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 ...
A total of 18 ST postcodes covering Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire have been triggered - full list ...
Payments are issued when temperatures are recorded or forecast to be zero degrees Celsius or lower for seven consecutive days ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UK is experiencing continued cold temperatures, as well as its first named storm of 2026. The Met Office has issued several ...
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 ...
Cold weather payments worth £25 have been paid to nearly 1.5 million households across England and Wales so far this winter, ...
January and February have been wet and cold months ...
So far, more than 1,009,000 Pension Age Winter Heating Payments have been issued ...