Extra bit of ESA payment?

JayWoff88

Hey Guys

i get paid £239odd every 2 weeks as part of the support group on ESA

but i have been given a seperate payment of £25 and i dont know why

anyone else had this?

Cpt.Scarlet

Sounds like a Cold Weather payment

Horseunderwater

JayWoff88 wrote: »

Hey Guys

i get paid £239odd every 2 weeks as part of the support group on ESA

but i have been given a seperate payment of £25 and i dont know why

anyone else had this?

At the top of this forum is a thread called cold weather payments - on the first post there is a link to check your postcode - type in and click on submit. It will tell you how many CWP's have been triggered in your area. There will be at least one as you have got £25 already in your account. We ESA's on Income related sort qualify automatically as we are classed as venerable. You get one for each 7 days of forecast zero temp weather - so far I have 2 triggered, though yet to physically get it in Bank account. You may well get a letter shortly explaining it all to you, but that is what it will be. It is to help you pay for running your Central heating at a higher and longer time/temp during very cold snaps. Or if you have another type of boiler to buy extra oil or electric?

SmokeBreak

Just checked my account via yorkshire bank online and I have the same payment, a straight £25 extra on top of what I usually get. Had more than 1 week where the weather has been 0 degrees though surely, I live in Yorkshire!

SmokeBreak

Thank's for help clearing this up by the way

richard9991

JayWoff88 wrote: »

Hey Guys

i get paid £239odd every 2 weeks as part of the support group on ESA

but i have been given a seperate payment of £25 and i dont know why

anyone else had this?

the link tells you all about it
https://www.gov.uk/cold-weather-payment

satarical

Horseunderwater wrote: »

We ESA's on Income related sort qualify automatically as we are classed as venerable. You get one for each 7 days of forecast zero temp weather - so far I have 2 triggered, though yet to physically get it in Bank account. You may well get a letter shortly explaining it all to you, but that is what it will be. It is to help you pay for running your Central heating at a higher and longer time/temp during very cold snaps. Or if you have another type of boiler to buy extra oil or electric?

I will take issue with you on two points.
1. You insult those that receive ESA on a contributory basis as not being vulnerable. Receiving a means tested benefit does not automatically mean that they are vulnerable. There are many 'vulnerable' people who receive ESA(C) and many more that don't claim any sickness or disability based benefits. You don't have the monopoly of it.
2. Most people in this country budget for their heating and power by making regular equal payments every month. These payments are calculated by averaging the most expensive months with the cheapest months. I pay £83 a month for gas and electric no matter how much I use or what the weather is. Why then do you consider it acceptable to receive £25 everytime if it goes cold? You will have covered that cost out of the monthly payment.

onetomany

whats esa work program?

Horseunderwater

satarical wrote: »

I will take issue with you on two points.
1. You insult those that receive ESA on a contributory basis as not being vulnerable. Receiving a means tested benefit does not automatically mean that they are vulnerable. There are many 'vulnerable' people who receive ESA(C) and many more that don't claim any sickness or disability based benefits. You don't have the monopoly of it.
2. Most people in this country budget for their heating and power by making regular equal payments every month. These payments are calculated by averaging the most expensive months with the cheapest months. I pay £83 a month for gas and electric no matter how much I use or what the weather is. Why then do you consider it acceptable to receive £25 everytime if it goes cold? You will have covered that cost out of the monthly payment.

Well EXCUSE me for living and being so bloody ill. I was actually quoting the DWP guidelines on who the DWP class as vulnerable and yes I do budget for my heating, but I am on pre payment meter not a credit account, which is how I want it as I like to control my money and not have some energy company claiming money that they are not entitled to at the drop of a hat. Have you been on the gas / elect board lately? Makes interesting reading on all the problems others have with DD's and credit accounts! And when both my OH and myself worked full time - we never got any help from anyone in all those years and if I were not so flippin ill I'd still be working. OH lost his job in September and in the current climate with no qualifications will find it very hard to get another one - he will be 53 this year. I hope that we will be able to work from home at some point in future, but for now he needs to be at home with myself as my carer. My illness is incurable by the way and no cure is being sought by the NHS.