Cold weather payments: quickly check if you're entitled

DX2

dc64 wrote: »

i dont know DX2 but think no as i live alone

DLA has nothing to do with living alone.

E2A:
Disability Living Allowance - sometimes referred to as DLA - is a tax-free benefit for children and adults who need help with personal care or have walking difficulties because they are physically or mentally disabled.

fordie77

Hi ya

Think we are due 3 payments and im sure we havent had any how would they have been paid?

Thanks

Carly

didimbeach

Martynthemoose, I live in the same area as you (RM3) just checked the postcode checker again and low and behold still no trigger, I'm now thinking that the weather station at Gravesend has obviously got thermal lagging around it, whereas our properties have thick snow, lovely glassey ice and freezing temps!!!!!!

RM4 which is 2 minutes from me has just been triggered for a 3rd time, their weather station is Heathrow, it just does not make sense, they are have exactly the same conditions as RM3 yet no triggers for us still.

DX2

fordie77 wrote: »

Hi ya

Think we are due 3 payments and im sure we havent had any how would they have been paid?

Thanks

Carly

Do you get the qualifying benefits?

DX2

crystal9 wrote: »

Quote:
Originally Posted by crystal9
hi, thanks for your reply, im not sure actually but i get higher rate dla if thats any help

thanks again

Do you IS or JSA?



its income support we get 69.55 every 2 weeks

I missed your other post :doh: yes you are eligible

Robbie64

liquidstool wrote: »

Well said.

On a different tack:
The Met Office have notified the Department for Work and Pensions that 3 periods of very cold weather have occurred in the SN10 postcode area between 1 November 2009 and 8 January 2010, triggering Cold Weather Payments.
If you have qualified for Cold Weather Payments since 1 November 2009 and live in this postcode area, you are due to receive 3 Cold Weather Payments.

Only recieved on of these so far, dated 31/12/09, i'm assuming one will be for this week, and have no idea when the first one was for. Is there a cutoff point in contacting them to chase it up? i mean the first one could have been due the first week of November couldn't it, and who would i call to check?

The 1 November is the first day that the Cold Weather Payment scheme runs from (it's 1 November to 31 March) which is why that date will always be quoted in the postcode checker feature. All CWPs triggered so far this winter in the UK have been triggered from dates in December onwards.

If you've had one payment arrive without a problem then (in theory!) the others should all be sent automatically. If you got one dated 31 December then the second should be on its way sometime soon - it really depends on which date a CWP is triggered and then you have to allow about a week after this date for a payment to arrive. It's possible that the 3rd period of cold weather (each period covers 7 consecutive days for CWP purposes) was triggered soon after the second period of cold weather was declared which means two payments at once can be outstanding.

I'd give it a few more days for at least the second payment to arrive.

DX2

Robbie64 wrote: »

I'd give it a few more days for at least the second payment to arrive.

Robbie what happens if say for example you are eligible for 3/4 CWP's and you haven't even had the first one

Spangle1_2

We live at CO5 postcode area and we have not received any payment and have not been notified that we maybe ledgible for a payment either. I have checked the postcode checker and we should be entitled to 3 payments! We will be investigating further!!!

DX2

Spangle1 wrote: »

We live at CO5 postcode area and we have not received any payment and have not been notified that we maybe ledgible for a payment either. I have checked the postcode checker and we should be entitled to 3 payments! We will be investigating further!!!

Do you get the qualifying benefits?

Robbie64

DX2 wrote: »

Robbie what happens if say for example you are eligible for 3/4 CWP's and you haven't even had the first one

I'd definitely be getting in touch with the DWP if that was the case as (assuming 3 or 4 CWP payments had been triggered) the first CWP will have been triggered just before or at Christmas and even allowing for Bank Holidays should have been in your bank / post office account by about the new year. In fact the second payment should be arriving in your account by now with a third on its way. Not many places have triggered 4 CWPs so I don't know what the trigger dates for those places are likely to be.