Little known payment which could be triggered in freezing weather

As the UK braces for freezing temperatures, immoderate households whitethorn go 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 Met Office warnings for crystal and snowfall issued, 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 1 November and 31 March 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.

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.

The UK is braced for ‘disruptive snow’, crystal and cold temperatures implicit the coming days, the Met Office has said.

Up to 20cm of snowfall whitethorn accumulate successful the worst affected areas successful the country’s ‘first sensation of winter’, according to the forecaster.

The Met Office has issued respective yellow weather warnings for snowfall and crystal for parts of the UK that began connected Sunday day and are successful spot until Tuesday morning, but said determination is ‘potential’ for warnings to beryllium ‘escalated’.

A informing comes into unit astatine 7pm contiguous and volition beryllium successful spot until 10am connected Tuesday – covering areas successful the East Midlands, Yorkshire, Wales and the northbound of England overnight.

Within the affected areas, determination is simply a accidental of powerfulness cuts, disruption to roadworthy and nationalist transport and the hazard of wounded from slipping connected ice, the weather service said.

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