{
  "dataset": "vouchers",
  "generated": "2026-08-28T19:05:57.722Z",
  "licence": {
    "compilation": "CC BY 4.0",
    "compilation_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "Tariff Tracker, tarifftracker.io, published by PEF Consulting Partners Limited",
    "underlying": "The figures themselves belong to the bodies named in each dataset's sources. Most are Crown copyright under the Open Government Licence v3. Supplier tariff rates belong to the suppliers who publish them. Check the source terms before you rely on any of it commercially.",
    "corrections": "If a figure here is wrong, say so and we will correct it and record that we did."
  },
  "docs": "https://tarifftracker.io/api/",
  "fields": "https://tarifftracker.io/api/v1/dictionary",
  "as_of": "2026-08-28",
  "shop_codes": [],
  "shop_codes_status": "empty until a checked feed exists",
  "shop_codes_note": "We do not list scraped voucher codes that might not work. Half the voucher sites online are full of expired and made up codes, and a code that fails at the till is worse than no code at all. When we connect a checked feed, real shop codes land here with the shop, the saving and the date they expire, and not before. Until then this space is honestly empty.",
  "full_list": "https://tarifftracker.io/help/",
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "Help with your bills, this site",
      "url": "https://tarifftracker.io/help/"
    }
  ],
  "caveats": [
    "These are the headline claimable schemes. The full list, with the exact eligibility for each, is on the help with bills page.",
    "Amounts are the maximums or the standard figures. What you personally get depends on your income, your nation and your circumstances.",
    "Several schemes differ across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and each card says where it applies.",
    "Shop voucher codes are switched off until we have a checked feed, rather than filled with codes that might not work."
  ],
  "blanks": {
    "amount_note": "The amount stands on its own.",
    "who_sets_it": "Not stated.",
    "nations": "Not broken down by nation.",
    "how_to_claim": "Not stated in short form; see the help page.",
    "official_link": "No single official link; see the sources on the help page."
  },
  "count": 17,
  "rows": [
    {
      "id": "healthy-start",
      "name": "Healthy Start food vouchers",
      "amount": "£4.65 to £9.30 a week",
      "amount_note": "per child, on a prepaid card, for milk, fruit, vegetables, pulses and infant formula",
      "group": "childcare",
      "who_sets_it": "NHS Business Services Authority",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "different",
        "scotland": "different",
        "ni": "different"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Universal Credit claimants apply online. Pension Credit claimants, and under 18s who are pregnant, apply by email to healthy.start@nhsbsa.nhs.uk or by phone on 0300 330 7010. The money lands on a prepaid card every four weeks.",
      "official_link": "https://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "childcare-money",
      "name": "Tax Free Childcare and the Universal Credit childcare element",
      "amount": "Up to £2,000 or £1,836 a month",
      "amount_note": "depending which one you use",
      "group": "childcare",
      "who_sets_it": "HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Tax Free Childcare is an online account with HMRC. The Universal Credit element is claimed through your Universal Credit account, and you usually have to pay first and claim back.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/tax-free-childcare",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "funded-childcare",
      "name": "Funded childcare hours",
      "amount": "Up to 30 hours a week",
      "amount_note": "for 38 weeks of the year in England",
      "group": "childcare",
      "who_sets_it": "Department for Education and your local authority",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "different",
        "scotland": "different",
        "ni": "different"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Apply through the government childcare service, now at Best Start in Life. You get a code to give your provider.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/free-childcare-if-working",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "warm-home-discount",
      "name": "Warm Home Discount",
      "amount": "£150",
      "amount_note": "taken off your electricity bill. The money is not paid to you.",
      "group": "energy",
      "who_sets_it": "Set by government, applied by your electricity supplier",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "no",
        "ni": "no"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "In England and Wales you do not apply. Suppliers are told who qualifies and the discount appears on the bill. If you think you qualify and hear nothing by the time the scheme reopens, ring the Warm Home Discount helpline before contacting your supplier.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/the-warm-home-discount-scheme",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "cold-weather-payment",
      "name": "Cold Weather Payment",
      "amount": "£25",
      "amount_note": "for each seven day cold spell",
      "group": "energy",
      "who_sets_it": "Department for Work and Pensions",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "no",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Automatic. There is nothing to apply for.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/cold-weather-payment",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "council-tax-reduction",
      "name": "Council Tax Reduction",
      "amount": "Up to 100% off",
      "amount_note": "your council tax bill",
      "group": "counciltax",
      "who_sets_it": "Your council in England, the Scottish Government in Scotland, the Welsh Government in Wales",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "different"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Apply to your council. Every council has its own form.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-council-tax-reduction",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "council-tax-disregards",
      "name": "Single person discount and other disregards",
      "amount": "25% or 50% off",
      "amount_note": "or the whole bill in an all student household",
      "group": "counciltax",
      "who_sets_it": "Your council",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "no"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Apply to your council. None of these are applied automatically, even where the council could work it out.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/who-has-to-pay",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "water-social-tariff",
      "name": "Your water company's social tariff",
      "amount": "Roughly 15% to 99% off",
      "amount_note": "the range across companies, and it varies enormously",
      "group": "water",
      "who_sets_it": "Each water company, on its own terms",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "no",
        "ni": "no"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Find your company, then go to its own help with your bill page and apply there. The schemes have different names: WaterHelp at Thames, the Big Difference Scheme at Severn Trent, WaterSupport at Yorkshire, Help to Pay and the Low Income Water Discount at United Utilities, HelpU at Welsh Water.",
      "official_link": "https://www.ccw.org.uk/save-money-and-water/help-with-bills/",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "watersure",
      "name": "WaterSure",
      "amount": "Your bill capped",
      "amount_note": "at your own company's average household bill, so there is no single national figure",
      "group": "water",
      "who_sets_it": "Your water company, under a statutory scheme in England",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "different",
        "scotland": "no",
        "ni": "no"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Apply direct to your own water company. There is no central application and no government form.",
      "official_link": "https://www.ccw.org.uk/faq/what-is-watersure/",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "free-prescriptions",
      "name": "Free prescriptions and help with NHS costs",
      "amount": "£9.90 an item",
      "amount_note": "in England. Free everywhere else in the United Kingdom.",
      "group": "nhs",
      "who_sets_it": "NHS Business Services Authority",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "no",
        "scotland": "no",
        "ni": "no"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Automatic exemptions need nothing. Medical and maternity certificates come through your GP, midwife or health visitor. The Low Income Scheme uses form HC1.",
      "official_link": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/help-nhs-prescription-costs/free-nhs-prescriptions",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "nhs-low-income-scheme",
      "name": "NHS Low Income Scheme",
      "amount": "Full or partial help",
      "amount_note": "with prescriptions, dentistry, sight tests, glasses and travel to hospital",
      "group": "nhs",
      "who_sets_it": "NHS Business Services Authority",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Fill in form HC1 with proof of income, savings and housing costs. You cannot apply online if you have over £6,000 in savings, or from Northern Ireland.",
      "official_link": "https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-low-income-scheme",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "broadband-social-tariff",
      "name": "Broadband and mobile social tariffs",
      "amount": "From £12 a month",
      "amount_note": "for broadband, and from £10 a month for mobile",
      "group": "broadband",
      "who_sets_it": "Broadband and mobile providers, listed by Ofcom",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Check Ofcom's list, find one available at your address, and ask that provider to move you. You do not have to wait for your contract to end.",
      "official_link": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/saving-money/social-tariffs/",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "tv-licence-help",
      "name": "TV licence concessions",
      "amount": "Free, £90 or £7.50",
      "amount_note": "against a standard fee of £180",
      "group": "tvlicence",
      "who_sets_it": "TV Licensing",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Apply to TV Licensing directly.",
      "official_link": "https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/reducedfee",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "travel-help",
      "name": "Cheaper travel",
      "amount": "A third to a half off",
      "amount_note": "rail, and free bus travel for some groups",
      "group": "travel",
      "who_sets_it": "Rail Delivery Group, Jobcentre Plus and the four nations' transport bodies",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Railcards are bought online. The Jobcentre Plus card is issued by your work coach rather than bought. Bus passes come from your council or transport body.",
      "official_link": "https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/railcards/concessionary-travel/",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "pension-credit",
      "name": "Pension Credit",
      "amount": "Tops you up to £238 a week",
      "amount_note": "single, or £363.25 for a couple, for 2026 to 2027",
      "group": "gateway",
      "who_sets_it": "Department for Work and Pensions",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Apply online, or ring 0800 99 1234, or post it Freepost. You can start four months before you reach State Pension age.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/pension-credit",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "help-to-save",
      "name": "Help to Save, a 50% savings bonus",
      "amount": "Up to £1,200 in bonuses",
      "amount_note": "a 50p bonus for every £1 saved, over four years",
      "group": "debt",
      "who_sets_it": "HM Revenue and Customs",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "yes",
        "scotland": "yes",
        "ni": "yes"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Open the account online through gov.uk or the HMRC app. The account runs for four years and you can take money out, though withdrawing lowers the balance the bonus is worked out on.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/get-help-savings-low-income",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    },
    {
      "id": "crisis-resilience-fund",
      "name": "Crisis and Resilience Fund",
      "amount": "Varies by council",
      "amount_note": "crisis payments and housing payments, set locally",
      "group": "gateway",
      "who_sets_it": "Your council, funded by government",
      "nations": {
        "england": "yes",
        "wales": "no",
        "scotland": "no",
        "ni": "no"
      },
      "how_to_claim": "Apply to your own council. Every council in England has to run a scheme that accepts applications all year round, with at least two ways to apply, so online, by phone or in person.",
      "official_link": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/crisis-and-resilience-fund-guidance-for-local-authorities-in-england-1-april-2026-to-31-march-2029/the-crisis-and-resilience-fund-guidance-for-local-authorities-in-england-1-april-2026-to-31-march-2029",
      "page": "https://tarifftracker.io/vouchers/"
    }
  ]
}