Plummeting temperatures have prompted the first cold weather payments of the winter in England and Wales as the relentless Arctic blast freezes the UK. If the mercury drops to 0°C or below for seven ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Nearly 1.5 million households will soon get a one-off payment from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) following the freezing cold temperatures experienced across the UK experienced in the ...

The seasonal benefit will be coming to a close in a matter of weeks ...

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