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Retired people's help with heating?
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My grandmother's central heating system is becoming increasingly expensive for her to run and I wondered if there is any help out there for her.
I don't know her financial situation in detail. I thought she would be on pension credit but she says she is on income support. Her home is housing association.
She spends most of her time in two adjacent rooms. There is a gas fire in one of them which she could use instead of heating the whole house but she is too frightened to use it because it has been out of use for so long.
Does anybody know if the elderly can get any help with their gas appliances or anything else she might be entitled to? Failing that, how we can go about arranging a service or check of the fire?
She will accept "what she is entitled to and no more", but she is very scared of filling in forms incorrectly and getting into trouble, and she hates taking any financial help from her family members.
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
I don't know her financial situation in detail. I thought she would be on pension credit but she says she is on income support. Her home is housing association.
She spends most of her time in two adjacent rooms. There is a gas fire in one of them which she could use instead of heating the whole house but she is too frightened to use it because it has been out of use for so long.
Does anybody know if the elderly can get any help with their gas appliances or anything else she might be entitled to? Failing that, how we can go about arranging a service or check of the fire?
She will accept "what she is entitled to and no more", but she is very scared of filling in forms incorrectly and getting into trouble, and she hates taking any financial help from her family members.
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
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