As suspected this the latest 'government' is gleefully embracing an ever more restrictive definition as to whom is eligible for Warm Home Discount. The buzz word is 'targeting' ~ protection for the supposedly separate tax payer ~ we are all ordinary humans but are increasingly being divided into sheep and goats; now it's all to do with whether you 'previously qualified' for rigged 'entitlement.' Many previously 'deserving' people are being systematically airbrushed by this regime, consigned by tick box 'expendable.'
Personally, I think that basic social tariffs whereby everyone has enough kWhr to cook a meal and have a bath should have been implemented by now and immediately should be brought in. It's certainly cold in here but even colder out there.
Those requiring to tropically heat their mansions (above and beyond) so as to be able to continue to cavort in their negligibles can then enjoy paying the full cost of their antisocial and anti-planet behaviours…