State pensioners given £300 DWP boost if they have six-digit code

State pensioners request to cheque their slope accounts for a six-digit codification (Image: Getty)

State pensioners crossed the UK request to cheque their slope accounts for a six-digit codification this week for a £300 boost.

Pensioners successful England, Wales and Northern who were calved earlier September 23, 1958, oregon are successful receipt of definite benefits, should present person received a Winter Fuel Payment from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The Winter Fuel Payment is worthy up to £300 and provides captious enactment to pensioner households struggling to spend their vigor bills.

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

• Universal Credit

• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)

• Income Support

• Child Tax Credit

• Working Tax Credit

You indispensable person been claiming 1 of these benefits during the qualifying week of September 16 to 22 September, 2024, to suffice for this year’s payment.

Everyone who is entitled to the Winter Fuel Payment this twelvemonth should person received it by January 29, 2025.

Pensioners are advised to cheque for a six-digit codification connected their slope connection to guarantee they person received their payment. This volition look arsenic your National Insurance fig followed by the codification “DWP WFP”.

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.

Anyone who didn’t person a letter, oregon has not seen the wealth paid into their relationship by January 29, 2025, is urged to interaction the Winter Fuel Payment Centre connected 0191 218 7777.

If you’re waiting for a Pension Credit determination you’ll get the Winter Fuel Payment automatically erstwhile your assertion for Pension Credit is approved.

If you’ve applied for Pension Credit but haven’t received a determination yet, you don’t 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’ll request to supply grounds of the means-tested payment you’re getting.