Cold weather payment

Auzelia

Do I qualify?

I cant seem to find any proper answers on the net.

My mum and her friend both got a letter saying that they where getting the £25 payment, we all live in the same postcode area apart from it being street names different.

My mum is on DLA and IS, she also gets CTC for my little brother.
Her friend is on the sick so unsure exactly what she gets.

I get CTC @ higher family rate
WTC
MA

Would I get anything?

[Deleted User]

here you go

http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Customers/WorkingAgeBenefits/008270.xml.html

fizzel81

i had a letter last thursday for mine

i beleave you have to be on a qualifying benifit to recieve anything, i missed the first one for my area as my IS didnt re start untill 7th jan, i got mine as i have qualifying children on dla

Zara33

fizzel is correct Income support is the passport benefit to get a cold weather payment.

Auzelia

ah so cos I work and im not on the sick and I dont have a disabled child under 5 I dont qualify.

Sweet!

novelli

So do u have to be getting income support, or are u eligible if u get child tax credit and have a disabled child??

Auzelia

I think its IS with a child under 5 or over 60
or CTC with disability premium.

cw18

IS with disability premium would also trigger it


And for IS, also read JSA or ESA (assessment phase) if they're the means tested ones.

krisskross

pension credit counts, but not normal state pension.