Cold Weather Payments

uolypool

Yep mine went in on the 8th as well:)

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I received a letter yesterday confirming my first cold weather payment. I live in Bristol and the letter was from a job centre in Plymouth. I have never received anything from this job centre before.

SingleSue

Still nothing in mine, rang the local BDC and they have told me to ring back in two weeks if nothing has appeared in the mean time.

richard9991

pupsicola wrote: »

Which number do your phone to check that you should recieve this payment. Any advice much appreciated.

The one on any letters you have about your benefits excluding dla/social fund

mcjordi

pupsicola wrote: »

Which number do your phone to check that you should recieve this payment. Any advice much appreciated.

i phoned the 0845 number on my letters and spoke to the IS section (thats what i get) she said i was entitled to them but couldnt say weather they had been sent out

cola_bottle

pupsicola wrote: »

Which number do your phone to check that you should recieve this payment. Any advice much appreciated.

My advice is not to bother ringing lol

I made a call today the woman refused to take my NI number or name, and told me to wait for payment, if I say i'm entitled to it, then I will get it, no need for her to check.
If I haven't recieved it by 20th December that is when they would chase it up.

mcjordi

cola_bottle wrote: »

My advice is not to bother ringing lol

I made a call today the woman refused to take my NI number or name, and told me to wait for payment, if I say i'm entitled to it, then I will get it, no need for her to check.
If I haven't recieved it by 20th December that is when they would chase it up.

yet the lass i spoke to was the total opposite. couldnt do enough to help..

Moggymad

Hi,
I received a letter from DWP about the cold weather this morning and it states "You will get a cold weather payment for every week when the average temperature is freezing or below" but on the direct gov website and this site it's stated as "Payments will be made when the local temperature is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees Celsius or below over seven consecutive days." Which info is correct? An average temperature of below freezing for one week is statistically a lot harder to achieve than the temperature going below freezing for the seven day period.

Dreamnine

If the temperature averages 0c or below over a 7 day period you will qualify.

It could be 3c one day and -6 the next but it's the 7 day mean which counts.

moggies

Hello ,My aunt is 90 and lives in Pudsey ,West Yorks,I keep looking on the gov site and it says she has had two triggersto which she has received not one payment yet,she said she called on fri to ask about payments,but she said she had to call Dundee.

I received one payment out of two triggers for the Milton Keynes area and the address on my pensions letter is Cardiff,could anyone advise me if the pensions Yorkshire area comes under Dundee Scotland,and Milton Keynes under Cardiff,Wales ???I presumed all OAP pensions came from Cardiff????as I have promised to enquire for her on Monday,as she easily gets confused.
thank you