Cold weather payments: quickly check if you're entitled

JDPower

cateb wrote: »

As I have a child under 5 and live in a cold weather area as designated by the Gov website, apparently i am entitled to £25 per week towards heating costs! How do i receive this if i receive no government benefits except child tax credits?

Please read the first post, you are not eligible

JDPower

ticvoria wrote: »

Very interested in this - think I am eligible due to receipt of benefit for 3 payments due in my postal area, but have not received any. Will definitely chase this up - thanks.

Only the benefits listed in the first post are eligible?

SingleSue

And here are the salient details

You may be eligible for a Cold Weather Payment if you get Pension Credit or income-related Employment and Support Allowance with a support or work related activity component in the main phase.

You may also be eligible for a Cold Weather Payment for each qualifying week if you are getting Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance or income-related Employment and Support Allowance in the assessment phase and have one of the following:

• a pensioner premium, higher pensioner premium or enhanced pensioner premium
• a disability premium, enhanced disability premium or severe disability premium
• a disabled child premium
• Child Tax Credit that includes a disability or severe disability element
• a child who is under five in the family

See full details on Direct Gov.

SingleSue

Whiteknight wrote: »

Been reading this thread and there seems to be some confusion regarding the Cold Weather Payments. You should not need to be spending hours on the telephone chasing up when you are going to get paid this additional money. If you are getting a qualifying benefit the payment will be made automatically to you. The systems will run a scan and identify all eligible people and then issue payments. So my advice would be to wait and check your bank accounts if after a few weeks you have not had the payments then contact the relevant department (the one paying your qualifying benefit) and they can look into it.

Those people currently applying for one of the qualifying benefits which are being backdated should also check if the CWP payments have made once the benefit is in payment!

For those of us who receive the severe disability element for a child in the CTC instead of included in the IS (and who are also receiving IS), we have been waiting more than a few weeks...my first trigger was the 18th of December!

There was a problem with this group last year, which IS thought had been resolved...but it is a problem again this year.

VeeW

I have checked & I am elligible for 4 cold weather payments however I have rec'd nothing as yet

richard9991

VeeW wrote: »

I have checked & I am elligible for 4 cold weather payments however I have rec'd nothing as yet

do yo get is or jsa

DX2

cateb wrote: »

As I have a child under 5 and live in a cold weather area as designated by the Gov website, apparently i am entitled to £25 per week towards heating costs! How do i receive this if i receive no government benefits except child tax credits?

Simple you don't! You are not eligible you need to be claiming IS/JSA/ESA

ticvoria wrote: »

Very interested in this - think I am eligible due to receipt of benefit for 3 payments due in my postal area, but have not received any. Will definitely chase this up - thanks.

Do you get IS/JSA/ESA?

VeeW wrote: »

I have checked & I am elligible for 4 cold weather payments however I have rec'd nothing as yet

Do you get IS/JSA/ESA?

nataliet83

i have 2 small children 5 months and 4 years, there both getting ill because i cant afford too heat the house! ive been offered nothing!

DX2

xXxSammi88xXx wrote: »

This is stressing me out now.I've been on the phone all afternoon to loads of different departments.Phoned local jobcentre who gave me the main job centre number which gives me 4 options so I press 1 and talk to income support.She says I have to dial that number again and press 2 which is the job seekers allowance department and they'll be able to tell me so I do that and they tell me I have to phone a number which is the main job centre number giving me those 4 options yet again.I give up!

What benefits do you get? You need to phone your BDC, so if you get IS you phone and ask IS.

DX2

AmberDragon wrote: »

I'm getting disability benefit (high rate care and high rate mobility) along with incapacity benefit. I've looked on the internet and I have been getting the run around on the phone. No one seems willing to tell me if I am entitled to the cold weather payments and if I am what I have to do to get them, there have been three triggered in my area so far and I have not had any payments.

Please can someone help and let me know who I ask and what the secret handshake or word is because I am so fed-up with being bounced around DWP, Job Centre and Direct.gov.;)

Thanks

Amber stop wasting yor time and money you're not entitled.

tresha wrote: »

I get Dla for my son, low rate mobility and medium care. I'm on income support and child tax credits. I did get the payments last year but i was on income support then not child tax credits. They changed me over a few months ago. I think i do get a special needs child premium or something on my tax credits. The postcode checker says there are 3 periods of cold weather payments due. As yet i have not recieved any.

tresha do you get CA (carers allowance)? If so you will get an IS top up and you will be eligible to get a CWP, these are taking a while to come out as the DWP have to manually sort these out.