DWP triggers new Cold Weather Payments for people living in 47 postcode areas - use our map
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The DWP has triggered new Cold Weather Payments for people living in 47 postcode areas. Eligible households in these regions will receive a £25 payment towards the extra cost of heating their homes during the current cold snap. A total of 160,000 households are expected to receive the payments in the areas announced today. The 19 postcode areas in Northumberland and County Durham with 141,000 households eligible for payments:.
The 14 postcode areas in Staffordshire and Derbyshire (11,000 households eligible) are:. The four postcode areas in Northumberland (3,000 households eligible) are:. The ten postcode areas in mid Wales (5,000 households eligible) are:. The update comes after payments were triggered for 51 postcode areas in Yorkshire yesterday. More than 250,000 households will now receive Cold Weather Payments this winter so far. You can check payments for your postcode area on our interactive map here:.
Previously two separate payments totalling £50 were made to around 10,000 households in 18 postcode areas in Cumbria and Northumberland. A further eight postcode areas in Northern Ireland have also received a single £25 Cold Weather Payment under a similar separate scheme which is operated by the Northern Ireland Executive, and not the DWP. The payments there were triggered on the January 4 and covered these postcode areas:.
Cold Weather Payments are made to people in England and Wales who receive a range of benefits. A separate scheme is operated in Northern Ireland along similar lines but in Scotland the support for heating bills is paid every winter and not linked to specific spells of cold weather.
