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  1. Overview
  2. Eligibility
  3. What you need to do
  4. When youll get paid
  5. Hospital stays

Overview

You may get Cold Weather Payments if youre getting certain benefits or Support for Mortgage Interest.

If youre eligible, youll get these payments automatically. You do not need to apply, but you may need to report a change in circumstances if you have a baby or if a child under 5 comes to live with you.

The payments do not affect your other benefits.

This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg) and in an easy read format.

Youll get a payment if the average temperature in your area is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees celsius or below over 7 consecutive days.

Youll get 25 for each 7-day period of very cold weather between 1 November 2025 and 31 March 2026.

Find out if the weather where you live means you may get a payment.

Check a postcode in England or Wales.

Check a postcode in Northern Ireland.

Cold Weather Payments are different to Winter Fuel Payments.

If you live in Scotland

You cannot get Cold Weather Payments.

You might get an annual Winter Heating Payment instead. Youll get this payment regardless of weather conditions in your area.

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