Warm Front Grants

John_T_5

black-saturn wrote:

Try going to see people at your local housing office, environmental health or Income Support. They might be able to offer her a crisis loan to pay for it which she can pay back interest free at a very small amount per week.

If she is on those benefits though I cannot imagine her not being able to save for a little while and pay for it.

Thanks, I think I will have to suggest to her applying for a crisis loan, I am not sure how she could be expected to save £1200 pounds on the benefits she receives and she really doesn't have the option of saving that sort of money over a short space of time, and the matter is very urgent.

John_T_5

ritaing wrote:

Hi just reading your post about warm front 2 years ago we had central heating put in by warm front best thing we ever did. I was in doctors surgery this morning and i saw a leaflet about warm front you may get one from your local surgery but i found a freephone no which is customer care they may send a leaflet out to you. If its a pensioner on housing benefit or low income you qualify. The no is 0800 183 1051 hope this helps.

Rita.

Thanks for the help but she has already been in contact with Warm Front run by EAGA which is the problem as they want an exorbitant excess charge for the work, which seems to defeat the purpose of trying to help out those in need, if they had £1200 pounds to spare they really wouldn't be in need.

ritaing

Hi again Warm Front and Stay Warm are two different things staywarm are a utility gas and electicity warm front do insulation and central heating for people on benefits ok. Rita.

John_T_5

Sorry I did mean to say Warm Front.

lin473

JohnT - Could your neighbour have the six radiators put in and not heat the other rooms?
(Presumably spare bedrooms?)
She would still be miles better than she is at present and it should cover all the rooms she regularly uses.

John_T_5

She would still be left with a bill for £800 if she didn't get additional radiators installed, and having no heating in the other rooms would probably not be a good idea, houses around here can be prone damp, the heating keeps it at bay.