Cold Weather Payments are designed to support vulnerable households during spells of severe weather throughout the winter ...

The Met Office has issued further weather warnings today ...

DWP pays out £35m in Cold Weather Payments – how to check your area - Over £35 million has been spent on the scheme this year ...

Storm Goretti has hit the UK with strong winds and heavy snow expected to hit some regions of the country. The storm comes after Britain was already hit with sub-zero temperatures since the end of ...

Payments are issued when temperatures are recorded or forecast to be zero degrees Celsius or lower for seven consecutive days ...

Cold weather payments worth £25 have been paid to nearly 1.5 million households across England and Wales so far this winter, ...

Around 1.5 million eligible households have received the £25 payments towards their heating bills during spells of sub-zero conditions in the last few months ...

January and February have been wet and cold months ...

So far, more than 1,009,000 Pension Age Winter Heating Payments have been issued ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cold weather payments were issued to more than one million households in January (Rosemary Roberts) Millions of people in England ...