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Worcestershire: Household Support Fund & Crisis and Resilience Fund

What Worcestershire’s local crisis scheme covers, how to apply, and whether it was open when we checked.

Written by the benefitmoney.co.uk editorial team · Last reviewed 15 September 2026

What Worcestershire’s scheme covers

Covers: food energy household items housing vouchers

Covers

Crisis payments (cash, energy and supermarket vouchers, household goods); housing payments (rent, deposits, removals); heating oil and LPG emergency support and heating repairs; and money advice

Status

Open — crisis payments, housing payments, resilience services and community coordination are all running (confirmed 15 September 2026)

Funding period

Three years to 31 March 2029

What you get

May include cash payments, energy vouchers, supermarket vouchers, or essential household goods

Who qualifies

For low-income households

How to apply

Contact your local Worcestershire Advice Network partner (Citizens Advice, Age UK or DIAL/Daisy), or your district council

Government allocation

£6,527,725 for 2026-27

Before you apply

1. Use the right route. Apply through your district council or a Worcestershire Advice Network partner (Citizens Advice, Age UK or DIAL); heating oil and LPG support is via Act on Energy
2. Check it is still open. Open — crisis payments, housing payments, resilience services and community coordination are all running We confirmed this on 15 September 2026.

Only what Worcestershire states on its own page. Other councils ask for more — see what they have in common.

The 6 district councils in Worcestershire

In Worcestershire the county council runs crisis payments, but your district or borough council runs the housing side of the fund — rent shortfalls, a deposit, rent in advance. Each has its own rules, its own application route and its own government allocation.

• Bromsgrove
• Malvern Hills
• Redditch
• Worcester
• Wychavon
• Wyre Forest

What Worcestershire itself says

• What you get. “may include: cash payments, energy vouchers, supermarket vouchers, essential household goods”
• How to apply. “please contact your local Worcestershire Advice Network partner (Citizens Advice, Age UK or DIAL/Daisy)”

Quoted from Worcestershire’s own page↗, checked 15 September 2026. Nothing on this page is paraphrased into a rule the council has not published. The government allocation is from Annex A of the Crisis and Resilience Fund grant determination 2026 to 2027↗.

Apply on Worcestershire’s website

Applications are made on the council’s own site — this page collects nothing. If the link has moved, search the council site for “crisis and resilience”, then “household support”, then “welfare assistance”.

Source: Worcestershire County Council — Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF). Opened 15 September 2026.

Where this money comes from

Central government funds it; the council sets the rules. A payment does not affect your benefits. How the fund works nationally.

Other help you may qualify for

• Budgeting Advance or Budgeting Loan — interest-free from the DWP.
• How much councils pay — the cheapest borrowing, capped at 3% a month.
• DWP phone numbers — which line to call, and for what.
• Borrowing while on benefits — what it costs and what it does to your award.

Not in Worcestershire?

See the other councils we have checked, or find yours via GOV.UK’s Get help with the cost of living from your local council↗.

Outside England the scheme has a different name: the Scottish Welfare Fund in Scotland, the Discretionary Assistance Fund in Wales, and Discretionary Support in Northern Ireland.

Recently checked elsewhere: Wychavon, Cotswold, Norwich — see all 141.

This page is independent. It is not run by Worcestershire County Council, the Department for Work and Pensions or GOV.UK. Council schemes change without notice; the council’s own page is always the current position.