DWP Winter Fuel Payment deadline is just days away - check if you can still claim £300

Winter Fuel Payments are worthy up to £300 and are disposable to those who are implicit authorities pension age, and who are successful receipt of definite means-tested benefits, specified arsenic Pension Credit

An important deadline for anyone who has yet to person the Winter Fuel Payment is accelerated approaching.

Winter Fuel Payments are worthy up to £300 and are disposable to those who are implicit authorities pension age, and who are successful receipt of definite means-tested benefits, specified arsenic Pension Credit. Most radical person this outgo successful November and December, but the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was deed by delays successful issuing the currency pursuing a monolithic backlog of Pension Credit applications.

There was a backlog of 90,000 unprocessed claims arsenic of mid-November, with astir 9,000 being processed each week, according to latest authoritative figures. The DWP told the BBC it has 500 other members of unit to process applications.

If you inactive haven't received your Winter Fuel Payment by January 29, and you judge you're eligible, past you'll beryllium capable to interaction the Winter Fuel Payment Centre from this date. To get a Winter Fuel Payment this year, you indispensable person been calved earlier September 23, 1958 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

You won't beryllium eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment if you lived successful a attraction location for the full clip from June 24 to September 22, 2024. You tin inactive beryllium eligible if you unrecorded successful a attraction location connected a impermanent basis, which is little than 13 weeks by the extremity of the qualifying period.

You besides won't beryllium eligible if you've been successful infirmary getting escaped attraction for much than a year, if you needed support to participate the UK and your granted permission says that you cannot assertion nationalist funds, oregon if you are successful situation for the full of the week of September 16 to September 22, 2024.

If you unrecorded abroad, you'll request to marque a assertion for a Winter Fuel Payment You indispensable person moved to an eligible EEA state oregon Switzerland earlier December 31, 2020 and beryllium covered by the Withdrawal Agreement, to get a Winter Fuel Payment. You indispensable besides person a genuine and capable nexus to the UK.