Privacy notices - Inverness winter fuel payments scheme

Inverness Winter Fuel Payment is intended to provide additional financial support to people living on low incomes and is available to people who live in the following wards: Aird and Loch Ness, Inverness West, Inverness Central, Inverness Ness-side, Inverness Millburn, Culloden, Ardersier and Inverness South areas.

This scheme opens for new applications on 1 December 2024 and ends on 28 February 2025 (a three-month period).  

The Inverness Winter Payment Scheme is funded by the Inverness Common Good.  Those eligible will receive a payment to assist with fuel costs and to help heat their homes during the winter months (this payment is not a benefit).  We will use existing data and the evidence uploaded by you to verify the information provided and to detect fraudulent claims.

If you don’t provide personal data we will be unable to pay the fuel support payment into your bank account.

Official Authority. We process personal data because we have authority to do so (Article 6(1)(e) of GDPR).

• View personal data
• Change personal data
• Delete personal data
• Restrict processing of personal data

Find out more about your rights

Information is shared with the Scottish Government.

Your data is held for 6 after the current year.

Your personal information is not subject to automated decision making or profiling.

The data controller is The Highland Council

Contact the Council's Data Protection Officer

Data Protection Officer
Highland Council Headquarters
Glenurquhart Road
Inverness
IV3 5NX
01463 702029   

dpo@highland.gov.uk

If you are unhappy with the way we have processed your personal information you can contact the Information Commissioner:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113
https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/