DWP pays out £35m in Cold Weather Payments – how to check your area - Over £35 million has been spent on the scheme this year ...
Payments are issued when temperatures are recorded or forecast to be zero degrees Celsius or lower for seven consecutive days ...
The Met Office has issued further weather warnings today ...
Cold weather payments worth £25 have been paid to nearly 1.5 million households across England and Wales so far this winter, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The seasonal benefit will be coming to a close in a matter of weeks ...
January and February have been wet and cold months ...
It’s worth checking your eligibility so you don’t miss out on money you’re entitled to ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cold weather payments were issued to more than one million households in January (Rosemary Roberts) Millions of people in England ...