What is the cold weather payment and who is eligible?

HARD-UP households crossed the UK could beryllium successful enactment for a currency boost during chilly weather.

Cold upwind payments help enactment low-income households during prolonged periods of freezing temperatures.

We explicate what the outgo is, who is eligible and however to apply.

What is the acold upwind payment?

The acold upwind outgo is dished retired erstwhile temperatures are recorded as, oregon forecast to be, zero degrees oregon below, connected average, for 7 consecutive days.

When temperatures driblet betwixt November 1 and March 31, eligible Brits are entitled to extra money to vigor their homes when this happens.

You get £25 for each seven-day play wherever the upwind is beneath zero Celsius connected mean during this clip frame.

Cold upwind payments are nary longer paid in Scotland as the strategy has been replaced.

Instead, you mightiness get an yearly £58.75 Winter Heating Payment. You tin find retired much astir the strategy connected the Scottish Government's website.

You bash not request to use to the scheme.

If you don't person a outgo but judge you're eligible, interaction your local Pension Centre or Jobcentre Plus office.

If you're getting Universal Credit, you tin besides motion successful to your relationship and adhd a enactment to your journal.

When temperatures plummet, you tin cheque if your country is owed a acold upwind outgo by typing your postcode into the government's instrumentality connected its website.

How overmuch bash I get from the acold upwind outgo and however is it paid?

Eligible households are paid £25 for each seven-day play wherever temperatures are, oregon forecast to be, beneath zero degrees Celsius connected average.

The payments should get wrong 14 moving days.

The currency is paid into the aforesaid slope oregon gathering nine relationship arsenic the 1 utilized to wage benefits, and doesn’t impact immoderate different allowances you whitethorn claim.

Because you person £25 for each seven-day play of acold weather, it means you tin get much than 1 payment.

Some areas person been known to person £75 successful full betwixt November and March.

Payments usually look successful slope statements arsenic your National Insurance number followed by "DWP CWP" for radical in England and Wales.

If you unrecorded in Northern Ireland it volition look arsenic "SSA CWP".

Your National Insurance number is made up of 2 letters, past six numbers, past a letter.

Who is eligible for a acold upwind payment?

You’re eligible for a acold upwind outgo if you’re successful receipt of 1 of the pursuing benefits and conscionable definite criteria:

• Pension credit
• Income support
• Income-based jobseeker’s allowance
• Income-related employment and enactment allowance
• Universal Credit
• Support for mortgage interest

Depending connected your circumstantial circumstances, you whitethorn besides request to conscionable 1 oregon much of the pursuing further criteria:

• Have a disablement oregon beryllium successful receipt of pension premium
• Have a kid who is disabled
• Be successful receipt of child taxation credit that includes a disablement oregon terrible disablement element
• Have a terrible oregon enhanced disablement premium
• Be successful receipt of a constricted capableness for enactment amount
• Have a kid nether 5 surviving with you

Regardless of employment, Universal Credit claimants are eligible if they person a disabled kid magnitude successful their claim.

You tin find retired much astir eligibility connected the government's website.

How bash I use for the acold upwind payment?

You don’t request to use for the acold upwind outgo arsenic it’s paid automatically to those who are eligible.

If you don’t person a outgo and judge you’re eligible past you tin archer your pension centre oregon Jobcentre Plus office, oregon telephone the Universal Credit helpline connected 0800 328 5644.

If you’re getting Universal Credit, you tin besides motion successful to your relationship and adhd a enactment to your journal.

If you spell into hospital, this could impact your assertion truthful marque definite you archer idiosyncratic utilizing the interaction details above.

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