Cold Weather Payments: Wales
(asked on 14th December 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Wales were eligible for the Cold Weather Payment and lived in a postcode area where Cold Weather Payments were made in that year (a) overall and (b) by whether eligibility derived from (i) receipt of pension credit or (ii) universal credit or other legacy benefits for each of the last 10 financial years.
Please see below Cold Weather Payments for Wales, by year.
Year | Cold Weather Triggers | Total households eligible | Total households eligible, in receipt of Pension Credit (as a subset of total households) | Number of payments made | Number of payments made to Households in receipt of Pension Credit |
21/22 | 0 | 245,000 | 81,000 | 0 | 0 |
20/21 | 8 | 250,000 | 87,000 | 140,000 | 47,000 |
19/20 | 0 | 228,000 | 91,000 | 0 | 0 |
18/19 | 2 | 240,000 | 96,000 | 64,000 | 24,000 |
17/18 | 18 | 244,000 | 101,000 | 330,000 | 135,000 |
16/17 | 0 | 251,000 | 111,000 | 0 | 0 |
15/16 | 0 | 252,000 | 117,000 | 0 | 0 |
14/15 | 2 | 230,000 | 128,000 | 8,000 | 5,000 |
13/14 | 0 | Data unavailable | Data unavailable | 0 | 0 |
- A household is classed as eligible for Cold Weather Payments if it satisfies eligibility criteria, such as receipt of a qualifying benefit
- A household will receive at least one Cold Weather Payment if it satisfies eligibility criteria and a cold weather trigger occurs in their postcode area, hence years with fewer cold weather triggers, fewer households were in receipt of at least one payment.
- Total Households eligible in receipt of UC or other legacy benefits is equivalent to total eligible households minus total eligible households in receipt of pension credit.
- For the year 2013/14, the estimated number of eligible households in Wales is not published.
- For year 2012/13 data broken down for Wales was not published, and therefore is not included here.
- Figures are rounded to nearest 1000