The heating aid for the home and the energy supplement are granted to cover all or part of the expenses for heating the home during the respective cold seasonsupporting cooking facilities and ensuring hot water in the home, ensuring the continuity of supply of electrical equipment on which people's lives depend, for health reasons, and the use of communication means that require energy use.

The heating aid for the home is granted to vulnerable energy consumers using centralized thermal energy, electricity, natural gas, solid fuels and/or petroleum fuels. It is granted only for a single heating system, which is the main one used.

The energy supplement can be requested together with the heating aid for the home or separately. It is granted cumulatively depending on the sources of energy supply used.

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

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

- earn incomes up to 1386 lei/family member in the case of families, or 2053 lei in the case of single persons;

- do not possess goods included in the List of goods leading to exclusion from social aid;

- have the status of aid holder, status found in the following cases:

· owner of the home;

· legal successor of the home owner:

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

· lease, commodat, or concession contract holder;

· other adult family member authorized by the home owner or by the lease contract holder;

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

The heating aid for the home is granted based on a self-declaration request, accompanied by supporting documents regarding family composition, incomes earned in the month prior to submitting the request by its members, and the assets owned, including in other administrative-territorial units.

When establishing the net monthly income of the family or, as applicable, of the single person, all incomes earned by its members in the month prior to submitting the request are taken into account, including those from state social insurance, unemployment benefits, allowances, allocations and permanent assistance, regardless of the budget from which they are supported, 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 persons with disabilities, school scholarships, educational incentive, financial supportgranted to students as part of the national social protection program "High School Money", incomes obtained from occasional activities carried out by day laborers, occasional amounts granted from the state budget or local budgets as compensation or financial support for exceptional situations.

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

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

Single persons and families who possess goods included in the list leading to exclusion from granting heating aid for the home, provided in Annex no.4 to HG 559/2017, do NOT benefit from home heating aid and energy supplement.