DWP issues state pensioners December deadline to get free £300

State Pensioners person conscionable weeks near to assertion a £300 Winter Fuel Payment (Image: Getty)

State pensioners crossed the UK person been issued a December deadline informing to get a £300 Winter Fuel Payment.

Around 1.3 cardinal households volition commencement to person the wintertime outgo from this week, but the Government has warned that thousands of pensioners are missing out.

An estimated 880,000 pensioners are missing retired connected Pension Credit, a payment which serves arsenic a gateway to get the £300 Winter Fuel Payment.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is urging pensioners who are connected a debased income to use for the payment arsenic each eligible claimants volition person up to £300 to assistance wage their wintertime substance bills.

The DWP is informing that the deadline to use for Pension Credit, and successful crook suffice for the Winter Fuel Payment, is accelerated approaching, and pensioners indispensable taxable their assertion by December 21, 2024.

Pension Credit is worthy up to £3,900 connected mean per twelvemonth and grants entree to a scope of different important benefits, including lodging costs, Council Tax reductions, a escaped TV licence and NHS attraction costs.

The Pension Credit modular minimum warrant volition soon beryllium worthy £227.10 per week for a azygous idiosyncratic and £346.60 for couples, erstwhile benefits are uprated successful April.

You indispensable unrecorded successful England, Scotland oregon Wales and person reached State Pension property to suffice for Pension Credit. Claims tin beryllium backdated by 3 months.

You indispensable use for Pension Credit by December 21, 2024 to suffice for a 2024 to 2025 Winter Fuel Payment, oregon Winter Heating Payment if you unrecorded successful Scotland.

You indispensable person been calved earlier September 23, 1958, unrecorded successful England, Wales oregon Northern Ireland, and get 1 of the pursuing benefits to beryllium eligible:

• Pension Credit

• Universal Credit

• income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)

• Income Support

• Child Tax Credit

• Working Tax Credit

You indispensable person been getting 1 of these benefits during the qualifying week of September 16 to 22, 2024.

The Winter Fuel Payment volition beryllium paid into slope accounts by the DWP automatically and volition person a outgo notation opening with your National Insurance fig followed by ‘DWP WFP’.

The outgo is worthy £200 for radical calved betwixt September 23, 1944 and September 22, 1958, and £300 for those calved earlier September 23, 1944. If you bash not person a outgo by January 29, 2025, you should interaction the DWP.