Cold Weather Payments

Broken_hearted

A network of weather stations covering the whole of Great Britain will gather temperature information. Payments will be made when the local temperature is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees Celsius or below over seven consecutive days.

From their website so not wrong.

marsupial_mama

Just found out that for our area cold weather payment has been initated (Scotland).
You can check your postcode area by following the link in a Cold Weather Payment sticky.

richard9991

The Met Office have notified the Department for Work and Pensions that 1 period of very cold weather has occurred in the WN8 postcode area between 1 November 2010 and 29 November 2010, triggering a Cold Weather Payment.
If you have qualified for Cold Weather Payments since 1 November 2010 and live in this postcode area, you are due to receive 1 Cold Weather Payment.
Please bear in mind that you should not expect payment immediately. It normally takes up to 12 days to process a payment.

CROSBY WEATHER STATION

Lou76

marsupial_mama wrote: »

Just found out that for our area cold weather payment has been initated (Scotland).
You can check your postcode area by following the link in a Cold Weather Payment sticky.

After reading this I decided to check my area again, checked earlier after Sue posted and nothing, but it's now been updated to 1 trigger. :T

DX2

cambermam wrote: »

Care to elaborate?

Cold weather payments are made when average temperatures are recorded or forecast to be zero degrees centigrade or below.

DX2

Broken_hearted wrote: »

A network of weather stations covering the whole of Great Britain will gather temperature information. Payments will be made when the local temperature is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees Celsius or below over seven consecutive days.

From their website so not wrong.

BH love cold weather payments were covered last year on this forum, like you I thought it was over 7 days and if the seventh day the temp rose you didn't get it. It was told differently Trying to think who told me differently :think:

DX2

The Met Office have notified the Department for Work and Pensions that 1 period of very cold weather has occurred in the IV3 postcode area between 1 November 2010 and 29 November 2010, triggering a Cold Weather Payment.
If you have qualified for Cold Weather Payments since 1 November 2010 and live in this postcode area, you are due to receive 1 Cold Weather Payment.
Please bear in mind that you should not expect payment immediately. It normally takes up to 12 days to process a payment.

Edit to add: It certainly hasn't been below zero here for the last seven days!

SMC_2

There has been one CWP trigger in my area.

uolypool

I had my medical on the 11th nov this year, found out that I have been put into the work focused group on ib esa.Have been getting the assessment rate since aug2009, having just looked 1 payment has been triggered where i live since nov 1st 2010 will i qualify for this ?

richard9991

uolypool wrote: »

I had my medical on the 11th nov this year, found out that I have been put into the work focused group on ib esa.Have been getting the assessment rate since aug2009, having just looked 1 payment has been triggered where i live since nov 1st 2010 will i qualify for this ?

yes as you are in the work activity group and get esa ib