Thousands in the UK face getting a free £25 bank account top-up from November 1. The Cold Weather Payment scheme will open from next month – the eleventh month of the year – and provide cash-strapped Brits and UK households with a well-needed and much-welcomed respite and handy windfall.
The scheme reopens on November 1 and will run until March 31 next year. You’ll get a payment if the average temperature in your area is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees celsius or below over 7 consecutive days, according to the government guide on its website.
You’ll get £25 for each 7 day period of very cold weather between 1 November and 31 March. But i f you live in Scotland y ou cannot get Cold Weather Payments. Instead, you might get an annual £50 Winter Heating Payment. You’ll get this payment regardless of weather conditions in your area.
ou may get Cold Weather Payments if you’re getting Pension Credit or Income Support or income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance or income-related Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit or Support for Mortgage Interest. You’ll usually get Cold Weather Payments if you get Income Support or income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance and have any of the following: a disability or pensioner premium, a child who is disabled, Child Tax Credit that includes a disability or severe disability element or a child under 5 living with you.
You might also get Cold Weather Payments if you have any of the following: a severe or enhanced disability premium or a pensioner premium, or alternatively a child who is disabled or Child Tax Credit that includes a disability or severe disability element or a child under 5 living with you.
You’ll usually get Cold Weather Payments if you get Universal Credit and you are not employed or ‘gainfully self-employed’ and your partner is not employed or ‘gainfully self-employed’ (if you have a partner).
