DWP STILL paying state pensioners born before this date £300 winter payment

The Department for Work and Pensions will STILL pay state pensioners born before this date a £300 Winter Fuel Payment - if they are eligible. You can qualify for a Winter Fuel Payment from the DWP this year if you were born before 23rd September 1958 and live in Scotland, England, or Wales.

That's if you are ALSO receiving one of the specified benefits. In certain circumstances, you may be eligible even if you live abroad. The benefits include Pension Credit, Universal Credit and Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).

The benefits also include Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA), Income Support, Working Tax or Child Tax Credits. You won't be eligible if are not in receipt of one of the means-tested benefits listed above and have been in hospital getting free treatment for more than a year.

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You won't qualify if you need permission to enter the UK and your granted leave says that you cannot claim public funds or were in prison for the whole of the qualifying week of September 16 to 22, 2024, the DWP has also gone on to say.

If you live alone, you'll receive either £200 if you were born between September 23, 1944 and September 22, 1958 or £300 if you were born before September 23, 1944. If you live with someone and jointly claim any of the benefits, one of you will receive a payment of either £200 if both of you were born between September 23, 1944 and September 22, 1958 pr £300 if one or both of you were born before September 23, 1944.

If you live in a care home and are eligible, you'll receive either £100 if you were born between September 23, 1944 and September 22, 1958 or £150 if you were born before September 23, 1944, the DWP has stipulated.