cold weather payment postcode search [merged]

mammamia2004

firstly this i would liek to say that what i am about to right is not agaisnt the elderly!!!!!

i am just curious to why the eldery get £250 heating grant????

i recently split up from my husband had has gone on income support as i have 2 children under 5 years old, i have not claimed any benefits for over 10 years. i understand the eldery need to keep warm but so do young children. for example my ex-mother-in-law is retiered she gets £100 week state pension plus 2 a very healthy work pension and a private pension, her house is paid off, so she is getting a lot every month and she is was still entitled to the £250 grant, and this is to look after herself with, which works out a lot more a week then my benefits for me and 2 children even tho she does have to pay council tax!!should this grant not be means tested??? like everything else is!!!

mammamia2004

geoff11 wrote: »

winter fuel payment is totally different to a cold weather payment, not in my bank today either but as i was told they aim to have them in by new years eve, they only started sending them through the system yesterday, baccs payments take 3 days so new yearss eve it will be by the look of things.

it could be monday as some banks take 4 days

geoff11

mammamia2004 wrote: »

it could be monday as some banks take 4 days

could be anytime lol, i can only go on what they told me on tuesday on the phone which was by the 31st, im one of the lucky ones who doesnt have to rely on it thank god.

geoff11

mammamia2004 wrote: »

firstly this i would liek to say that what i am about to right is not agaisnt the elderly!!!!!

i am just curious to why the eldery get £250 heating grant????

i recently split up from my husband had has gone on income support as i have 2 children under 5 years old, i have not claimed any benefits for over 10 years. i understand the eldery need to keep warm but so do young children. for example my ex-mother-in-law is retiered she gets £100 week state pension plus 2 a very healthy work pension and a private pension, her house is paid off, so she is getting a lot every month and she is was still entitled to the £250 grant, and this is to look after herself with, which works out a lot more a week then my benefits for me and 2 children even tho she does have to pay council tax!!should this grant not be means tested??? like everything else is!!!

good question, ive often wondered why, some get up to £400, many people who are under pension age and on a lot less money that pensioners have the same winter fuel bill problem but get no winter fuel payment, i think it comes down to the gov using it as a vote winner tbh, but it is discriminating against other vulnerable people in exactly the same position as pensioners if not worse.

anguk

geoff11 wrote: »

good question, ive often wondered why, some get up to £400, many people who are under pension age and on a lot less money that pensioners have the same winter fuel bill problem but get no winter fuel payment, i think it comes down to the gov using it as a vote winner tbh, but it is discriminating against other vulnerable people in exactly the same position as pensioners if not worse.

I also think the winter fuel payment should be means tested. My grandmother is comfortably well off, she's certainly never had to worry about putting her heating on, she says herself she doesn't need the fuel allowance and it's daft that she gets it when there's others who really struggle to heat their homes. All her friends are also in the same position and think the same.

I also think child benefit should be means tested, it's ridiculous that you could earn thousands of pounds a week and still be entitled to it.

I wonder if it's just cheaper to pay it to everyone rather than means-test?

geoff11

most pensioners i know dont even use it, they dont need it, they just bank it, i know lots of people who really need it but arent pensioner age so dont get it, i still say they get it as its a vote winner and thats why they get it when poeple on lots less get nothing.

welshsue

Found out the list of Weather Stations used plus other info as follows http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20082569_en_1 (list of stations)

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/briefings/snsp-00696.pdf (other info)

We live in rural mid Wales and our nearest Town(11 miles away) has been triggered but they are on a different Weather Station to us. The Weather Station for our postcode is 15 miles away in the other direction and not triggered.

Also don't think they use the wind chill in the results,as if they did i think more of Uk would be getting the payments.

geoff11

update, i rang i/s on tuesday, they told me the payment would be in the bank by 31st, noting some people are saying they still havent had one i rang again today, this time i got told it could be up to 3rd january lol. the payments are automatically sent out by computer not humans, so its basically how fast the computer can get through them as to when you get your payment, not what i was told tuesday but thats the whole dwp for you, right hand left hand blame the computer lol:T

geoff11

p.s only one payment has been triggered in the uk for £25.

DX2

geoff11 wrote: »

p.s only one payment has been triggered in the uk for £25.

Not true. All of these postcodes have triggered 2 payments.
AB33-36
AB37
PA33
PA35-36
PA38
PA40
PH10-11
PH15-17
PH18
PH19-26
PH30-35
PH37
PH49-50
PH8-9