Cold Weather Payments: Full list of 18 postcodes eligible for £25 as snow hits UK

The Cold Weather Payments were triggered for 12 postcode areas successful Cumbria, 4 successful Northumberland, and 2 postcodes successful the Scottish Borders which transverse into England

The archetypal Cold Weather Payments of the wintertime 2024/25 person been triggered for 18 postcode areas arsenic snow blankets ample areas of the UK.

Thousands of radical are present eligible for £25 payments towards their heating bills from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Cold Weather Payments were triggered for 12 postcode areas successful Cumbria, 4 successful Northumberland, and 2 postcodes successful the Scottish Borders which transverse into England.

It is estimated that astir 10,000 radical volition person the payment, the archetypal areas to person a Cold Weather Payment this winter. The 12 postcode areas successful Cumbria to person a outgo see the Lakes, Kendal and Coniston, aft freezing temperatures were recorded astatine the Shap upwind centre. The outgo was triggered connected 18 November.

Here is the afloat database of postcode areas wherever eligible radical volition person a Cold Weather Payment:

• 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)

The DWP says those claiming the pursuing benefits whitethorn beryllium eligible for the Cold Weather Payment; Pension Credit, Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Universal Credit, Support for Mortgage Interest.

Not each those receiving these benefits volition automatically person a Cold Weather Payment. There are a fig of factors which volition find whether a outgo volition beryllium made and afloat details of those eligible tin beryllium recovered connected GOV.UK.

The payments are triggered if mean temperatures successful an country person been recorded at, oregon are forecast to be, beneath freezing for 7 consecutive days. Recipients are automatically paid £25 for each 7 time play of acold upwind moving crossed the wintertime play betwixt 1 November 2024 and 31 March 2025.