Cold Weather Payments: South Wales
(asked on 3rd February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reviewing how postcodes are allocated to weather stations for the purpose of determining the temperature for cold weather payments.
This question was answered on 8th February 2023
The Met Office review the Cold Weather Payment scheme each year to assess whether the linkages between postcode areas and weather stations remain the best available. The Met Office will be conducting their next review this summer once the current Cold Weather Payment season has ended.