{"id":2382,"date":"2022-05-05T14:24:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T13:25:06","slug":"household-benefits-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/household-benefits-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Benefits Package"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">The Household Benefits Package (HBP) helps with the cost of your electricity or gas bill and the TV licence. Only one person in a household can get the Package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">You can get the Household Benefits Package if you are&nbsp;<strong>aged 70 or over<\/strong>. You do not need to be getting a State pension and the package is not means tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">People&nbsp;<strong>under 70<\/strong>&nbsp;can also get the HBP, but additional rules apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">The Household Benefits Package has multiple ways people can receive help with their household bills such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size wp-block-list\"><li>Electricity allowance<\/li><li>Gas allowance<\/li><li>TV License Allowance<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensinformation.ie\/en\/social_welfare\/social_welfare_payments\/extra_social_welfare_benefits\/household_benefits_package.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.citizensinformation.ie\/en\/social_welfare\/social_welfare_payments\/extra_social_welfare_benefits\/household_benefits_package.html\" rel=\"noopener\">You can find more information of the Households Benefits Package (HBP) by clicking here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Household Benefits Package (HBP) helps with the cost of your electricity or gas bill and the TV licence. Only one person in a household can get the Package. You &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9998,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agefriendlyhomes.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}