Granted for covering all or part of the expenses related to heating the home during the cold season.

Types of aid:

- aid for heating the home with thermal energy;

- aid for heating the home with natural gas;

- aid for heating the home with electricity;

- aid for heating the home with solid or petroleum fuels.

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Beneficiaries:

Families and single persons who meet the following conditions:

- actually live at the address for which they request this aid, are registered in the property book and are taken into account in establishing the housing maintenance expenses;

- earn income up to 1386 lei/family member in the case of a family, or 2053 lei in the case of a single person;

- do not own goods included in the List of goods that lead to exclusion from granting social aid;

- are holders of the aid, a status that can be found in the following situations:

· owner of the home;

· legal successor of the home owner;

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

· holder of a lease, commodatum, or concession contract;

· another adult family member authorized by the home owner or by the holder of the lease agreement;

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

Granting of the right

The aid for heating the home is granted based on an application-declaration on one's own responsibility, accompanied by supporting documents regarding the composition of the family, the income earned in the month prior to submitting the application by its members, and the goods owned, including in other administrative-territorial units. When establishing the family's or, as the case may be, the single person's monthly net income, all income earned is taken into account, including that from state social insurance rights, unemployment insurance, allowances, allocations and permanent aids, regardless of the budget from which they are covered, legal maintenance obligations and other legal claims, except for the amounts provided for in art.8 para.1 of Law 416/2001 regarding the guaranteed minimum income.

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Required documents:
- copies of the identity documents of all family members;

- copy of documents attesting the status of heating aid holder (property deed, lease contract, legal authorization, etc.);

- copies of registration certificates for owned vehicles (where applicable);
- supporting documents regarding the income earned in the month prior to submitting the application (salary certificate stating YES/NO meal vouchers, vacation vouchers, pension vouchers, unemployment vouchers, etc.); for persons who have no income or whose amount cannot be proven otherwise, a notarized statement must be submitted for this purpose;

- certificate issued by the owners'/tenants' association regarding the number and names of persons actually living at the address where heating aid is requested (for applicants who submit the application individually);
- copy of the last natural gas/electricity bill (for persons requesting heating aid with gas or electricity).

Submission of application-declarations is done 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 fuels). If families and single persons meet the conditions for granting heating aid for the home during the cold season, the right to heating aid for the home is established starting from the month the application is submitted, if it is submitted by the 20th of the month. Single persons and families who own goods included in the list of those that lead to the exclusion of heating aid for the home, provided in Annex no.4 to HG 559/2017, DO NOT benefit from heating aid for the home.