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Replace UK Cold Weather Payments with a £50 grant via the new Winter Heating Payment
Last updated 3 years ago
SNP Manifesto 2021, p.50Cold Weather Payments of £25 are too restrictive and pay out too infrequently. We will replace them with a new £50 Winter Heating Payment paid annually to those low-income households currently eligible for the UK Cold Weather Payments…
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This promise is in progress. In December 2021, the Scottish Government launched a consultation on replacing the Cold Weather Payment with Low Income Winter Heating Assistance, which would pay out a guaranteed £50 per year from Winter 2022-23.
“New winter heating benefit” (Scottish Government, December 1st 2021)
Consultation on Low Income Winter Heating Assistance (Scottish Government, 1st December 2021)