Cold Weather Payment: Full list of triggered areas in England and Wales due £25 or more | Personal Finance | Finance
People on certain benefits, including Pension Credit and Universal Credit, may be eligible for the £25 payment, which is made each time the payment is triggered for a postcode. Eligible people may want to check if they are due a payment, as the payments have been triggered twice in recent weeks in some areas.
The payments are triggered in line with temperature recordings and estimates from several weather stations across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Government figures have been published with totals for the number of triggers in England and Wales.
Almost 4.3 million payments have been made in the two countries since the scheme started for this winter, at the start of November, including payments to 1.3 million people on Pension Credit.
This includes just over four million payments in England and almost 250,000 payments in Wales.
The scheme has been replaced in Scotland with the Winter Heating Payment, a one-off £50 payment that goes out to eligible people regardless of the weather conditions.
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Below is a list of all the weather stations in England and Wales where the payments have been activated, including the number of times they have been activated:
- Aberporth – 1
- Albemarle – 2
- Almondsbury – 1
- Andrewsfield – 1
- Bainbridge – 2
- Benson – 2
- Bingley – 2
- Boscombe Down – 1
- Bramham – 1
- Brize Norton – 1
- Capel Curig – 1
- Carlisle – 2
- Charlwood – 1
- Charterhall – 1
- Chivenor – 1
- Coleshill – 1
- Crosby – 1
- Dunkeswell Aerodrome – 1
- Eskdalemuir – 2
- Exeter Airport- 2
- Fylingdales – 1
- Hawarden Airport – 1
- Heathrow – 1
- Hereford – Credenhill – 1
- Herstmonceux West End – 1
- Hurn – 1
- Keele – 1
- Lake Vyrnwy – 1
- Leconfield – 1
- Leek – 1
- Leeming – 1
- Libanus – 2
- Liscombe – 1
- Little Rissington – 2
- Llysdinam – 2
- Loftus – 1
- Marham – 1
- Mona – 1
- Morpeth, Cockle Park – 1
- North Wyke – 1
- Nottingham Watnall – 1
- Odiham – 1
- Pembrey Sands – 1
- Redesdale – 2
- Rhyl – 1
- Rochdale – 2
- Rostherne – 2
- Rothamsted – 1
- Shap – 2
- Shawbury – 1
- Sheffield – 1
- Shoeburyness – 1
- St. Bees Head – 1
- Stonyhurst – 1
- Stowe – 2
- Thorney Island – 1
- Tibenham – 1
- Trawsgoed – 2
- Waddington – 1
- Walney Island – 1
- Wattisham – 1
- Westonbirt – 1
- Wittering – 1
- Woburn – 2
- Yeovilton – 2.
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The benefit tops up the weekly income of people on low incomes, with the Guarantee Credit element increasing a person’s income to £182.60 for single claimants, or to £287.70 for couples.
Claimants can get extra payments on top of this depending on their situation, for example if they have a severe disability or care for another adult.
A person can find out how much they can claim using the Pension Credit calculator tool on the Government website.
Applicants can file their application up to four months before they reach the state pension age, which is currently 66 for men and women.
