Tens of thousands of households will be getting a one-off payment of £25 from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the coming days to help with heating costs.
Cold Weather Payments will be made in another 51 postcode areas after the DWP confirmed that further households are eligible for the payments amid the recent cold snap.
The new payments announced today cover postcode areas around West Yorkshire, including Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and extend into parts of East Lancashire, including Burnley, as well as areas of North Yorkshire and County Durham.
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Cold Weather Payments are made to people in England and Wales who receive certain benefits, such as Pension Credit, Income Support and Universal Credit. There are an estimated 3.9 million people eligible for Cold Weather Payments under the DWP scheme.
Payments are triggered when the temperature is recorded as or forecast to be 0C or below for a period of seven consecutive days. The scheme runs every winter between November and March.
The most recent payments were triggered by a seven-day period of subzero temperatures which started on January 4 and will last until Saturday, January 11.
The interactive map below shows which postcode areas are eligible for Cold Weather Payments. To check whether payments have been triggered in your area, you can enter your postcode.
So far this winter, more than 100,000 households have been eligible for Cold Weather Payments. The first payments of the season were triggered back in November and then further payments were triggered during the first week of January for a handful of areas in northern England.
Last winter, there were 364,000 payments made across England and Wales at a total cost of £9.1 million.
In some areas of Cumbria, the Cold Weather Payments were triggered three times during separate spells of freezing weather last winter, meaning eligible recipients were paid £75 in total.
The Met Office says temperatures are going to remain low for the next couple of days before milder air moves across the UK at the weekend. Fresh weather warnings have been issued on Thursday as the icy weather persists.
The majority of Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as large parts of the east of England, are covered by a yellow warning for ice from 4pm on Thursday until 10am on Friday. A separate warning covering south and west Wales down to Plymouth from 3am to 11am tomorrow is also in place.
A yellow warning for snow and ice in Scotland, which was due to end at midnight, has been extended until 10am on Friday.
The Met Office has said Wednesday night’s coldest temperature was recorded at Shap in Cumbria at minus 11.2C. Temperatures had been forecast to plummet as low as minus 16C on Thursday night.
