170,000 low income households to be paid £25 cold weather benefits allowance in UK
Around 170,000 low income households in 160 postcode areas will receive latest Cold Weather Payments this winter, The United Kingdom for Work and Pensions has announced.
The payment is to help cover their heating costs this winter, this report from London Mirror sates.
Eligible Brits in 160 more postcode areas, including in the Home Counties, Norfolk, Essex, Kent, and Sussex, will get the new payment.
It means around 170,000 low income households are set for a £25 boost to help cover their heating costs.
Payments have also been triggered to the north and south of London, but so far temperatures haven’t been cold enough at Heathrow weather station to qualify for a payment in the 278 Greater London postcode areas it covers. If that threshold was met, an estimated 577,000 households would be eligible for a payment, at a one-off cost to the government of £14.4million.
The latest update includes a £25 payment to 4,000 households in Cumbria which are now in line for their third payment of the winter. The 11 postcode areas including Kendal, Keswick and Windermere will receive £75 towards their heating bills after previous cold spells in November and earlier this month.
Cold Weather Payments
Full list of postcodes eligible for the Cold Weather Payment are presented below:
Charlwood weather station (51,000 households)
BN5 – Henfield, West Sussex
BN6 – Clayton, West Sussex
BN44 – Steyning, West Sussex
GU5 – Wonersh, Surrey
GU6 – Cranleigh, Surrey
ME6 – Snodland, Kent
ME14 – Maidstone, Kent
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ME15 – Maidstone, Kent
ME16 – Maidstone, Kent
ME17 – Leeds, Kent
ME18 – West Farleigh, Kent
ME19 – West Malling, Kent
ME20 – Ditton, Kent
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RH1 – Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
RH2 – Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
RH3 – Brockham, Surrey
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RH4 – Dorking, Surrey
RH5 – Capel, Surrey
RH6 – Horley, Surrey
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RH7 – Lingfield, Surrey
RH8 – Limpsfield, Surrey
Cold Weather Payments
Around 170,000 low income households in 160 postcode areas will receive latest Cold Weather Payments this winter, The Department for Work and Pensions has announced.
RH9 – Godstone, Surrey
RH10 – Crawley, West Sussex
RH11 – Crawley, West Sussex
RH12 – Horsham, West Sussex
RH13 – Southwater, West Sussex
RH14 – Wisborough Green, West Sussex
RH15 – Burgess Hill, West Sussex
RH16 – Haywards Heath, West Sussex
RH17 – Cuckfield Rural, West Sussex
RH18 – Forest Row, East Sussex
RH19 – East Grinstead, West Sussex
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RH20 – Storrington, West Sussex
TN1 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
TN2 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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TN3 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
TN4 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
TN5 – Wadhurst, East Sussex
TN6 – Crowborough, East Sussex
TN7 – Hartfield, East Sussex
TN8 – Edenbridge, Kent
TN9 – Tonbridge, Kent
TN10 – Tonbridge, Kent
TN11 – Tonbridge, Kent
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TN12 – Yalding, Kent
TN13 – Sevenoaks, Kent
TN14 – Dunton Green, Kent
TN15 – Wrotham, Kent
TN16 – Greater London
TN17 – Cranbrook, Kent
TN18 – Four Throws, Kent
TN19 – Burwash, East Sussex
TN20 – Mayfield, East Sussex
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TN22 – Uckfield, East Sussex
TN27 – Smarden, Kent
CB1 – Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
CB2 – Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire
CB3 – Hardwick, Cambridgeshire
CB4 – Impington, Cambridgeshire
CB5 – Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire
CB10 – Saffron Walden, Essex
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CB11 – Newport, Essex
CB21 – Balsham, Cambridgeshire
CB22 – Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire
CB23 – Highfields, Cambridgeshire
CB24 – Over, Cambridgeshire
CB25 – Lode, Cambridgeshire
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CM1 – Chelmsford, Essex
CM2 – Great Baddow, Essex
CM3 – Danbury, Essex
Cold Weather PaymentsCM4 – Ingatestone, Essex
CM5 – Ongar, Essex
CM6 – Great Dunmow, Essex
CM7 – Braintree, Essex
CM8 – Witham, Essex
CM9 – Heybridge, Essex
CM11 – Essex
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CM12 – Billericay, Essex
CM13 – Brentwood, Essex
CM14 – Brentwood, Essex
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CM15 – Brentwood, Essex
CM16 – Epping, Essex
CM17 – Harlow, Essex
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CM18 – Harlow, Essex
CM19 – Harlow, Essex
CM20 – Harlow, Essex
CM21 – Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire
CM22 – Great Hallingbury, Essex
CM23 – Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire
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CM24 – Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex
CM77 – Braintree, Essex
CO9 – Sible Hedingham, Essex
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RM4 – Stapleford Abbotts, Essex
SG8 – Melbourn, Cambridgeshire
SG9 – Buntingford, Hertfordshire
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SG10 – Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
SG11 – Standon, Hertfordshire
Brize Norton weather station (18,000 households)
OX1 – Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX2 – Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX3 – Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX4 – Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX5 – Kidlington, Oxfordshire
OX11 – Didcot, Oxfordshire
OX12 – Wantage, Oxfordshire
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OX13 – Marcham, Oxfordshire
OX14 – Culham, Oxfordshire
OX18 – Carterton, Oxfordshire
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OX20 – Woodstock, Oxfordshire
OX25 – Chesterton, Oxfordshire
OX26 – Bicester, Oxfordshire
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OX27 – Fringford, Oxfordshire
OX28 – Witney, Oxfordshire
OX29 – Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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SN7 – Shellingford, Oxfordshire
Tibenham weather station (50,000 households)
NR1 – Norwich, Norfolk
NR2 – Norwich, Norfolk
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NR3 – Norwich, Norfolk
NR4 – Norwich, Norfolk
NR5 – Norwich, Norfolk
NR6 – Norwich, Norfolk
NR7 – Norwich, Norfolk
NR8 – Taverham, Norfolk
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NR9 – Marlingford, Norfolk
NR10 – Hevingham, Norfolk
NR11 – Erpingham, Norfolk
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NR12 – Smallburgh, Norfolk
NR13 – Blofield, Norfolk
NR14 – Alpington, Norfolk
NR15 – Hempnall, Norfolk
NR16 – Old Buckenham, Norfolk
NR17 – Attleborough, Norfolk
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NR18 – Wymondham, Norfolk
NR19 – Scarning, Norfolk
NR20 – Swanton Morley, Norfolk
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NR21 – Fakenham, Norfolk
NR22 – Walsingham, Norfolk
NR23 – Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
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NR24 – Briston, Norfolk
NR25 – Holt, Norfolk
NR26 – Sheringham, Norfolk
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NR27 – Cromer, Norfolk
NR28 – North Walsham, Norfolk
NR29 – Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
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NR30 – Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
NR31 – Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
NR32 – Oulton Broad, Suffolk
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NR33 – Oulton Broad, Suffolk
NR34 – Weston, Suffolk
NR35 – Bungay, Suffolk
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16 January
Shap weather station (Third £25 payment this winter for 4,000 households)
CA10 – Cliburn, Cumbria
CA11 – Catterlen, Cumbria
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CA12 – Keswick, Cumbria
CA16 – Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria
CA17 – Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
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LA8 – Kendal, Cumbria
LA9 – Kendal, Cumbria
LA10 – Sedbergh, Cumbria
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LA21 – Coniston, Cumbria
LA22 – Lakes, Cumbria
LA23 – Windermere, Cumbria
The announcement comes after the DWP revealed yesterday that payments had been triggered for nearly a million households in 517 postcode areas across Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and the West Midlands.
Cold Weather Payments are made to people in England and Wales who receive a number of benefits. A separate scheme is operated in Northern Ireland along similar lines but in Scotland the support for heating bills is paid every winter and not linked to specific spells of cold weather.
