Cold Weather Payments

(asked on 13th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending cold weather payments to cover all UK postcodes.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 18th January 2021

Cold Weather Payment schemes already cover all UK postcodes, helping vulnerable people in receipt of certain income-related benefits to meet the additional costs of heating during periods of severe cold weather between 1st November and 31st March. In both the department’s Cold Weather Payment scheme covering Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s separate scheme, an automatic payment of £25 is made when the average temperature has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, zero degrees centigrade or below, over seven consecutive days at the weather station linked to an eligible person’s postcode.

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