Cold Weather Payments

Gleek

Robbie64 wrote: »

Latest DWP Cold Weather Payment information release for weather stations triggering on 7 December can be found here http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/socfund/sf_cold_payts_07_dec_2010.pdf

It also shows how many triggers each weather station has reported to the DWP.

The data from these stations should be showing on the postcode checker from today.

Thanks for that.

Here is todays: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/socfund/sf_cold_payts_08_dec_2010.pdf

I guess editing the number each day might get you the others when they are available

Robbie64

Gleek wrote: »

Thanks for that.

Here is todays: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/socfund/sf_cold_payts_08_dec_2010.pdf

I guess editing the number each day might get you the others when they are available

That must have just been added in the past 10 minutes or so! The last one showing at the main DWP CWP information page ( http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/index.php?page=socf_cwp ) was 7 December when I copied the link!

Broken_hearted

While it was lovely to get the payment. Can someone please turn up the heat.

Robbie64

DX2 wrote: »

Fair enough but my point still stands that the cwp last year and this year was/is £25 not £10 like the other poster thinks, which makes me think it is a christmas bonus.

At the time I answered I hadn't read the post by the person you were responding to. Yes, I agree, it sounds like a Christmas Bonus rather than a CWP. But the OP states he or she doesn't qualify for a CB but received two payments of £10. That sounds like two CB payments, which is even more confusing...

richard9991

Another payment triggered today for wn8 area crosby weather station

skylight

My 2nd trigger for SL2 on the 2nd Dec has been paid today (8th Dec).

cola_bottle

2 Triggers for DE2 I have not recieved owt yet, (Nottingham Watnall weather station iirc)
Have tried calling the local DWP to ask when it will be sent, the person I spoke to said I am not entitled as my child is 8, even though he is in receipt of DLA, I receive CA, Income support and C.Tax with a disability element, I know for certain I am entitled but this woman tells me different. :mad:

Do these people not know their own "rules of entitlement"

brogusblue

I had a text from my bank to say i had 1 had been paid today .. so i am still owed 1 more so it looks like for me a trigger monday and payment wednesday?? ..

WhiteHorse

What's annoying is that people in receipt of Incapacity benefit don't qualify. They're not working (reduced income), and are obviously unwell, yet they are supposed to get on with it!

Robbie64

WhiteHorse wrote: »

What's annoying is that people in receipt of Incapacity benefit don't qualify. They're not working (reduced income), and are obviously unwell, yet they are supposed to get on with it!

Cold Weather Payments started life as Exceptionally Severe Weather Payments paid under the predecessor benefit to Income Support (Supplementary Benefit) and have always been intended as a payment to people on means tested benefits.

I agree that some people do lose out because of the rather strict rules. Though the rules under Supplementary Benefit were a lot stricter so more people gain now. For example, back then the qualifying age for children was a child aged under 2 rather than a child aged under 5 and in addition the temperature had to be an average of -1.5c and running from a Monday to Sunday. And even that was an improvement on an earlier scheme that just compared bills over a 13 week period in winter to the corresponding period from the previous winter.