Six-digit DWP code could give Brits a £300 boost

Around 1.5 cardinal radical successful the UK are eligible for this cash

Pensioners person been reminded to cheque their slope statements for a six-digit codification to guarantee they person received a £300 boost. Around 1.5 cardinal older radical successful the UK are acceptable to person their Winter Fuel Payment.

Those eligible for the currency are pensioners successful England, Wales and Northern Ireland who were calved earlier September 23, 1958, and are successful receipt of definite benefits. As reported by Express.co.uk, they should person received a Winter Fuel Payment from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by now.

Everyone who is entitled to the wealth this twelvemonth should person received it by January 29, 2025. To beryllium definite if you person received the outgo you should look for a six-digit codification connected your slope statement.

This volition look arsenic your National Insurance fig followed by the codification “DWP WFP”. The outgo is worthy up to £300 and provides captious enactment to pensioner households struggling to spend their energy bills.

It was antecedently disposable to each idiosyncratic aged 66 and implicit but changes introduced by the Labour Government has present seen the outgo restricted to pensioners receiving Pension Credit, oregon immoderate of the means-tested benefits listed below:

• Universal Credit
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
• Income Support
• Child Tax Credit
• Working Tax Credit.

To suffice for this year’s outgo you indispensable person been claiming 1 of these benefits during the qualifying week of September 16 to 22 September, 2024. Most payments are automatically issued successful November oregon December and you should person received a missive from the DWP telling you however overmuch you’ll get and which slope relationship the wealth volition beryllium paid into.

However, if you did not person a letter, oregon person not seen the wealth paid into their relationship by January 29, 2025, you should interaction the Winter Fuel Payment Centre connected 0191 218 7777. And if you’re waiting for a Pension Credit determination you volition get the Winter Fuel Payment automatically erstwhile your assertion for Pension Credit is approved.

If you person applied for Pension Credit but haven’t received a determination yet, you bash not request to interaction the Winter Fuel Payment Centre. The deadline for you to marque a assertion for wintertime 2024 to 2025 is March 31, 2025 and erstwhile you marque a claim, you volition request to supply grounds of the means-tested payment you are getting.