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Cold weather payment recipients will get £25 for every seven day period of very cold weather between November and March. The triggers for these payments are issued by the DWP and today, they have released their latest alerts.
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Cold weather payments have been triggered across the UK again as the DWP issued it s latest warning. Baroness Stedman-Scott detailed: Keeping warm throughout the winter is hugely important to staying healthy, which is why we pay to help heat homes when there’s a sustained cold snap.
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Baroness Stedman-Scott commented on this: “Keeping warm throughout the winter is hugely important to staying healthy, which is why we pay to help heat homes when there’s a sustained cold snap.
“As well as Cold Weather Payments, we also run the Warm Home Discount Scheme and Winter Fuel Payments, so we have a number of schemes in place to help.”
Cold weather payments are issued if the average temperature in an area is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees celsius or below over seven consecutive days.
Eligible recipients will get £25 for each seven-day period of very cold weather between November 1 and March 31.