DWP Cold Weather Payments mapped - every postcode area eligible for £25 boost

Tens of thousands of households will be getting a one-off payment of £25 from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the coming days to help with heating costs.

Cold Weather Payments will be made in another 51 postcode areas after the DWP confirmed that further households are eligible for the payments amid the recent cold snap.

The new payments announced today cover postcode areas around West Yorkshire, including Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and extend into parts of East Lancashire, including Burnley, as well as areas of North Yorkshire and County Durham.

Cold Weather Payments are made to people in England and Wales who receive certain benefits, such as Pension Credit, Income Support and Universal Credit. There are an estimated 3.9 million people eligible for Cold Weather Payments under the DWP scheme.

Payments are triggered when the temperature is recorded as or forecast to be 0C or below for a period of seven consecutive days. The scheme runs every winter between November and March.

The most recent payments were triggered by a seven-day period of subzero temperatures which started on January 4 and will last until Saturday, January 11.

The interactive map below shows which postcode areas are eligible for Cold Weather Payments. To check whether payments have been triggered in your area, you can enter your postcode.

So far this winter, more than 100,000 households have been eligible for Cold Weather Payments. The first payments of the season were triggered back in November and then further payments were triggered during the first week of January for a handful of areas in northern England.

Last winter, there were 364,000 payments made across England and Wales at a total cost of £9.1 million.

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