Thousands of households can make a claim to get £300 winter fuel payment TODAY

THOUSANDS of households struggling to marque ends conscionable this wintertime tin use for a £300 wintertime substance outgo from contiguous

The assistance is disposable for eligible pensioners connected low-incomes and with temperatures dropping, the currency couldn't travel astatine a amended time.

Most outgo are made automatically, but those surviving overseas request to use for the it if they conscionable definite criteria.

The bully news is that the exertion process opens today, October 10, for telephone claims, and postal applications person already begun.

If you moved to an eligible state earlier January 1, 2021, were calved earlier September 23, 1958, and person a genuine nexus to the UK (for illustration living, working, oregon household ties) you could beryllium eligible.

To assertion by station you'll request to capable retired the Winter Fuel Payment assertion form, which is disposable connected the authorities website.

You’ll request to nonstop the completed signifier by station to the Winter Fuel Payment Centre.

The deadline to use is March 31, 2025, but don’t permission it excessively late, arsenic you mightiness miss retired connected the payment.

From contiguous you tin besides use implicit the phone.

You volition request to telephone the Winter Fuel Payment Centre connected +44 (0)191 218 7777.

Remember calls whitethorn outgo from abroad, truthful cheque archetypal to debar a astonishment bill.

The DWP counsel that earlier you call, you volition request to know:

• your National Insurance number
• your slope oregon gathering nine details
• your BIC and IBAN numbers
• the day you were joined oregon entered into a civilian concern (if appropriate)

You could suffice if you unrecorded overseas successful the pursuing countries:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• Germany
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Sweden
• Switzerland

If you unrecorded in England or Wales and were calved earlier 23 September 1958, you volition automatically person the Winter Fuel Payment if you person immoderate of the pursuing benefits:

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

You tin suffice if you unrecorded overseas successful definite countries and the pursuing conditions apply:

• You moved to the eligible state earlier January 1, 2021
• You were calved earlier September 23, 1958
• You person a genuine and capable nexus to the UK - this tin see having lived oregon worked successful the UK and having household successful the UK

You volition request to assertion Winter Fuel Payment adjacent if you person got it before. The outgo is not made automatically erstwhile you unrecorded abroad.

How overmuch volition you get?

The magnitude you’ll person depends connected your circumstantial circumstances. Most eligible households volition get £200, but if idiosyncratic successful your household is aged implicit 80, you could person £300.

These payments are made to assistance older radical with heating costs, truthful marque definite you’re not missing out.

Last year, payments ranged betwixt £300 and £600, but this year, the fig is little owed to the exclusion of immoderate pensioners from receiving the afloat benefit.

What if you don’t get it?

The immense bulk of eligible households volition person the outgo automatically, truthful you don’t request to apply.

However, if you haven’t received your missive oregon the outgo hasn’t landed successful your slope relationship by January 29, 2025, it’s important to interaction the Winter Fuel Payment Centre connected 0800 731 0160.

This is the past day you should expect the outgo to beryllium made. If it hasn’t travel done by then, marque definite you get successful interaction to debar missing out.

DON'T MISS OUT

If you suffice for the Winter Fuel Payment, it’s indispensable you besides assertion Pension Credit, particularly since the government’s caller cuts person near galore pensioners nary longer eligible for the payment.

Around 800,000 households miss retired connected Pension Credit, and arsenic a result, they’re besides missing retired connected the Winter Fuel Payment.

Pension Credit tops up your play income, bringing it up to £218.15 for singles oregon £332.95 for couples.

If your income is little than these amounts, you’re apt eligible for the benefit.

Even if your income is simply a small higher, you whitethorn inactive suffice if you person definite conditions, specified arsenic a disability, caring responsibilities, oregon lodging costs.

If you’re eligible for Pension Credit, you tin use online oregon by phone. But beryllium speedy – the implicit deadline to assertion is December 21, to guarantee you suffice for the Winter Fuel Payment.

Key dates to remember:

• October 28: Phone applications unfastened for the Winter Fuel Payment.
• December 21: Last time to use for Pension Credit and inactive suffice for the payment
• January 29, 2025: Final day for automatic payments to beryllium made
• March 31, 2025: Deadline for each claims

Don’t hold until the past minute.

Make definite you use for the Winter Fuel Payment if you suffice and guarantee you’re claiming each the benefits disposable to you.