Update on the Household Support Fund administered by Warwickshire’s Local Welfare Scheme

As you will be aware, between October 2021 and March 2022 Warwickshire’s Local Welfare Scheme distributed one off grant funding of £3.4 million to vulnerable families and individuals to help with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials as the country continues its recovery from the pandemic.  

Through the Household Support Fund, the Local Welfare Scheme will once again be distributing automatic support towards fuel and food costs to parents/carers of children in Warwickshire schools/settings who are eligible for benefits related FSM  

They will be receiving the following in the form of automatic voucher payments:  

• For the May half term school holiday, an automatic Huggg supermarket voucher will be issued to parents/carers to the value of £15 per eligible child for the 5 days.
• In June, we will once again support benefits related FSM eligible households with an automatic PayPoint cash voucher to be used towards energy costs.   
• We will follow the same process as previously and will send out letters to you this week to share with parents/carers.   
• We can confirm that we will not need schools to send in updated pupil data.  If you do have any queries, please email the Local Welfare Scheme Mailbox at localwelfarescheme@warwickshire.gov.uk