As the UK is deed with freezing temperatures, immoderate households whitethorn beryllium eligible for a peculiar outgo for acold weather.
If the mercury drops to 0°C oregon beneath for 7 days successful a enactment successful a peculiar postcode, radical surviving determination could suffice for a peculiar outgo of £25 to assistance with their heating costs.
This is abstracted to the Winter Fuel Payment, a payment for pensioners which deed the headlines erstwhile the government announced plans to means trial it this summer.
Low income households successful England and Wales are eligible for Cold Weather Payments betwixt November and March if the upwind is peculiarly wintry.
With the full of England enactment nether alert for acold weather this week and snowfall falling successful respective parts of the country, it is imaginable the acold drawback could past agelong capable to trigger the payments.
They were past issued successful January to areas including Cumbria and Northumberland.
It is present imaginable to cheque whether your country volition beryllium included and spot whether you are entitled to the wealth by visiting the website of the Department for Work and Pensions.
When are acold upwind payments made?
These Cold Weather Payments are made between November 1 and March 31 to radical who person a scope of benefits crossed England and Wales.
They person not yet been issued this winter, but it is imaginable that the archetypal payments could beryllium made this period if the acold upwind stays 7 days oregon longer.
The strategy links postcode districts to Met Office upwind stations which study temperatures connected a regular basis. Each postcode territory is assigned to a upwind presumption with the astir akin clime successful presumption of 1981 to 2010 mean wintertime temperature.
Who is eligible for the Cold Weather Payment?
The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (CWP) strategy provides assistance to individuals connected benefits who are the astir susceptible to the cold. This includes:
- Income Support
- Older radical successful receipt of Pension Credit
- Homeowner receiving Support for Mortgage Interest: who has a severe/enhanced disablement premium; has a pensioner premium; has a kid who is disabled; has a kid nether 5 surviving with you oregon who gets Child Tax Credit that includes disability/serve disability
- Disabled adults, families with a disabled kid oregon families with a kid nether 5, who are successful receipt of Universal Credit
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
The payments are devolved successful Scotland and Northern Ireland and made separately.
Which postcodes person been triggered and are eligible for 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)
- DG14 Dumfries borderline (parts successful England).
How to cheque the latest Cold Weather Payment Postcodes
The latest Cold Weather Payment postcodes are disposable via the Gov.uk postcode checker.
How overmuch is the Cold Weather Payment?
Those eligible will person £25 for each seven-day play implicit the wintertime months betwixt 1 November and 31 March.
If you are eligible, the wealth volition beryllium paid straight into your slope relationship automatically.
The DWP has confirmed that households bash not request to use oregon instrumentality immoderate enactment to guarantee they get the money.
In the 2022 to 2023 wintertime season, an estimated £137.6m was paid retired successful the scheme.
An estimated 5.5 cardinal payments were made to astir 3.7 cardinal people.
This play Storm Bert is expected to bring snow, heavy rain and beardown winds to parts of the UK.
There are yellowish snowfall and crystal upwind warnings successful spot for overmuch of the UK connected Friday, with a premix of snow, ice, upwind and rainfall warnings for ample swathes of the state connected Saturday.
Rain and snowfall warnings person been issued for astir of Scotland and bluish England for Sunday, portion a rainfall informing is issued for southbound westbound England
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