DWP sending out January 'bonus' payments and some will receive 'three'

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.
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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.