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

The seasonal DWP benefit will be closing in weeks ...

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 ...

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

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

A total of 18 ST postcodes covering Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire have been triggered - full list ...

Meanwhile, Morpeth weather station near Chester-le-Street recorded similar conditions for seven days in a row, with the DWP ...

1.5 million households across England and Wales so far this winter.

It’s worth checking your eligibility so you don’t miss out on money you’re entitled to ...

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

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