Heating aid for the home and energy supplement are granted to cover all or part of the expenses for home heating during the cold season and support for cooking facilities and provision of hot water in the home, ensuring the continuity of power supply to electrical equipment on which persons' lives depend, for health reasons, and use of communication tools that require energy consumption.

Heating aid for the home is granted to vulnerable consumers of central heating, electric energy, natural gas, solid and/or petroleum fuels. It is granted for only one heating system, this being the main one used.

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

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

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

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

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

- have the status of aid holders, which is found in the following situations:

· home owner;

· legal successor of the home owner;

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

· holder of lease, loan, or concession contract;

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

· legal representative of the single person without capacity of exercise (persons placed under interdiction, etc.)

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

In establishing the monthly net income of the family or, as the case may be, of the single person, all the incomes obtained by its members in the month prior to submitting the request are considered, including those from state social insurance rights, unemployment insurance, allowances, permanent grants and aid, regardless of the budget they are supported from, legal maintenance obligations and other legal claims, except for: 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 within the National Social Protection Program "High School Money", incomes obtained from occasional activities carried out by day laborers, occasional amounts granted from the state or local budgets with the character of compensation or financial support for exceptional situations.

Submission of requests-declarations is done only once at the beginning of the season. A beneficiary legally has the right to only one heating aid, according to the type of home heating (thermal energy, natural gas, electric energy, 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 entitlement is established starting from the month of submitting the request, if this is submitted before the 20th of the month.

Single persons and families that own assets 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 heating aid for the home and energy supplement.