What is Cold Weather Payment

By einjobspk.com Dec 08, 2022

The cold weather payment is an energy cost assistance program provided to people

 receiving certain benefits or mortgage interest assistance programs.

If the average temperature in the area is reported as or is expected

to be below 0C for a week in a row, those who qualify will get a reward

Between November 1 and March 31

the reward is worth £25 for each successive seven-day stretch of below-freezing temperatures

Winter fuel payments and cold weather payments are two different things