ECO4 Flex improvement measures and survey

As your chosen installer we will carry out a survey and identify a package of improvements suitable for your property and will make the necessary arrangements for the installation of the energy efficiency measures.

Please Note -Boiler Grant Qualifying Criteria is now only relevant to the Replacement of Non – Condensing boilers which tend to be at least 15 years old. If you provide us with the manufacturer and model number, in most cases we will be able to confirm quickly, if the existing boiler is Non-Condensing.

ECO4 Flex referral routes

The main objective of ECO4 is to improve the least energy efficient housing stock occupied by low income and vulnerable households. Only a single route can be used to identify the household meets the ‘ECO4 Local Authority Flexibility’ criteria. There are four separate routes to identify low income and vulnerable households under ECO4 LA Flex scheme.

Prior to identifying and evidencing a household for ECO4 Flex, the LA must ensure that the property is a private domestic premises for which the pre-project standard assessment procedure (SAP) band is:

D, E, F or G for owner-occupied homes
E, F or G for privately rented homes
Further, under route 2, proxy targeting, below, regardless of the tenure, only SAP band E, F or G are eligible.

Route 1: Household income

• SAP bands D to G owner-occupied households and private rented sector E to G households with a total gross income less than £31,000. This cap applies irrespective of the property size, composition, or region. Sources of income, including both non means tested and means tested benefits.

Route 2: Proxy targeting

• SAP bands E-G for owner-occupied households and private rented sector households that meet a combination of two of the following proxies:
• England in Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) 1 to 3
• Welsh provision LSOA 1 to 3 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019
• Index of Multiple Deprivation for 2020, published by the Scottish government
• . Proxy 1 includes homes in:
• Proxy 2: Householders receiving a Council Tax reduction (based on low income only).
• Proxy 3: Householders vulnerable to living in a cold home as identified in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance. Only one from the list can be used, excludes the proxy ‘low income’.
• Proxy 4: A householder receiving free school meals due to low income.
• Proxy 5: A householder supported by a LA run scheme that has been named and described by the LA as supporting low income and vulnerable households for the purposes of NICE guidelines.
• Proxy 6: A household referred to the LA for support by their energy supplier or Citizen’s Advice or Citizen’s Advice Scotland, because they’ve been identified as struggling to pay their electricity and gas bills.
• *Proxies 1 and 3 and cannot be used in combination with each other.

Route 3: NHS referrals

• SAP bands D to G owner-occupied households and private rented sector E to G households that have been identified by either a person registered in the General Practitioner Register, a Scottish Health Board, a Welsh Health Board, an NHS Foundation Trust, or an NHS Trust as vulnerable, with an occupant whose health conditions may be impacted further by living in a cold home.

These health conditions may be:

• cardiovascular
• respiratory
• immunosuppressed
• limited mobility related

Route 4: Bespoke targeting

• SAP band D to G owner-occupied households and private rented sector E to G households that are referred under route 4: bespoke targeting.
• Suppliers and LAs can submit an application to Department for Energy Security and Net Zero(ESNZ) where they have identified a low income and vulnerable household, who are not already eligible under the exiting routes.