DWP in new cold weather payments to 95,000 people in 51 areas - full list

There are an estimated 3.9 million people eligible for Cold Weather Payments under the scheme
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The DWP has triggered new Cold Weather Payments for people living in 51 postcode areas, it was announced today (Friday). Around 95,000 eligible households in these regions will receive a £25 payment towards the extra cost of heating their homes during the current cold snap.

The new payments will cover 45 postcode areas around West Yorkshire, including Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield, and extend into parts of East Lancashire, including Burnley. Eligible households in another six postcode districts in North Yorkshire and County Durham will also receive the payments.

Temperatures will continue to fall over the coming days, with the mercury potentially reaching minus 20C in northern parts of the UK on Friday night, the Met Office has forecast. Weather warnings for ice are in place across the majority of Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as large parts of the east of England, until 10am on Friday.

Wednesday’s lowest overnight temperature was minus 12.4C in Inverness-shire and the Met Office has forecast that lower valleys in Scotland could reach between minus 12C and minus 16C on Thursday night. Met Office meteorologist Liam Eslick said: “It’s going to be another cold couple of days, and recovering into the early part of next week. Anywhere across the UK is likely to see those temperatures dipping below freezing and likely to see quite severe frost and ice to form overnight tonight.”

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The latest payments were triggered by a seven-day period of subzero temperatures in these areas which started on 4th January and extends until Saturday.


The full list of new postcodes where payments were triggered on 4th January are:


BB4 Rawtenstall, Lancashire
BB8 Newchurch, Lancashire
BB9 Newchurch, Lancashire
BB10 Burnley, Lancashire
BB11 Burnley, Lancashire
BB12 Ightenhill, Lancashire
BB18 Salterforth, Lancashire
BD1 Bradford city centre
BD2 Eccleshill, Bradford
BD3 Barkerend, Bradford
BD4 Bierley, Bradford
BD5 Bankfoot, Bradford
BD6 Buttershaw, Bradford
BD7 Great Horton, Bradford
BD8 Manningham, Bradford
BD9 Frizinghall, Bradford
BD10 Apperley Bridge, Bradford
BD11 Adwalton, Bradford
BD12 Low Moor, Bradford
BD13 Queensbury, Bradford
BD14 Clayton, Bradford
BD15 Allerton, Bradford
BD16 Bingley
BD17 Shipley
BD18 Saltaire, Shipley
BD19 Cleckheaton
BD20 Keighley
BD21 Hainworth, Keighley
BD22 Cowling, Keighley
HD3 Huddersfield, Kirklees
HD7 Huddersfield, Kirklees
HD8 Kirkburton, Kirklees
HD9 Holme, Kirklees
HX1 Halifax, Calderdale
HX2 Halifax, Calderdale
HX3 Halifax, Calderdale
HX4 Halifax, Calderdale
HX5 Halifax, Calderdale
HX6 Halifax, Calderdale
HX7 Hebden Royd, Calderdale
LS21 Otley, Leeds
LS29 Ilkley, Bradford
OL13 Rawtenstall, Lancashire
OL14 Todmorden, Calderdale
S36 Hunshelf, Barnsley

BD23 Thorlby, North Yorkshire
BD24 Langcliffe, North Yorkshire
DL8 Spennithorne, North Yorkshire
DL11 Marske, North Yorkshire
DL12 Cotherstone, County Durham
DL13 Stanhope, County Durham

A total of more than 100,000 households have been eligible for Cold Weather Payments this winter so far.

You can check payments for your postcode area on our interactive map here:


Previously two separate payments totalling £50 were made to around 10,000 households in 18 postcode areas in Cumbria and Northumberland.

A further eight postcode areas in Northern Ireland have also received a single £25 Cold Weather Payment under a similar separate scheme which is operated by the Northern Ireland Executive, and not the DWP. The payments there were triggered on the 4th January and covered these postcode areas:

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BT24 Ballynahinch
BT25 Dromore
BT26 Hillsborough
BT30 Downpatrick
BT31 Castlewellan
BT32 Banbridge
BT33 Newcastle, Co Down
BT34 Newry, South Down

Cold Weather Payments are made to people in England and Wales who receive a range of benefits. A separate scheme is operated in Northern Ireland along similar lines but in Scotland the support for heating bills is paid every winter and not linked to specific spells of cold weather.

There are an estimated 3.9 million people eligible for Cold Weather Payments under the DWP scheme and of these 1.2 million are in receipt of Pensions Credit.

Last year there were 364,000 payments made across England and Wales at a total cost of £9.1 million. In some areas of Cumbria, the Cold Weather Payments were triggered three times during separate spells of freezing weather last winter, meaning eligible recipients were paid £75 in total.


The DWP says those claiming the following benefits may be eligible for the Cold Weather Payment; Pension Credit, Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Universal Credit, Support for Mortgage Interest.

Not all those receiving these benefits will automatically receive a Cold Weather Payment. There are a number of factors which will determine whether a payment will be made and full details of those eligible are here: https://www.gov.uk/cold-weather-payment/eligibility