Cold Weather Payments are designed to support vulnerable households during spells of severe weather throughout the winter ...

DWP pays out £35m in Cold Weather Payments – how to check your area - Over £35 million has been spent on the scheme this year ...

The Cold Weather Payment scheme will be closing in a matter of weeks but over £35 million has already been paid out this winter to help vulnerable households ...

The Met Office has issued further weather warnings today ...

Payments are issued when temperatures are recorded or forecast to be zero degrees Celsius or lower for seven consecutive days ...

Cold weather payments worth £25 have been paid to nearly 1.5 million households across England and Wales so far this winter, ...

Plummeting temperatures across the UK has triggered the first Cold Weather Payments of 2024. Around 10,000 residents across 19 postcode areas in Cumbria, Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, will ...

Around 1.5 million eligible households have received the £25 payments towards their heating bills during spells of sub-zero conditions in the last few months ...

Meanwhile, Morpeth weather station near Chester-le-Street recorded similar conditions for seven days in a row, with the DWP ...

January and February have been wet and cold months ...

So far, more than 1,009,000 Pension Age Winter Heating Payments have been issued ...