Winter Fuel Payments worth up to £300 to start landing in 1.3million bank accounts NOW – exact code to spot

HUNDREDS of thousands of pensioner households person started being paid Winter Fuel Payments worthy up to £300.

The authorities has confirmed the escaped currency assistance begun landing successful bank accounts yesterday, November 25.

Overall, 1.3million susceptible households crossed England and Wales volition person the money to assistance with energy bills.

You should look retired for an nonstop codification successful your slope connection if you're successful enactment for a outgo - your National Insurance (NI) fig followed by "DWP WFP".

You volition get either £200 oregon £300 depending connected however aged you are.

Those calved betwixt September 23, 1944, and September 22, 1958, volition person £200 portion those calved earlier September 23, 1944, volition get £300.

The immense bulk of payments should onshore successful slope accounts automatically implicit the coming months.

Who is eligible for Winter Fuel Payments?

In erstwhile years, Winter Fuel Payments person been made to anyone of state pension property oregon older.

This year, the authorities has made the yearly outgo means-tested meaning you lone suffice if you're connected definite benefits.

You indispensable get 1 of the following:

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

You volition request to person been receiving 1 of the supra benefits during what's known arsenic the "qualifying week" - September 16 to 22 - to beryllium eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment this year.

The authorities is urging those eligible for Pension Credit but not already claiming to enactment successful a assertion earlier December 21.

This is due to the fact that you tin backdate Pension Credit claims by up to 3 months meaning if you assertion by December 21 you volition besides suffice for a Winter Fuel Payment.

You whitethorn beryllium capable to get up to 3 months' worthy of backdated Pension Credit paid to you arsenic well.

The mean Pension Credit assertion is worthy £3,900 a twelvemonth and besides opens up a big of different perks similar a escaped TV licence, council tax reductions and assistance with NHS treatments.

Most eligible pensioners are paid the Winter Fuel Payment automatically.

However, if you are eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment but unrecorded abroad, you volition request to assertion via station oregon phone.

The telephone fig to telephone is +44 (0)191 218 7777 and immoderate forms request to beryllium sent to: Winter Fuel Payment Centre, Mail Handling Site A, Wolverhampton, WV98 1ZU, UK.

You volition lone get a Winter Fuel Payment if you unrecorded overseas and successful 1 of 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

The deadline to marque a assertion for a Winter Fuel Payment is March 31, 2025.

If you are expecting an automatic outgo and it hasn't been paid by January 29 adjacent year, you should interaction the Winter Fuel Payment Centre connected 0800 731 0160.

Help for those not eligible for Winter Fuel Payments

If you're 1 of millions missing retired connected Winter Fuel Payments this twelvemonth determination is different assistance you mightiness suffice for.

First is the Household Support Fund which is simply a £421million cookware of currency that's been shared betwixt councils successful England.

A further £79million has been shared betwixt section authorities successful Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The money is designed to assistance those connected debased incomes, benefits oregon struggling financially to, generally, screen the outgo of energy bills oregon food.

But each assembly has been fixed a unsocial stock of the money meaning what you're entitled to depends connected wherever you live.

The champion happening to bash is interaction your section assembly and find retired if you're successful enactment for support, and what assistance you tin get.

You tin find what assembly country you autumn nether by visiting https://www.gov.uk/find-local-council.

You mightiness besides suffice for the Warm Home Discount if you're connected a fig of benefits, including Housing Benefit.

You tin find retired much astir the strategy in our portion here.

Do you person a wealth occupation that needs sorting? Get successful interaction by emailing money-sm@news.co.uk.

Plus, you tin articulation our Sun Money Chats and Tips Facebook radical to stock your tips and stories