It pays out £25 each time the average temperature in your area is recorded as, or forecast to be, 0C or below over 7 consecutive days
Cold Weather Payments are set to start in the coming weeks and could help thousands of households with their costly energy bills.
Extra financial support is being made available to low-income households over the winter months with six different benefits eligible. Cold Weather Payments are made to vulnerable people, including pensioners, in England and Wales to help them pay for heating when the temperature dips below freezing.It goes to those living in an area where the average temperature is recorded as, or forecast to be, 0C or below over seven consecutive days.
Household energy debt has hit a five-year high of £216 for the average household, an increase on the £190 seen at this time last year, with the number of homes that owe money to their supplier rising from 2,800,000 to 3,200,000. The Cold Weather Payment is separate and available to households on certain benefits People get £25 for each seven-day period of very cold weather and this year's scheme opens on Wednesday, November 1, and runs to the end of March 2024.
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