Free Halogen light bulbs & Powerdown plug for those on qualifying Benefits.

gringo50

The company concerned is eaga and they work with the government.
http://www.eaga.com.
If you are in reciept of any of the followig Benefits you will qualify for 4 Halogen lightbulbs and a powerdown socket that you connect to your pc and when you shut it down it turns everything connected to it off aswell and it also protects from power surges. (it does say for use with a desktop pc only)
The qualifying Benefits are:

Income support

Housing benefit

Council tax benefit (not including single occupancy reduction)

Income based job seekers allowance

Attendance Allowance

Disability Allowance

Industrial injuries Allowance ( must include constant attendance allowance)

War Disablement pension (must include mobility supplement or constant attendance allowance)

Pension credit

Child tax credit ( where your income is £14,600 a year or less)

Working tax credit ( where your income is £14,600 a year or less)

If you are in Reciept of any of these Benefits then call: 0845 491 8655 and quote reference RF-HO1VM.

Hope this is of use to some.

Poppycat

I dont think you get halogen light bulbs only low energy bulbs (Philips) which you can get for for as little as 39p each. It can take over 6 months even in a quite period to get the work done. Never received a power down socket when I got the grant in the Summer I assume this may have changed

The work is based on the home and not on you so if you move you can reapply assuming you qualify on income and house needs the work. Bare in mind that once work is done depending on what is done you may not be able to get any more work done for many years

Getting CTC or WFTC may actually put you above the threshold, it did with us, only we got a very small amount of CT so we reapplied and got a grant for loft insulation only

gringo50

Poppycat
it is Halogen Dichroic Energy Saving GU 5.3 12 volt transformer fitting.
50W equivalent.
Saving upto £2** a year compared to a 50W standard halgen lightbulb.
Lifetime 5000 hours

Poppycat

They must have changed it I have had a grant twice in recent years, two houses and its always been low energy bulbs. I actually bought gu 5.3 halogen bulbs because the bulbs they supplied were of little use as must lights in house are non standard.

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/38773/Lighting/Lamps/12V-Halogen-Lamps/Philips-GU-5-3-Halogen-Dichroic-4000hrs-1-x-50W

Its a shame they still arent flexible as the bulbs may not be of any use to some houses

Smickan

Thank you very much

We've just sent off for the energy saving bulbs. You get to chose if you want halogen or energy saving ones.

autismmum

???? have looked on web and telephoned but no lightbulbs to be given out except if you need a grant... perhaps website now changed due to that??

Smickan

Not sure, we rang and talked to a lovely lady and confirmed what benefits we recieved.

Poppycat

I spoke to Warmfront just now. they are owned by Eaga and they dont give out this only two low energy bulbs

Tombo

What do you have to do on the site to claim the bulbs?
I can't a find a link on there.

kylieM_2

Income support is just one biggest Freebie of them all.

(and I am not talking about those who need Disability Allowance, Pension credits or those who ACTUALLY need it)

It gets my goat! Sorry

Poppycat

I have done a search on google and cant find any mention of this at all anywhere. Warmfront certainly don't do this, they do the grant work though, I got this confirmed twice unless the person on phone is lying or doesn't know about this.