The heating aid for the home and the energy supplement are granted to fully or partially cover the expenses for heating the home during the respective cold seasonsupport for cooking facilities and ensuring hot water in the home, ensuring continuity of power supply to electrical equipment on which a person's life depends, for health reasons, and the use of communication means that require energy.

The heating aid is granted to vulnerable consumers of centralized thermal energy, electricity, natural gas, solid and/or petroleum-based fuels. This is granted only for one heating system, which must be the main one used.

The energy supplement can be requested together with the heating aid or separately. It is granted cumulatively according to the energy supply sources used.

Beneficiaries: families and single persons who meet the following conditions:

- they actually live at the address for which they request this aid, are registered in the property registry and are considered when establishing housing maintenance expenses;

- they have income up to 1386 lei/family member in the case of families, or 2053 lei in the case of single persons;

- they do not own property included in the List of assets that lead to exclusion from social aid;

- they have the status of aid holder, which applies in the following situations:

· owner of the home;

· legal successor of the home owner;

· person who transferred the home under a sale-purchase agreement with maintenance clauses or with right of habitation;

· holder of a rental, commodate, or concession contract;

· another adult family member authorized by the home owner or by the rental contract holder;

· legal representative of the single person who does not have legal capacity (person under interdiction, etc.)

The heating aid is granted based on an application-declaration on one's own responsibility, accompanied by supporting documents regarding family composition, income obtained in the month preceding the application submission by its members, and the assets held, including in other administrative-territorial units.

When determining the monthly net income of the family or, as the case may be, of the single person, all the income that its members obtained in the month preceding the application submission is considered, including those from state social insurance rights, unemployment insurance, indemnities, allowances and permanent social assistance, regardless of the budget from which they are paid, legal maintenance obligations and other legal claims, with the exception of: family support allowance, state allowance for children, complementary personal budget and social benefits for disabled persons, school scholarships, educational incentive, financial supportgranted to students within the National Social Protection Program "Money for High School", income obtained from occasional activities performed by day laborers, occasional amounts granted from the state or local budget as compensation or financial support in exceptional situations.

Applications-declarations are submitted only once at the beginning of the season. A holder is legally entitled to only one heating aid, depending on the type of home heating (thermal energy, natural gas, electricity, solid or petroleum-based fuels).

If, during the cold season, families and single persons meet the conditions for granting the heating aid, the right is established starting from the month of application, if submitted by the 20th of the month.

Single persons and families who own property included in the list that leads to exclusion from heating aid, specified in Annex no.4 to HG 559/2017, do NOT benefit from heating aid or the energy supplement.