A second £25 Cold Weather Payment will be sent to households across Greater Manchester as the cold snap continues. Cold Weather Payments are made when temperatures are recorded, or forecast, to be 0C or below for seven consecutive days.
The scheme runs throughout the winter. People can get a £25 payment for each seven-day period of very cold weather between 1 November 1 and March 31.
So far this winter, the scheme from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has been triggered twice. Last week, it was revealed that hundreds of households across the region would be eligible for the payment for December 5 to December 11, and now the DWP has confirmed that a second payment will be sent out for the period of December 12 to December 18.
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People on certain DWP benefits are eligible for the payments. If you are getting Pension Credit, Income Support or Universal Credit, you may be eligible. People who get income-based Jobseekers Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance may also get the payments.
If you are eligible for the payments, you should see the money automatically land in your bank account within 14 working days of the cold weather period. It will be paid into the same bank or building society account as your benefit payments.
You can find the full terms of eligibility here and check whether your postcode area is due a payment here.
According to the Met Office, the UK will remain cold throughout the rest of the week with a chance of sleet and snow falling at times. However, milder temperatures are expected after the weekend.
Paul Gundersen, Met Office Chief Forecaster, said: “Over the last week, the UK has been held in a northerly airflow bringing cold, sometimes Arctic air, to the UK. We will still have this northerly influence to our weather patterns until the weekend, but then the cold conditions will lose exclusive dominance over the UK’s weather patterns and we will move into a regime where relatively mild and relatively cold conditions will vie for supremacy."
Here is the full list of all the Greater Manchester postcode areas that are due two cold weather payments since the start of November.
Bolton
BL1
BL2
BL3
BL4
BL5
BL6
Bury
BL8
BL9
M25
M26
M45
Manchester
M1
M11
M12
M13
M14
M15
M18
M19
M2
M20
M21
M22
M23
M4
M40
M8
M9
M90
Oldham
M35
OL1
OL2
OL3
OL4
OL8
OL9
Rochdale
M24
OL10
OL11
OL15
OL16
Salford
M27
M28
M3
M30
M38
M44
M5
M50
M6
M7
Stockport
SK1
SK2
SK3
SK4
SK5
SK6
SK7
SK8
Tameside
M34
M43
OL5
OL6
OL7
SK14
SK15
SK16
Trafford
M16
M17
M31
M32
M33
M41
WA14
WA15
Wigan
M29
M46
WN1
WN2
WN3
WN4
WN5
WN6
WN7
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