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To: Prime Minister

Reverse cuts to Warm Home Discount

Reverse cuts to Warm Home Discount.

Why is this important?

The eligibility criteria for receipt of Warm Home Discount, you could apply to gas and/or electricity bills and formerly covering the needs of a broad spectrum of especially vulnerable people, are being ever more restricted.

The decision as to whom is eligible for WHD has been removed from Gas/Electricity companies and we must now await a 'government' letter as to whether we are deserving, or not.

{Also, whether 'benefits' are increased in line with wages or prices is clearly immaterial if one has been excluded.]

This is a further cruel and unnecessary austerity aimed at pensioners, people with disabilities, lone parents with a disabled child / children and others. Please pass on this petition. Thank you.

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Updates

2023-01-26 10:32:22 +0000

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…

2022-11-23 12:23:34 +0000

Hello I've just watched the #CostOfLivingFilm from @GreenpeaceUK and @NEF.

How many of us, particularly, can wait until 2025 for extra funding to insulate our homes and for the regime to STOP wasting money on wrong / lost causes...

@RishiSunak what will you do about this? https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceUK/status/1595005541356478464

This update is because [in the rhetoric...] "we are all in this together." When it suits them. It's global. And YES... it's a conspiracy... Are you with us?

2022-09-21 12:17:03 +0100

As you will see this petition was started ~ 5 years ago! Thank you kindly to all supporters.

Events just go to show that things can only get worse. For my part I have just been advised by my new utility 'saviour' (the old one went bust) that things "are ran differently this year" (sic) It seems the 'government' is now to decide the 'award' of rosettes in some kind of political beauty contest as to whom is, or more likely is not, eligible for WHD.

Now more than ever it is time to step up and garner more signatures for this petition. Whilst the sentiment broadcast from on high is that 'we must all now come together' - it is the 'sheep and goats / deserving and undeserving' beloved of the tory tendency for centuries that is actually being enacted. If we are to be a society of humanity and compassion, even for people at 'home' in this country this nasty ideology must be opposed. Thank you.

2017-05-20 09:24:40 +0100

Thanks for signing. Warm Home Discount has been slashed ~ and now the Tories are in turmoil over the winter fuel payment.

We can win this! This is a further austerity aimed at not-so-well-off pensioners, people with disabilities, lone parents with disabled children and others. Real change happens when people stand up for what we believe in. Please share on Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn etc.

http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/reverse-cuts-to-warm-home-discount

2017-05-05 01:17:01 +0100

100 signatures reached

2017-05-04 11:51:13 +0100

50 signatures reached

2017-04-08 15:53:03 +0100

25 signatures reached

2017-03-31 13:35:30 +0100

10 signatures reached