wonder who gets the cold weather paymemt

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here
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7813987.stm

Cold weather payments are made to people who are in receipt of at least one of the following for at least one day in the relevant week:
? pension credit (but who are not living in a care home)
? income support or income-based JSA and have a child aged under 5 living in their family
? income support or income-based JSA and have a child for whom they are entitled to child tax credit including an amount for disability or severe disability
? income support or income-based JSA and have one of the following premiums included in their applicable amount: disability, severe disability, disabled child, pensioner, higher pensioner or enhanced pensioner premium

thanks ladymuck i didnt put it right lol i meant which area (postcode) but yes thats right

one per houseold

Does anyone know of any utility providers (gas/electric) which give you a lower rate for just being in receipt of DLA and no other benefits?

Have been looking but can only find confiormation that londoners get it

temp here predictd to rise to 1 for maybe an hour which negates today from their calculations (-11 last night though)

I thought it was based on a weekly average Peachy?

no sadly u need 7 days in row below freezing ,

No I mean, that it is an average of 0 or below for seven consecutive days.

I took that to mean if it is -11 at night and say +3 in the daytime, the average for that day would surely qualify.

Or have I totally misunderstood?

I always hated averages, mean, median, etc.

it is the average temp- i think they check it every hour and work out the average each day. if the average is below freezing for seven consecutive days they pay up.

yes sorry- what i meant was although its been - for several days, going to -11 last night (had a dh out in it on nights poor sod) today ahs averaged as 1 degree

does anyone know if they will be paying out more cold weather payments due to the weather this week?