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

The home heating aid is granted for vulnerable consumers of district heating, electricity, natural gas, solid and/or liquid fuels. It is granted only for one heating system, which is the main one used.

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

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 for establishing the housing maintenance expenses;

- have incomes of 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 listed in the List of goods leading to the exclusion of social aid;

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

· owner of the home;

· the legal successor of the owner of the home;

· person who transferred the home based on a sale-purchase contract with maintenance clauses or with occupancy rights;

· holder of a lease, loan for use, or concession contract;

· another adult family member empowered by the owner of the home or the holder of the lease contract;

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

The home heating aid is granted based on an application-declaration on one's own responsibility, accompanied by supporting documents regarding the composition of the family, the incomes achieved in the month prior to the application by its members, and the owned goods, including in other administrative-territorial units.

When determining the net monthly income of the family or, as the case may be, of the single person, all incomes received by its members in the month prior to the application are taken into account, including those from state social insurance rights, unemployment insurance, indemnities, allowances and permanent aid, regardless of the budget they are supported from, legal maintenance obligations and other legal claims, with the exception of: family support allowance, state allowance for children, personal complementary budget and social benefits for persons with disabilities, school scholarships, educational incentive, financial supportgranted to students within the National program of social protection "High school money", income obtained from occasional activities performed by day laborers, occasional amounts granted from the state or local budget as compensation or financial support for exceptional situations.

The submission of application-declarations is done only once, at the beginning of the season. A holder is not legally entitled to more than one heating aid, according to the type of home heating (district heating, natural gas, electricity, solid or liquid fuels).

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

Single persons and families who own goods included in the list that leads to the exclusion of granting the home heating aid, as provided in Annex no.4 to HG 559/2017, DO NOT benefit from home heating aid and energy supplement.