The £25 payment has been triggered in more than 500 postcode areas
The £25 payment has been triggered in more than 500 postcode areas
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will be issuing a special payment to households across England and Wales due to the chilly weather. Cold Weather Payments have been triggered in more than 500 postcode areas.
The automatic payments are handed out to certain people if the average temperature in the areas where they live is recorded as, or forecast to be, 0C or below over seven consecutive days. Due to the cold weather last week, criteria for issuing the payments has been met.
Many parts of England and Wales are impacted – including the West Midlands, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. It is understood that the £25 payment will be made to about 950,000 households.
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You could be eligible for Cold Weather Payments if you receive Pension Credit, Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Universal Credit, Support for Mortgage Interest, Mirror reports.
Gov.uk says: “You’ll get £25 for each seven day period of very cold weather between November 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025.”
Full list of Midlands postcode areas that will receive latest Cold Weather Payments
Coleshill weather station
- B1 Birmingham
- B2 Birmingham
- B3 Birmingham
- B4 Birmingham
- B5 Birmingham
- B6 Birmingham
- B7 Birmingham
- B8 Birmingham
- B9 Birmingham
- B10 Birmingham
- B11 Birmingham
- B12 Birmingham
- B13 Birmingham
- B14 Birmingham
- B15 Birmingham
- B16 Birmingham
- B17 Birmingham
- B18 Birmingham
- B19 Birmingham
- B20 Birmingham
- B21 Birmingham
- B23 Birmingham
- B24 Birmingham
- B25 Birmingham
- B26 Birmingham
- B27 Birmingham
- B28 Birmingham
- B29 Birmingham
- B30 Birmingham
- B31 Birmingham
- B32 Birmingham
- B33 Birmingham
- B34 Birmingham
- B35 Birmingham
- B36 Castle Bromwich, Solihull
- B37 Chelmsley Wood, Solihull
- B38 Tees Grove, Birmingham
- B40 Bickenhill, Solihull
- B42 Birmingham
- B43 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B44 Birmingham
- B45 Birmingham
- B46 Coleshill, Warwickshire
- B47 Wythall, Worcestershire
- B48 Alvechurch, Worcestershire
- B49 Alcester, Warwickshire
- B50 Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
- B60 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
- B61 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
- B62 Hurst Green, Dudley
- B63 Hurst Green, Dudley
- B64 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B65 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B66 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B67 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B68 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B69 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B70 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B71 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- B72 Birmingham
- B73 Birmingham
- B74 Birmingham
- B75 Birmingham
- B76 Birmingham
- B77 Tamworth, Staffordshire
- B78 Tamworth, Staffordshire
- B79 Wigginton, Staffordshire
- B80 Studley, Warwickshire
- B90 Solihull
- B91 Solihull
- B92 Solihull
- B93 Dorridge, Solihull
- B94 Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire
- B95 Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire
- B96 Redditch, Worcestershire
- B97 Redditch, Worcestershire
- B98 Redditch, Worcestershire
- CV1 Coventry
- CV2 Coventry
- CV3 Coventry
- CV4 Coventry
- CV5 Coventry
- CV6 Coventry
- CV7 Hawkes End, Coventry
- CV8 Kenilworth, Warwickshire
- CV9 Atherstone, Warwickshire
- CV10 Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- CV11 Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- CV12 Bedworth, Warwickshire
- CV21 Rugby, Warwickshire
- CV22 Rugby, Warwickshire
- CV23 Dunchurch, Warwickshire
- CV31 Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
- CV32 Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
- CV33 Radford Semele, Warwickshire
- CV34 Warwick, Warwickshire
- CV35 Wasperton, Warwickshire
- CV37 Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire
- CV47 Ladbroke, Warwickshire
- DY1 Dudley
- DY2 Dudley
- DY3 Dudley
- DY4 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- DY5 Dudley
- DY6 Dudley
- DY7 Kinver, Staffordshire
- DY8 Dudley
- DY9 Dudley
- DY10 Kidderminster, Worcestershire
- DY11 Kidderminster, Worcestershire
- DY12 Upper Arley, Worcestershire
- DY13 Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire
- DY14 Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire
- LE10 Hinckley, Leicestershire
- WS1 Walsall
- WS2 Walsall
- WS3 Willenhall, Walsall
- WS4 Walsall
- WS5 Walsall
- WS6 Great Wyrley, Staffordshire
- WS7 Burntwood, Staffordshire
- WS8 Brownhills, Walsall
- WS9 Aldridge, Walsall
- WS10 West Bromwich, Sandwell
- WS11 Cannock, Staffordshire
- WS12 Cannock, Staffordshire
- WS13 Lichfield, Staffordshire
- WS14 Swinfen and Packington, Staffordshire
- WS15 Brereton, Staffordshire
- WV1 Wolverhampton
- WV2 Wolverhampton
- WV3 Wolverhampton
- WV4 Wolverhampton
- WV5 Wombourne, Staffordshire
- WV6 Wolverhampton
- WV7 Albrighton, Shropshire
- WV8 Bilbrook, Staffordshire
- WV9 Wolverhampton
- WV10 Wednesfield, Wolverhampton
- WV11 Wednesfield, Wolverhampton
- WV12 Willenhall, Walsall
- WV13 Willenhall, Walsall
- WV14 Wednesfield, Wolverhampton
- WV15 Bridgnorth, Shropshire
- WV16 Chetton, Shropshire
Little Rissington weather station
- CV36 Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire
- WR12 Broadway, Worcestershire
Keele weather station (49,000 households)
- ST15 Stone, Staffordshire
- ST16 Stafford, Staffordshire
- ST17 Stafford, Staffordshire
- ST18 Hopton, Staffordshire
- ST19 Penkridge, Staffordshire
- ST20 Gnosall, Staffordshire
- ST21 Eccleshall, Staffordshire
Llysdinam weather station (4,000 households)
- SY7 Hopesay, Shropshire
- SY9Lydham, Shropshire
Shawbury weather station (27,000 households)
- SY1 Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- SY2 Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- SY3 Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- SY4 Myddle, Shropshire
- SY5 Longden, Shropshire
- SY6 Church Stretton, Shropshire
- SY11 Oswestry, Shropshire
- SY12 Ellesmere, Shropshire
- SY13 Whitchurch Rural, Shropshire
- TF1 Wellington, Telford and Wrekin
- TF2 St Georges and Priorslee, Telford and Wrekin
- TF3 Hollinswood, Telford and Wrekin
- TF4 Telford, Telford and Wrekin
- TF5 Wellington, Telford and Wrekin
- TF6 Rodington, Telford and Wrekin
- TF7 Madeley, Telford and Wrekin
- TF8 The Gorge, Telford and Wrekin
- TF9 Sutton upon Tern, Shropshire
- TF10 Newport, Telford and Wrekin
- TF11 Shifnal, Shropshire
- TF12 Broseley, Shropshire
- TF13 Much Wenlock, Shropshire