{"id":9567,"date":"2021-12-12T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2021-12-12T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T16:06:03","slug":"child-winter-heating-assistance-extends-for-16-18-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/2021\/12\/12\/child-winter-heating-assistance-extends-for-16-18-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Winter Heating Assistance extends for 16-18 year olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Child Winter Heating Assistance extends for 16-18 year olds<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Child Winter Heating Assistance is a benefit from the Scottish Government. It was first paid in 2020 for children under 16yrs old.\u00a0 It\u2019s a payment to help disabled children and young people and their families with increased heating costs over winter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s paid once a year. <strong>The payment for winter 2021-2022 is \u00a3202.<\/strong><br \/>\nPayments are usually made from November onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Children and young people in Scotland can get the assistance if they&#8217;re under 19 years old and get one of the following &#8216;qualifying benefits&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>the highest rate of the care component of Child Disability Payment<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>the highest rate of the care component of Disability Living Allowance for children<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>the enhanced daily living rate of Personal Independence Payment<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They must be getting this on at least one day in the third full week of September.\u00a0 In 2021 this was Monday 20 September to Sunday 26 September.<\/p>\n<p>For further information see factsheet &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov.scot\/asset-storage\/production\/downloads\/Child-Winter-Heating-Assistance-Factsheet-English-web.pdf\">https:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov.scot\/asset-storage\/production\/downloads\/Child-Winter-Heating-Assistance-Factsheet-English-web.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or contact Julie our Financial Inclusion Officer for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Julie McCall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tel:<\/strong> 07584 490 511<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:julie.mccall@east-ayrshire.gov.uk\">julie.mccall@east-ayrshire.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &nbsp; Child Winter Heating Assistance extends for 16-18 year olds Child Winter Heating Assistance is a benefit from the Scottish Government. It was first paid in 2020 for children under 16yrs old.\u00a0 It\u2019s a payment to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/2021\/12\/12\/child-winter-heating-assistance-extends-for-16-18-year-olds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-inclusion-support"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9568,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/hurlfordpsecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}