Full list of the first postcodes eligible for this year’s £25 cold weather payments direct to bank accounts

THOUSANDS of struggling households successful much than a twelve postcodes are acceptable to person £25 to assistance vigor their homes arsenic the acold drawback takes hold.

This comes aft the Met Office issued yellow weather warnings for snow and crystal crossed parts of the UK, with immoderate advisories in spot until Wednesday.

The onset of colder weather successful definite regions implicit the past week has already triggered acold upwind payments for thousands of households.

Cold upwind payments are made successful locations wherever residents acquisition continuous below-zero weather.

Eligible households present get £25 during each seven-day play of low temperatures until March 31.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hands retired the other currency to low-income households.

Those who suffice volition person the funds deposited straight into their slope accounts wrong 14 days of their postcode being triggered.

The money is paid automatically - you don't request to apply.

Here's a afloat database of the archetypal 18 postcodes eligible for a azygous acold upwind outgo worthy £25:

• 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 arsenic well, and determination is nary maximum bounds to the magnitude you tin receive.

For example, astir 500 postcodes got payments worthy up to £75 past winter, while over 250 got the aforesaid magnitude the twelvemonth before.

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

Who is eligible for acold upwind payments?

Households successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland are eligible for acold upwind payments.

Households successful Scotland aren't but get a Winter Heating Payment instead. More accusation tin beryllium recovered astatine www.mygov.scot/winter-heating-payment.

You usually suffice for a acold upwind outgo erstwhile temperatures person dropped and if you're connected definite benefits. These are:

• Pension credit
• Income support
• Income-based jobseeker's allowance (JSA)
• Income-related employment and enactment allowance (ESA)
• Universal Credit

You tin besides get the payments if you person enactment for mortgage interest.

However, depending connected each benefit, determination are different criteria you mightiness person to fulfil to beryllium eligible.

For example, if you're on Universal Credit you volition lone suffice if you are unemployed oregon "gainfully self-employed", oregon your spouse is unemployed oregon "gainfully self-employed".

You are considered gainfully self-employed if you enactment regularly and expect to marque a profit.

One of the pursuing indispensable besides apply:

• You oregon your spouse person a health condition or disability and person constricted capableness for enactment (with oregon without work-related activity)
• You person a kid nether 5 surviving with you

You are besides eligible if you person a disabled kid magnitude included successful your Universal Credit claim.

There are besides different eligibility criteria attached if you assertion Income Support and income-based jobseeker's allowance (JSA), income-related employment and enactment allowance (ESA) oregon get enactment for owe involvement (SMI).

If you person a babe oregon a kid nether 5 surviving with you, you volition request to archer your section Jobcentre Plus.

You'll besides request to fto them cognize if you get income support, JSA oregon ESA.

You won't get acold upwind payments automagically if you don't.

Find retired much by visiting gov.uk/cold-weather-payment.

When and however are payments made?

Payments are typically made wrong 14 moving days of your postcode being activated.

The currency is paid straight into the aforesaid slope oregon gathering nine relationship wherever you person your benefits.

Tell the Pension Service oregon Jobcentre Plus if you don't person a outgo and deliberation you should have.

Call the Pension Service helpline connected 0800 731 0469 oregon find your nearest Jobcentre by visiting find-your-nearest-jobcentre.dwp.gov.uk/.

If you're connected Universal Credit, you tin log successful to your relationship and adhd a enactment to your journal.