Warm home discount disability discrimination:

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How many disabled people are abandoned that are eligible for warm home discount because their property is labelled as a low scoring property but they have disability adaptions that are connected to the mains electricity outlets and therefore can't get pre payment meters as they'd run out constantly...


I'm £400 in debit with my property and hardly ever put the heating on because I can't afford to, dealing instead with pain management and small electric heaters when needed.


In this cold weather I put the heating on for little bits despite being in debit with my company because being disabled I have chronic pain and I'm left shaking and crying in my home and have to up my pain management.


Is this not in breach of disability discrimination legislation and how many other disabled people are suffering because they have to have adaptations that rapidly increase their cost of gas and electricity and yet because they're eligible for the warm home discount they don't receive it because their property is labelled as a low scoring property?


This needs to change.


Sarah 

Independent disability advocate.




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