The energy upgrade scheme can provide thousands of euro in upgrades leading to a warmer home, lower bills and a more valuable property
The free energy upgrade scheme aims to improve the energy efficiency and warmth of homes owned by those at risk of energy poverty. Photograph: iStockOur weekly personal finance newsletter will give you the insight you need to save money and make smart spending decisionsThe free upgrade works are available to recipients of certain welfare payments who live in their own home, provided it was built and occupied before 2006. It doesn’t have to have been occupied by you since then, just occupied.
The higher over-70s fuel allowance means test disregard is being extended to people aged 66 and over, as part of Heather Humphries’ Budget 2025 social protection package. Fuel Allowance is a means-tested payment. If you already get a means-tested payment, you have already satisfied the means test and it does not need to be done again.
Some 5,255 households have benefited from the free energy upgrade scheme so far this year, says the Department of the Environment and Climate. Recipients of the Domiciliary Care Allowance have also benefited. This is a non-means-tested payment for those caring for a child under the age of 16 who has additional needs. It is not based on a particular type of disability, but rather the level of physical or mental impairment which results in the child needing “substantially more care and attention than another child of the same age”, according to the criteria.
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