Cold Weather £25 Allowance

If you are of pensionable age, you can check this website to see if you qualify for the £25 cold weather fuel payment.

nowt doin' in Wigan this week then

Doesnt it trigger an automatic payment for those that are eligible?

£300 quid i get, and donate it to a worthy charity that don't have a director being driven around in a limo by a chaufer??????????

its a con theres has to be 7 days continuos forecast of zero or minus degrees yet the weather sites show 3 or 4 days of the freezing days then pop in a day of 2 or 3 degrees, you've not a cat in hells chance of getting that 25 quid the government will see to that

I find that very strange Laffing. A member of my family had two payments of £25, on top of the winter fuel payment. Dont remember which year it was but certainly within the last 5 years.

I love your avatar lg and I honestly thought it was made up until I saw you in town the other day.

Cold Weather Payments for winter 2015/16
Published Monday, January 11, 2016
Cold Weather Payments are made from the Social Fund to certain recipients of Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Universal Credit or Pension Credit during periods of very cold weather. To “trigger” the payments, the average temperature at a specified weather station must be recorded as, or forecast to be, 0°C or below for seven consecutive days. The scheme runs from 1 November to 31 March each year.

The payment is a fixed amount for each week of cold weather. For many years this was set at £8.50 a week but the Labour Government increased the rate to £25 a week as a temporary measure for winters 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. The 2010 Government made the £25 rate permanent.

In the last two winters relatively mild weather meant that far fewer payments were made compared with previous years. In winter 2014/2015 DWP made 422,000 awards totalling £10.6 million. Winter 2013/2014 was exceptionally mild and payments “triggered” in one area only (postcodes linked to the Braemar weather station) in one week. Only 1,100 payments were made, totalling £27,500.

So your another ignorant bleeder are you platty,too good to talk?

like i said mindar isnt it funny the payments went from 10 n half million to 27000 pound big drop dont you think?

Aye a big jump in temperature in 2013/14. Therefore less paid out.

Mean temperatures over the UK were well above the long-term average for all three months with a mean winter temperature of 5.2 oC which is 1.5 oC above the average and the equal-fifth highest in the series. There was a notable absence of frosts.

lg: Was on my way over but you were surrounded by people with red scarves and didn't want to get involved. Next time I see you, I'll come over, you can buy me a pint.

He wouldn't have been surrounded by people in work gear, and if he was he wouldn't have been "getting involved".

Cold weather £25 payment due in WN2 area.

wn1 and wn5 have geet it too so i recon all wigan will have..

What seems peculiar is that the weather station to determine the payments is at Rostherne which is almost a 30 minute drive from Wigan???

It only applies to recipients of benefits.

So it should, people in most need.
Bloody freezing.

I disagree jathbee, we all have bills to pay and all get the winter allowance.

This causes do much trouble with some working class people Boasting about it they get it and waste it on Rubbish .

And some people afraid to put their heating on because of the cost.