According to Law no. 226/2021 regarding the establishment of social protection measures for the vulnerable energy consumer and the Methodological norms for application approved by GD no. 1073/2021, benefit from heating aid for the home during the cold season to fully or partially cover heating expenses, as well as an energy supplement throughout the year, the vulnerable consumers who meet the conditions.

The heating aid for the home is granted for a single system used for heating the home, during the cold season, declared by the single person or, as the case may be, by a family member who has full exercise capacity of civil rights and who becomes the holder of the aid.

Also, the heating aid is granted only for a single dwelling, namely for the domicile, or, as the case may be, the residence. The benefits provided are granted based on application and declaration on one's own responsibility accompanied mandatorily by supporting documents regarding the family composition, the incomes of its members, as well as documents proving the dwelling or the assets possessed by them.

In the application and declaration on one's own responsibility, the applicant for heating aid and the energy supplement has the obligation to mention the family composition, incomes earned, the identification elements of the supplier, client code and place of consumption, goods owned, rented, leased, loaned for use or held under another form, included in the list of goods leading to the exclusion from granting heating aid for the dwelling. Persons requesting aid for thermal energy are obliged to fill in the number of rooms of the dwelling.

The average net monthly income up to which heating aid is granted is 1,386 lei/person, in the case of a family, and 2,053 lei in the case of a single person.

Families and single persons who own at least one of the goods listed below do not benefit from heating aid for the home​

List of goods that lead to exclusion garnishment of heating aid for the home


A. Real estate goods

1. Buildings, other living spaces outside the home of domicile, as well as land located in built-up areas over 1,200 sqm in urban areas and 2,500 sqm in rural areas, excluding the land surrounding the house and the yard related to it.

B. Movable goods

1. More than one vehicle older than 10 years, with right of circulation on public roads.
2. Vehicle with the right of circulation on public roads less than 10 years old, except those used and/or adapted for the transportation of disabled persons.
3. Launches, motorboats, yachts, or other types of boats, except those necessary for transportation in the case of persons who live in the area of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve.


C. Bank deposits

1. At least one family member holds as an account holder, one or more bank deposits, the total amount of which is more than 3 times the value of the average gross salary gain provided by the State Social Insurance Law.

NOTE

OWNERSHIP OF ANY OF THE ABOVE-MENTIONED GOODS LEADS TO THE EXCLUSION FROM GRANTING HEATING AID FOR THE HOME