If you have a disability and need facilities or adaptations to your home, you may be eligible for a disabled facilities grant (DFG). Adaptations can include level access showers, stair-lifts, provision of ramps, adaptations for people with sight, speech and hearing impairments or with a mental disorder or impairment.

Quick check to see if a Cold Weather Payment is due in your location.

Shows if there's extra support that can make caring easier for you. This may include: 1. Carers holiday break fund. 2. Meeting carers groups. 3. Benefits advice and support through direct payments. 4. Carers emergency card.

1. Compensation for tenants who have lived with poor conditions and bad property management. 2. Punish the landlord for breaking the law, and deterrence from breaking the law again.

A rebate for electricity your oxygen concentrator uses. The company that supplies your concentrator can make payments to your bank account.

Emergency food parcels to customers with an immediate need, and referrals to other services across the borough. We also book appointments for residents to attend the Food Bank in Islington and some surrounding boroughs.

Budgeting and debt counselling service, which is particularly helpful for people who would benefit from free home visits.

Lets you compare your white goods (i.e. fridges, freezers, washing machines, kettles, microwave ovens, cooker, etc) with alternative models in the market on the basis of: 1. Energy efficiency ratings. 2. Lifetime costs (i.e. initial cash outlay + running costs).

It is a good idea to choose the most energy-efficient model for the size you need when you decide to replace your boiler or buying a new appliance such as a kettle, fridge freezer or washing machine.

1. Access schemes to support with gas, electricity and water bills. 2. Check if you can get any extra help through government payments or charitable grants.

If you’re having work done to your home, it’s worth thinking about improving insulation against heat loss.

Look into ways to make your home more energy efficient. This will reduce heat loss and save money on your bills.

1. Local authority grant to help disabled persons live an independent life. 2. You could use it to: - Make it easier to get in and out of your home by installing handrails or ramps. - Make your home safer by improving outdoor lighting. - Move more independently around your home by installing a stairlift or widening doors for wheelchair access. - Install a downstairs bathroom. - Improve your heating system or install a suitable one if you don’t have one - Make it safer or easier for you to use your garden.

One-off payment of £350 to help with the extra costs that living with cancer can bring. Can be used to help with things like energy bills, home adaptions, cost of travel to and from hospital, or any extra costs that arise due to cancer.

For council tenants, the council must fix small urgent problems in your home quickly if such problems could affect your health, safety or security.

1 If you are renting your home, remember that your landlord must carry out any structural repairs to the property unless you caused the damage. 2. If your tenancy started on or after 20 March 2019, then your landlord must make sure your home is fit to live in from the start of your tenancy until you leave.

1. Check for signs of damp, such as puddles on the window sill, damp patches, peeling wallpaper, black spotty mildew or water running down the walls. 2. You’ll need to identify the cause before treating it, which may mean improving your ventilation or heating, changing the way you dry clothes or getting damp-proofing treatment from a professional.

1. If you rent, your landlord has a legal duty to keep all electrical equipment and wiring safe and in proper working order throughout your tenancy. 2. If you own your home, get an inspection every 10 years.

The local fire and rescue service may be able to advise on fire prevention, and may fit smoke alarms in your home.

It is a good idea to buy a carbon monoxide alarm to alert you to the presence of carbon monoxide, which is a poisonous, invisible gas with no taste or smell. It can be produced by faulty gas appliances and solid-fuel appliances, such as an open fire or log-burning stove.

If your radiators aren’t heating up fully or are heating unevenly, it may be that they need bleeding. This is when you release air trapped in the radiator by opening the valve at the top.

Landlords must ensure that gas safety checks are carried out each year on all gas appliances and flues they’ve provided.

1. Back bills are sent by your energy supplier when they have not previously charged you accurately. 2. You cannot be charged for energy used more than 12 months ago if you have not been correctly billed for it before. This may not apply if you have behaved obstructively to prevent accurate billing.

1. Back bills are sent by your energy supplier when they have not previously charged you accurately. 2. You cannot be charged for energy used more than 12 months ago if you have not been correctly billed for it before. This may not apply if you have behaved obstructively to prevent accurate billing.

It will continue to accurately measure your energy usage. You can also take manual readings as you would do with your standard meter. Your supplier must take all reasonable steps to get a meter reading from you at least once a year. You can also give your supplier more regular readings by calling them.

A means to check what type of smart meter you have in your home. and if your smart meter is working in smart mode.

1. No separate charge for the smart meter or in-home display. 2. Under current arrangements, you pay for the cost of your meter and its maintenance through your energy bills.

Communications coverage is one of a range of technical and commercial reasons why your supplier may not offer you a smart meter just yet. But a range of technologies is being used in the rollout, not just mobile signals.

1. If you pay for the gas or electricity in your rented property, you can choose to have a smart meter. 2. Tell your landlord before you get one. That’s because there may be rules in your tenancy agreement about how energy is supplied to the property, including the type of meter that can be installed. 3. If your landlord pays the energy bills, the decision to get a smart meter is up to them. 4. If your tenancy agreement says you need your landlord’s permission to alter metering at your property, they should not unreasonably prevent it.

1. New and more flexible ways to top up, so you might not have to visit a shop. 2. In-home display shows your credit balance, so you won’t unknowingly run out. 3. Set your meter to top up automatically, so you won’t be left without power if you run out of credit at night or when the shops are shut. 4. No need to change meter if you switch between prepayment and credit tariffs.