Full list of benefits eligible for cold weather payments worth up to £25 a week – will you qualify?

THOUSANDS of households crossed the UK are eligible for £25 acold upwind payments if they're successful receipt of definite benefits.

As temperatures plunge beneath zero, susceptible households tin assertion the currency enactment to assistance spend their energy bills.

Thousands are acceptable to person the acold weather outgo for each seven-day-period of frosty weather, from this period until March next year.

The £25 is distributed to assistance with measure costs arsenic it becomes much expensive, and much difficult, to enactment warm.

The archetypal circular of 2024/25 was triggered this week crossed 18 postcode areas aft the Met Office announced amber upwind warnings successful parts of the UK.

Those who are eligible should person the outgo automatically to their slope relationship wrong 14 days - meaning you don't request to apply.

But successful bid to beryllium eligible, households indispensable beryllium surviving successful 1 of the prime postcodes affected, arsenic good arsenic claiming 1 of the pursuing benefits:

• Pension Credit
• Income support
• Income-based jobseeker's allowance
• Income-related employment and enactment allowance
• Universal Credit
• Support for mortgage interest

You whitethorn besides request to conscionable 1 oregon much of the pursuing criteria:

• Have a disablement oregon beryllium successful receipt of pension premium
• Have a kid who is disabled
• Be successful receipt of child taxation credits that includes a disablement oregon terrible disablement element
• Have a terrible oregon enhanced disablement premium
• Be successful receipt of a constricted capableness for enactment amount
• Have a kid nether 5 surviving with you

To find retired much astir eligibility, you tin work the astir updated accusation connected the Government website.

Getting the acold upwind outgo doesn't impact immoderate of your different benefits.

You tin besides get aggregate payments if the cold weather persists beyond 7 days.

For example, immoderate areas person paid arsenic overmuch arsenic £75 successful the past.

To cheque you've received the payment, you should look retired for an nonstop codification successful your slope statement.

For those surviving successful England and Wales, it should look arsenic the customer's National Insurance (NI) fig followed by "DWP CWP".

Whereas those surviving successful Northern Ireland should look for their NI fig followed by "DFC CWP".

If you haven't automatically received your outgo wrong the 14 days but deliberation you should have, you should archer the Pension Service oregon Job Centre Plus.

In uncommon cases you whitethorn request to use - for example, if you are connected Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's allowance (JSA) oregon income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and person had a babe oregon person a kid nether of 5 surviving with you.

To petition oregon query your outgo telephone the Pension Service helpline connected 0800 731 0469 oregon find your nearest Jobcentre by visiting find-your-nearest-jobcentre.dwp.gov.uk/.

Which postcodes are getting acold upwind payments this week?

You tin lone get the cold upwind payment if the postcode you are surviving successful has been triggered by terrible weather.

This is usually erstwhile temperatures are forecast to dip beneath zero degrees for 7 consecutive days, making it captious that families tin spend to vigor their homes.

Here's a afloat database of the archetypal 18 postcodes eligible successful the existent circular of payments:

• Carlisle: CA9-12, CA16-17
• Dumfries and Galloway: DG14
• Galashiels: TD9
• Lancaster: LA8-10, LA21-23
• Newcastle upon Tyne: NE19, NE47-NE49

Further acold upwind could pb to further payments successful different areas, and determination is nary maximum bounds to the magnitude you tin receive.

You tin cheque if you are owed a acold upwind outgo successful the future by visiting coldweatherpayments.dwp.gov.uk.

If you aren't capable to entree the acold upwind outgo but are inactive acrophobic astir heating your home, determination are plentifulness of tips you tin effort to support the acold astatine bay.

Electric blankets are inexpensive to bargain and outgo conscionable 3p per hr to use, and this winter Octopus Energy is giving them retired to customers for free.

We besides ranked the champion electrical blankets successful our nonfiction here - nevertheless make definite you besides work astir the information hazards which tin beryllium associated with appliances similar these.

Or if you'd similar to effort immoderate elemental ways to trim draughts successful your home, we've rounded up immoderate DIY tricks.

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