Cold Weather Payment checker: See if you're due £25 as energy bills rise again

Cold Weather Payments are issued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) erstwhile the mean somesthesia wherever you unrecorded hits zero degrees oregon beneath implicit 7 consecutive days

The archetypal Cold Weather Payments worthy £25 were triggered this week aft parts of the UK were deed with snow.

Cold Weather Payments are issued by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) erstwhile the mean somesthesia wherever you unrecorded hits zero degrees oregon beneath implicit 7 consecutive days. To get the cash, you person to claiming definite benefits.

While the payments are worthy £25 per 7 time period, you tin person aggregate Cold Weather Payments if you get respective periods of freezing upwind implicit winter. The Cold Weather Payment strategy volition tally until March 31, 2025. It is important to support an oculus retired for these payments aft Ofgem confirmed energy bills volition emergence again this January.

If you find you're owed a Cold Weather Payment, the wealth volition beryllium paid into your slope relationship automatically wrong 14 moving time - though determination are immoderate cases wherever you whitethorn request to apply. You tin spot if you are owed a outgo by entering your postcode connected this GOV.UK checker.

The archetypal Cold Weather Payments were triggered successful the pursuing 18 postcodes this week:

• CA9 Leadgate, Cumbria
• CA10 Cliburn, Cumbria
• CA11 Catterlen, Cumbria
• CA12 Keswick, Cumbria
• CA16 Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria
• CA17 Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
• LA8 Kendal, Cumbria
• LA9 Kendal, Cumbria
• LA10 Sedbergh, Cumbria
• LA21 Coniston, Cumbria
• LA22 Lakes, Cumbria
• LA23 Windermere, Cumbria
• NE19 Elsdon, Northumberland
• NE47 Allendale, Northumberland
• NE48 Bellingham, Northumberland
• NE49 Haltwhistle, Northumberland
• TD9 Scottish Borders (parts successful England)
• DG14Dumfries borderline (parts successful England)

You could beryllium entitled to a Cold Weather Payment if you're getting 1 of the pursuing benefits.

• Pension Credit

• Income Support (if you person immoderate of the following: disablement oregon pensioner premium, a kid who is disabled, Child Tax Credit that includes a disablement oregon terrible disablement constituent oregon a kid nether 5 surviving with you)

• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (if you person immoderate of the following: disablement oregon pensioner premium, a kid who is disabled, Child Tax Credit that includes a disablement oregon terrible disablement constituent oregon a kid nether 5 surviving with you)

• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (if you person immoderate of the following: terrible oregon enhanced disablement premium, a pensioner premium, a kid who is disabled, Child Tax Credit that includes a disablement oregon terrible disablement constituent oregon a kid nether 5 surviving with you)

• Universal Credit (if you're not employed oregon "gainfully" self-employed, your spouse is not employed oregon "gainfully" self-employed - you oregon your indispensable besides person a wellness information oregon disablement and person constricted capableness for work, oregon person a kid nether 5 surviving with you)

• Support for Mortgage Interest (if you person immoderate of the following: terrible oregon enhanced disablement premium, a pensioner premium, a kid who is disabled, Child Tax Credit that includes a disablement oregon terrible disablement constituent oregon a kid nether 5 surviving with you)

If you assertion Income Support, Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance oregon Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, you volition request to interaction Jobcentre Plus to get a Cold Weather Payment if:

• You've had a baby
• A kid nether 5 has travel to unrecorded with you

If you've not received a Cold Weather Payment and you deliberation you're eligible, interaction the Pension Service oregon Jobcentre Plus. Cold Weather Payments are not disposable successful Scotland anymore - but you mightiness beryllium entitled to an yearly £50 Winter Heating Payment instead.