Huge DWP Cold Weather Payment update as 10,000 people eligible for pay-out

Since the temperatures plummeted, the DWP volition beryllium issuing radical crossed 18 postcodes a £25 Cold Weather Payment to assistance towards their heating bills

As temperatures driblet and snowfall covers parts of the country, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has activated its Cold Weather Payments strategy for 18 postcode areas crossed the UK. Approximately 10,000 residents successful these areas volition person a £25 outgo to assistance screen their heating costs.

The DWP's Cold Weather Payment strategy runs from November to March, providing eligible households with a one-off £25 outgo each clip the somesthesia falls beneath 0C for 7 consecutive days. To qualify, households indispensable beryllium receiving definite benefits from the DWP.

Payments are automatically sent to eligible households successful each postcode country if the somesthesia is recorded oregon forecasted to beryllium beneath zero for 7 days successful a row. Most of the eligible postcodes are successful Cumbria, which experienced freezing temperatures triggering the outgo connected 17 November.

According to the DWP, those claiming Pension Credit, Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Universal Credit, Support for Mortgage Interest whitethorn beryllium eligible for the Cold Weather Payment. However, not everyone receiving these benefits volition automatically get a Cold Weather Payment.

Various factors find whether a outgo volition beryllium made, and afloat details of eligibility tin beryllium recovered connected the government website. Under the DWP scheme, astir 3.9 cardinal radical are eligible for Cold Weather Payments, with 1.2 cardinal of these being Pensions Credit recipients. Last year, a full of £9.1 cardinal was spent connected 364,000 payments crossed England and Wales.

Last winter, successful definite parts of Cumbria, the Cold Weather Payments were activated 3 times during abstracted periods of freezing weather, resulting successful eligible recipients receiving a full of £75.

Below shows the afloat database of postcodes receiving the DWP 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)