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Around 170,000 low income households in 160 postcode areas will receive latest Cold Weather Payments this winter, The United Kingdom for Work and Pensions has announced.

The payment is to help cover their heating costs this winter, this report from London Mirror sates.

Eligible Brits in 160 more postcode areas, including in the Home Counties, Norfolk, Essex, Kent, and Sussex, will get the new payment.

It means around 170,000 low income households are set for a £25 boost to help cover their heating costs.

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Payments have also been triggered to the north and south of London, but so far temperatures haven’t been cold enough at Heathrow weather station to qualify for a payment in the 278 Greater London postcode areas it covers. If that threshold was met, an estimated 577,000 households would be eligible for a payment, at a one-off cost to the government of £14.4million.

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The latest update includes a £25 payment to 4,000 households in Cumbria which are now in line for their third payment of the winter. The 11 postcode areas including Kendal, Keswick and Windermere will receive £75 towards their heating bills after previous cold spells in November and earlier this month.

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Full list of postcodes eligible for the Cold Weather Payment are presented below:

Charlwood weather station (51,000 households)

BN5 – Henfield, West Sussex

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BN6 – Clayton, West Sussex

BN44 – Steyning, West Sussex

GU5 – Wonersh, Surrey

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GU6 – Cranleigh, Surrey

ME6 – Snodland, Kent

ME14 – Maidstone, Kent

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ME15 – Maidstone, Kent

ME16 – Maidstone, Kent

ME17 – Leeds, Kent

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ME18 – West Farleigh, Kent

ME19 – West Malling, Kent

ME20 – Ditton, Kent

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RH1 – Reigate and Banstead, Surrey

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RH2 – Reigate and Banstead, Surrey

RH3 – Brockham, Surrey

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RH4 – Dorking, Surrey

RH5 – Capel, Surrey

RH6 – Horley, Surrey

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RH7 – Lingfield, Surrey

RH8 – Limpsfield, Surrey

Cold Weather Payments

Around 170,000 low income households in 160 postcode areas will receive latest Cold Weather Payments this winter, The Department for Work and Pensions has announced.

RH9 – Godstone, Surrey

RH10 – Crawley, West Sussex

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RH11 – Crawley, West Sussex

RH12 – Horsham, West Sussex

RH13 – Southwater, West Sussex

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RH14 – Wisborough Green, West Sussex

RH15 – Burgess Hill, West Sussex

RH16 – Haywards Heath, West Sussex

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RH17 – Cuckfield Rural, West Sussex

RH18 – Forest Row, East Sussex

RH19 – East Grinstead, West Sussex

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RH20 – Storrington, West Sussex

TN1 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

TN2 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

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TN3 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

TN4 – Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent

TN5 – Wadhurst, East Sussex

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TN6 – Crowborough, East Sussex

TN7 – Hartfield, East Sussex

TN8 – Edenbridge, Kent

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TN9 – Tonbridge, Kent

TN10 – Tonbridge, Kent

TN11 – Tonbridge, Kent

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TN12 – Yalding, Kent

TN13 – Sevenoaks, Kent

TN14 – Dunton Green, Kent

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TN15 – Wrotham, Kent

TN16 – Greater London

TN17 – Cranbrook, Kent

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TN18 – Four Throws, Kent

TN19 – Burwash, East Sussex

TN20 – Mayfield, East Sussex

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TN22 – Uckfield, East Sussex

TN27 – Smarden, Kent

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Andrewsfield weather station (47,000 households)

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CB1 – Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire

CB2 – Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire

CB3 – Hardwick, Cambridgeshire

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CB4 – Impington, Cambridgeshire

CB5 – Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire

CB10 – Saffron Walden, Essex

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CB11 – Newport, Essex

CB21 – Balsham, Cambridgeshire

CB22 – Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire

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CB23 – Highfields, Cambridgeshire

CB24 – Over, Cambridgeshire

CB25 – Lode, Cambridgeshire

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CM1 – Chelmsford, Essex

CM2 – Great Baddow, Essex

CM3 – Danbury, Essex

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Cold Weather PaymentsCM4 – Ingatestone, Essex

CM5 – Ongar, Essex

CM6 – Great Dunmow, Essex

CM7 – Braintree, Essex

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CM8 – Witham, Essex

CM9 – Heybridge, Essex

CM11 – Essex

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CM12 – Billericay, Essex

CM13 – Brentwood, Essex

CM14 – Brentwood, Essex

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CM15 – Brentwood, Essex

CM16 – Epping, Essex

CM17 – Harlow, Essex

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CM18 – Harlow, Essex

CM19 – Harlow, Essex

CM20 – Harlow, Essex

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CM21 – Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire

CM22 – Great Hallingbury, Essex

CM23 – Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire

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CM24 – Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex

CM77 – Braintree, Essex

CO9 – Sible Hedingham, Essex

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RM4 – Stapleford Abbotts, Essex

SG8 – Melbourn, Cambridgeshire

SG9 – Buntingford, Hertfordshire

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SG10 – Much Hadham, Hertfordshire

SG11 – Standon, Hertfordshire

 

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Brize Norton weather station (18,000 households)

 

OX1 – Oxford, Oxfordshire

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OX2 – Oxford, Oxfordshire

OX3 – Oxford, Oxfordshire

OX4 – Oxford, Oxfordshire

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OX5 – Kidlington, Oxfordshire

OX11 – Didcot, Oxfordshire

OX12 – Wantage, Oxfordshire

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OX13 – Marcham, Oxfordshire

OX14 – Culham, Oxfordshire

OX18 – Carterton, Oxfordshire

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OX20 – Woodstock, Oxfordshire

OX25 – Chesterton, Oxfordshire

OX26 – Bicester, Oxfordshire

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OX27 – Fringford, Oxfordshire

OX28 – Witney, Oxfordshire

OX29 – Eynsham, Oxfordshire

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SN7 – Shellingford, Oxfordshire

 

Tibenham weather station (50,000 households)

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NR1 – Norwich, Norfolk

NR2 – Norwich, Norfolk

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NR3 – Norwich, Norfolk

NR4 – Norwich, Norfolk

NR5 – Norwich, Norfolk

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NR6 – Norwich, Norfolk

NR7 – Norwich, Norfolk

NR8 – Taverham, Norfolk

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NR9 – Marlingford, Norfolk

NR10 – Hevingham, Norfolk

NR11 – Erpingham, Norfolk

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NR12 – Smallburgh, Norfolk

NR13 – Blofield, Norfolk

NR14 – Alpington, Norfolk

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NR15 – Hempnall, Norfolk

NR16 – Old Buckenham, Norfolk

NR17 – Attleborough, Norfolk

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NR18 – Wymondham, Norfolk

NR19 – Scarning, Norfolk

NR20 – Swanton Morley, Norfolk

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NR21 – Fakenham, Norfolk

NR22 – Walsingham, Norfolk

NR23 – Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk

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NR24 – Briston, Norfolk

NR25 – Holt, Norfolk

NR26 – Sheringham, Norfolk

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NR27 – Cromer, Norfolk

NR28 – North Walsham, Norfolk

NR29 – Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

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NR30 – Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

NR31 – Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

NR32 – Oulton Broad, Suffolk

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NR33 – Oulton Broad, Suffolk

NR34 – Weston, Suffolk

NR35 – Bungay, Suffolk

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16 January

 

Shap weather station (Third £25 payment this winter for 4,000 households)

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CA10 – Cliburn, Cumbria

CA11 – Catterlen, Cumbria

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CA12 – Keswick, Cumbria

CA16 – Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria

CA17 – Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

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LA8 – Kendal, Cumbria

LA9 – Kendal, Cumbria

LA10 – Sedbergh, Cumbria

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LA21 – Coniston, Cumbria

LA22 – Lakes, Cumbria

LA23 – Windermere, Cumbria

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The announcement comes after the DWP revealed yesterday that payments had been triggered for nearly a million households in 517 postcode areas across Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and the West Midlands.

 

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Cold Weather Payments are made to people in England and Wales who receive a number of benefits. A separate scheme is operated in Northern Ireland along similar lines but in Scotland the support for heating bills is paid every winter and not linked to specific spells of cold weather.

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