Cold Weather Payments: Wakefield
(asked on 7th December 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in Wakefield constituency were (a) eligible for and (b) received Cold Weather Payments from 1 November 2020 to 4 December 2020.
This question was answered on 14th December 2020
Cold weather payments are triggered when the average temperature recorded at the weather station has been recorded as, or is forecast to be, 0oC or below over seven consecutive days, during the Cold Weather season (November to March).
There have been no cold weather triggers in the period 1 November 2020 to 4 December 2020, resulting in 0 payments to eligible claimants in the Wakefield Constituency.