DWP sending out January 'bonus' payments and some will receive 'three'
160 areas are eligible for up to £75 Department for Work and Pensions energy bill support. The DWP is handing out Cold Weather Payments worth £25 a pop - and some postcodes are due THREE separate bonuses this month as the winter weather continues.
Eligible households get £25 for every seven-day period their postcode experiences, or is forecast to experience, sub-zero temperatures. Temperatures need to be recorded at the postcode's local weather station.
Notably, some 4,000 households near the Shap weather station will be entitled to their third £25 Cold Weather Payment this winter, coming to £75 in energy bill support overall. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) runs its Cold Weather Payment scheme each year from November to March.
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When the mercury dips below 0C for seven consecutive days, eligible households within the affected postcodes will receive a one-off payment of £25.
Charlwood weather station
BN5 - Henfield, West Sussex
BN6 - Clayton, West Sussex
BN44 - Steyning, West Sussex
GU5 - Wonersh, Surrey
GU6 - Cranleigh, Surrey
ME6 - Snodland, Kent
ME14 - Maidstone, Kent
ME15 - Maidstone, Kent
ME16 - Maidstone, Kent
ME17 - Leeds, Kent
ME18 - West Farleigh, Kent
ME19 - West Malling, Kent
ME20 - Ditton, Kent
RH1 - Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
RH2 - Reigate and Banstead, Surrey
RH3 - Brockham, Surrey
RH4 - Dorking, Surrey
RH5 - Capel, Surrey
RH6 - Horley, Surrey
RH7 - Lingfield, Surrey
RH8 - Limpsfield, Surrey
RH9 - Godstone, Surrey
RH10 - Crawley, West Sussex
RH11 - Crawley, West Sussex
RH12 - Horsham, West Sussex
RH13 - Southwater, West Sussex
RH14 - Wisborough Green, West Sussex
RH15 - Burgess Hill, West Sussex
RH16 - Haywards Heath, West Sussex
RH17 - Cuckfield Rural, West Sussex
RH18 - Forest Row, East Sussex
RH19 - East Grinstead, West Sussex
RH20 - Storrington, West Sussex
TN1 - Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
TN2 - Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
TN3 - Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
TN4 - Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
TN5 - Wadhurst, East Sussex
TN6 - Crowborough, East Sussex
TN7 - Hartfield, East Sussex
TN8 - Edenbridge, Kent
TN9 - Tonbridge, Kent
TN10 - Tonbridge, Kent
TN11 - Tonbridge, Kent
TN12 - Yalding, Kent
TN13 - Sevenoaks, Kent
TN14 - Dunton Green, Kent
TN15 - Wrotham, Kent
TN16 - Greater London
TN17 - Cranbrook, Kent
TN18 - Four Throws, Kent
TN19 - Burwash, East Sussex
TN20 - Mayfield, East Sussex
TN22 - Uckfield, East Sussex
TN27 - Smarden, Kent.
Andrewsfield weather station
CB1 - Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire
CB2 - Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire
CB3 - Hardwick, Cambridgeshire
CB4 - Impington, Cambridgeshire
CB5 - Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire
CB10 - Saffron Walden, Essex
CB11 - Newport, Essex
CB21 - Balsham, Cambridgeshire
CB22 - Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire
CB23 - Highfields, Cambridgeshire
CB24 - Over, Cambridgeshire
CB25 - Lode, Cambridgeshire
CM1 - Chelmsford, Essex
CM2 - Great Baddow, Essex
CM3 - Danbury, Essex
CM4 - Ingatestone, Essex
CM5 - Ongar, Essex
CM6 - Great Dunmow, Essex
CM7 - Braintree, Essex
CM8 - Witham, Essex
CM9 - Heybridge, Essex
CM11 - Essex
CM12 - Billericay, Essex
CM13 - Brentwood, Essex
CM14 - Brentwood, Essex
CM15 - Brentwood, Essex
CM16 - Epping, Essex
CM17 - Harlow, Essex
CM18 - Harlow, Essex
CM19 - Harlow, Essex
CM20 - Harlow, Essex
CM21 - Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire
CM22 - Great Hallingbury, Essex
CM23 - Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire
CM24 - Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex
CM77 - Braintree, Essex
CO9 - Sible Hedingham, Essex
RM4 - Stapleford Abbotts, Essex
SG8 - Melbourn, Cambridgeshire
SG9 - Buntingford, Hertfordshire
SG10 - Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
SG11 - Standon, Hertfordshire.
Brize Norton weather station
OX1 - Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX2 - Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX3 - Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX4 - Oxford, Oxfordshire
OX5 - Kidlington, Oxfordshire
OX11 - Didcot, Oxfordshire
OX12 - Wantage, Oxfordshire
OX13 - Marcham, Oxfordshire
OX14 - Culham, Oxfordshire
OX18 - Carterton, Oxfordshire
OX20 - Woodstock, Oxfordshire
OX25 - Chesterton, Oxfordshire
OX26 - Bicester, Oxfordshire
OX27 - Fringford, Oxfordshire
OX28 - Witney, Oxfordshire
OX29 - Eynsham, Oxfordshire
SN7 - Shellingford, Oxfordshire.
Tibenham weather station
NR1 - Norwich, Norfolk
NR2 - Norwich, Norfolk
NR3 - Norwich, Norfolk
NR4 - Norwich, Norfolk
NR5 - Norwich, Norfolk
NR6 - Norwich, Norfolk
NR7 - Norwich, Norfolk
NR8 - Taverham, Norfolk
NR9 - Marlingford, Norfolk
NR10 - Hevingham, Norfolk
NR11 - Erpingham, Norfolk
NR12 - Smallburgh, Norfolk
NR13 - Blofield, Norfolk
NR14 - Alpington, Norfolk
NR15 - Hempnall, Norfolk
NR16 - Old Buckenham, Norfolk
NR17 - Attleborough, Norfolk
NR18 - Wymondham, Norfolk
NR19 - Scarning, Norfolk
NR20 - Swanton Morley, Norfolk
NR21 - Fakenham, Norfolk
NR22 - Walsingham, Norfolk
NR23 - Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
NR24 - Briston, Norfolk
NR25 - Holt, Norfolk
NR26 - Sheringham, Norfolk
NR27 - Cromer, Norfolk
NR28 - North Walsham, Norfolk
NR29 - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
NR30 - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
NR31 - Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
NR32 - Oulton Broad, Suffolk
NR33 - Oulton Broad, Suffolk
NR34 - Weston, Suffolk
NR35 - Bungay, Suffolk.
Shap weather station
CA10 - Cliburn, Cumbria
CA11 - Catterlen, Cumbria
CA12 - Keswick, Cumbria
CA16 - Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria
CA17 - Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria
LA8 - Kendal, Cumbria
LA9 - Kendal, Cumbria
LA10 - Sedbergh, Cumbria
LA21 - Coniston, Cumbria
LA22 - Lakes, Cumbria
LA23 - Windermere, Cumbria.