Household Support Fund

The Government has made an extra £842 million of additional funding available to help the most vulnerable across England, totalling over £2 billion of funding allocated to Local Authorities over the past 18 months.

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About the Household Support Fund (HSF) and how to apply

The Household Support Fund is provided by the Department for Work and Pensions to support those most in need. This fund can be used to help households with children, households with pensioners and other households, with the cost of:

  • food
  • energy and water needs
  • essentials linked to energy and water
  • wider essentials, where appropriate, such as housing costs and other essential bills.

Monies from the fund can be used to help different people on low incomes, depending on their eligibility.

Automatic support payments

Support is now available from December 2023 to March 2024.

Who can apply

You will be eligible for one payment, which will be made automatically, if you are in receipt of council tax support and:

  • your property has an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of F, G or H, and a member of your household is disabled, or
  • you or your partner are aged between 18-24 and you are responsible for paying council tax.

How much will I receive?

Eligible households will receive a payment of £350 by the end of January 2024.

Apply for support payments

Applications for payments are open from Monday 4 December 2023 and will close 26 January 2024.

Only one application per household.

Please note: If you have previously applied, you are not eligible to make another claim.

Working households

You would be eligible to make an application for support if:

  • you are an East Riding resident (you receive a council tax bill from East Riding of Yorkshire Council)
  • you are working, but not in receipt of any benefits, and
  • your income is below £28,000 per year for single households and under £33,000 per year for other households, and
  • you have under £6,000 in savings or in a bank account.

Unpaid carer households

You would be eligible to make an application for support if:

  • you are an East Riding resident (you receive a council tax bill from East Riding of Yorkshire Council)
  • you are an unpaid adult carer and the person you care for is in receipt of a disability payment, and
  • your income is below £28,000 per year for single households and under £33,000 per year for other households, and
  • you have under £6,000 in savings or in a bank account.

Please note: if you apply for this funding, you allow this information to be passed to our carers' service. The service will contact you to make sure you are registered within the East Riding as a carer, to offer further support.

Eligible households will receive a payment of £350 within 20 days of making an application.

Apply to the Household Support Fund

If you are unable to complete the form yourself, and do not have anyone to help you, our advisors can help. Please call (01482) 393939.

Healthy Homes

The Healthy Homes scheme can provide money to help toward the cost of repair, or replacement, of your household’s heating system. The scheme is available for both owner occupiers, and private tenants who are responsible for repairing the property’s heating system. Households must be in receipt of a benefit (as listed below) and with a household member suffering from a long-term health condition.

Who can apply

You may be eligible for a Healthy Homes payment if someone in your household has a long-term health condition which is made worse by the cold or damp, and you are in receipt of any of the following benefits:

  • pension credit (guarantee)
  • Income Support
  • Employment and Support Allowance (income related)
  • Universal Credit
  • Working Tax or Child Tax Credit with a total household income less than £31,000
  • PIP/DLA with a total household income less than £31,000

How to apply

To apply you can:

You may need to provide evidence of your income and the health condition that affects the member of your household.

How the scheme works

The council will get quotes from contractors for the required work, which can't start until everything has been approved and agreed. Payments can't be made for any work done before this, or for any work done by a non-approved contractor. Once the council appointed contractor has completed the work, to the required standard, they will be paid directly.

Free school meals

If you get free school meals for your child(ren), your school will provide you with a supermarket voucher for each of the school holidays.

Food banks

Food banks work with the local authority and other services, such as Citizens Advice, health services, or community charities, to provide food parcels for those most in need, in exchange for issued vouchers. Each food parcel contains a minimum of 3 days' worth of tinned and dried food.

Your local Children's Centre can help you access a food bank service:

Find your local Children's Centre

You can find your nearest food bank using the East Riding Food Poverty Alliance (ERFPA) map:

Find your nearest food bank on the ERFPA website

Previous spend on Household Support Fund schemes

The council needs to publish our previous spend for the three previous Household Support Fund schemes. You can access the spending figures on the Excel spreadsheet below:

Household Support Fund Spending - July 2023 (excel 36kb)

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The Household Support Fund aims to help vulnerable households in the East Riding with the rising cost of heating oil. The grants, available through the Humber & Wolds Rural Action (HWRA) website, will support eligible low income households.

Please note that this fund is only available to East Riding residents.

To find out if you are eligible, and to apply for a grant:

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