DWP issues huge update for pensioners getting £300 Winter Fuel Payment this year

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced that the wintertime enactment outgo would commencement to beryllium sent to slope accounts from Monday, November 25

Pensioners across the UK volition commencement to person this year's Winter Fuel Payment from this week.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced that the wintertime enactment outgo would commencement to beryllium sent straight to slope accounts from Monday, November 25. The enactment outgo - worthy betwixt £200 and £200 - is fixed to pensioner households to assistance with the higher outgo of vigor implicit the colder months.

If you are calved betwixt September 23, 1944 and 22 September 22, 1958, you volition person a outgo of £200, and those calved earlier 23 September 23, 1944, volition get £300. The notation for the outgo successful your slope relationship volition beryllium your National Insurance fig followed by "DWP WFP". So, for example, it would look like: "QQ123456B DWP WFP".

Earlier this year, the Labour authorities means-tested the DWP benefit, truthful alternatively of each pensioners implicit the property of 66 getting the outgo arsenic was the lawsuit before, lone those claiming definite benefits will. Under the caller rules, you are eligible for this year's Winter Fuel Payment if you are implicit the authorities pension property of 66 and claiming 1 of the pursuing benefits betwixt September 16 and September 22, 2024:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Pension Credit
• Universal Credit

If you are eligible, you volition person the outgo automatically. It is imaginable to inactive beryllium entitled to a Winter Fuel Payment adjacent if you weren't claiming 1 of these benefits during the qualifying week. Pension Credit claims tin beryllium backdated by 3 months, which means you person until December 21 to use and inactive beryllium entitled to the Winter Fuel Payment.

Since changing the rules, the authorities has launched a immense consciousness run for Pension Credit. The payment - provided to low-income pensioners - tops up your play income to £218.15 a week if you are azygous oregon £332.95 if you person a partner. From adjacent April, these rates volition emergence to £227.10 and £346.60 respectively. Pension Credit is besides classed arsenic a gateway payment arsenic by claiming, you could besides beryllium eligible for assistance with lodging costs, assembly taxation reductions and NHS attraction costs. Overall, it is worthy astir £3,900 a year.