Cold Weather Payments
(asked on 25th November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households were eligible for the Cold Weather Payment and lived in a postcode area where Cold Weather Payments were made in that year (a) overall and (b) by whether eligibility derived from (i) receipt of pension credit or (ii) universal credit or other legacy benefits for each of the last 10 financial years.
Column titled ‘Total households receiving at least one payment’ comprises households that were eligible for Cold Weather Payments and lived in a postcode area where Cold Weather Payments were made in that year.
Year | Cold Weather Triggers | Total households eligible | Total households eligible, in receipt of Pension Credit (as a subset of total households) | Total households receiving at least one payment | Households in receipt of Pension Credit receiving at least one payment (as a subset of total households) |
20/21 | 140 | 4,045,000 | 1,431,000 | 3,323,000 | 1,173,000 |
19/20 | 7 | 3,646,000 | 1,490,000 | 4,000 | 3,000 |
18/19 | 43 | 3,830,000 | 1,580,000 | 884,000 | 353,000 |
17/18 | 140 | 3,888,000 | 1,669,000 | 3,768,000 | 1,615,000 |
16/17 | 13 | 4,055,000 | 1,813,000 | 127,000 | 61,000 |
15/16 | 26 | 4,107,000 | 1,913,000 | 133,000 | 64,000 |
14/15 | 40 | 3,807,000 | 2,110,000 | 359,000 | 199,000 |
13/14 | 1 | 3,920,000 | data unpublished | 1,000 | 1,000 |
12/13 | 173 | 4,044,000 | 2,364,000 | 3,291,000 | 1,919,000 |
11/12 | 105 | 4,240,000 | data unavailable | 3,169,000 | data unavailable |
Note:
- A household is classed as eligible for Cold Weather Payments if it satisfies eligibility criteria, such as receipt of a qualifying benefit.
- A household will receive at least one Cold Weather Payment if it satisfies eligibility criteria and a cold weather trigger occurs in their postcode area, hence in years with fewer cold weather triggers, fewer households were in receipt of at least one payment.
- For years prior to 2018/19, the numbers of households receiving at least one payment were included in published data. For the years 2018/19 to 2020/21, these numbers have been calculated using data in the published reports.
- For some weather station areas, where the number of eligible recipients was estimated to be less than 100, this has been rounded to 100. Similarly, where the number of eligible recipients was estimated to be less than 500, this has been rounded to 500.
- Totals have been rounded to the nearest 1,000.
- For the year 2011/12, the estimates of the number of pension-age recipients of CWP is unavailable.
- For the year 2013/14, the estimated number of pension-age recipients is unavailable.