The WaterSure scheme (formerly the vulnerable household scheme) is intended to help you if you have a water meter installed and you have difficulties paying for your water charges because you need to use a lot of water or are on a low income.
The scheme only operates in England and Wales.
To get help under the WaterSure scheme you or anyone else living with you has to be:
(a) entitled to receive one or more of the following:
and either,
(b) be entitled to receive child benefit for three or more children under the age of nineteen who reside in the premises or
(c) diagnosed as suffering from, or has a child under nineteen who resides in the premises diagnosed as suffering from one or more of the following -
Contact your local water supplier.
You can find information about and links to all UK water companies at www.water-guide.org.uk.
The Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) has published a report on "Water affordability in England and Wales" available to download at http://php.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/1197/.
www.disabilityalliance.org - 11 June 2009