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As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly check if you qualify for ECO4.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

15 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ita professional

What the alternative costsNo priced alternative is provided in the available tool data.

If this goes wrong, you may assume you qualify or do not qualify and miss a suitable route until a supplier or installer checks the evidence.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the current ECO4 guidance on GOV.UK and save the official page or copy its relevant text into the chat.
    2. Gather your property type and tenure, EPC details if available, heating system, energy supplier and the number of people in the household.
    3. Gather the name of any benefit or low-income circumstance you may rely on, but remove National Insurance numbers, account numbers and other unnecessary identifiers.
    4. Paste the official guidance and your general household and property details into the prompt, asking the chatbot to list anything still missing rather than guessing.
    5. Compare each provisional point in the response with the GOV.UK guidance you supplied and mark any point that depends on a supplier, installer or current scheme availability.
    6. Send the drafted questions and your supporting evidence to the relevant supplier or installer, and treat their confirmation as the final eligibility check.

    Prompt

    I want a provisional check of whether my household may qualify for the current UK ECO4 scheme. Use only current information from GOV.UK or another official scheme source that I provide, and clearly separate confirmed rules from assumptions. Do not give a final eligibility decision, invent thresholds, or rely on outdated guidance. Ask me for any missing information before assessing these points: property type and tenure, whether the home has an EPC and its rating, household composition, relevant benefits or low-income circumstances, heating system, energy supplier, and any existing evidence. Return: 1) information I supplied, 2) missing information, 3) a cautious provisional assessment, 4) the exact official source or supplier question needed to verify each point, and 5) a short message I can send to the relevant energy supplier or installer. Tell me not to share unnecessary personal identifiers. This is not professional advice.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot confirm that your benefit, income or household circumstances meet the current scheme rules without reliable evidence and current guidance.
  • AI cannot inspect your property, verify your EPC or establish whether a particular supplier or installer is accepting work.
  • AI cannot decide how an ambiguous household or property situation will be treated by the organisation assessing your application.
  • AI cannot take responsibility if you submit incomplete or inaccurate information.
  • AI cannot replace the supplier or installer that confirms eligibility and the available work.

What caps this at PARTLY: real time truth, judgement under ambiguity and stakes of error.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs1
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total7 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can ChatGPT tell me if I qualify for ECO4?
It can give you a provisional checklist using the details and current guidance you provide. It cannot give the final decision, which needs confirmation from the relevant supplier or installer.
What information do I need for an ECO4 eligibility check?
Start with your property type and tenure, EPC information, heating system, energy supplier, household details and the benefit or low-income circumstances you may rely on. The exact evidence depends on the route being assessed, so ask the supplier or installer what documents they require.
Can AI check my EPC and benefits for ECO4?
AI can help organise information you already have, but it cannot verify your EPC record or prove that you receive a qualifying benefit. Use official records and provide evidence to the supplier or installer making the assessment.
Is it safe to use AI to check ECO4 eligibility?
It is suitable for preparing a checklist, provided you remove unnecessary personal identifiers and check the answer against current official guidance. This is not professional advice, and a serious or disputed case should be checked with the relevant energy supplier, installer or an accredited energy adviser.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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