Paul Burstow's office received the following memorandum this afternoon, which we thought was worth passing on:
Cold Weather Payments - triggering alert email service
A Department of Work and Pensions Cold Weather Payment has been triggered on the 6/2/2012 by the following Met Office weather station(s) for eligible1 residents in the listed Postcode districts that are part of the Sutton and Cheam Constituency.
The trigger is for the period 30/1/2012 to 5/2/2012.
| Weather station and Postcode districts for Sutton and Cheam constituency |
| Heathrow - KT17, KT4, SM1, SM2, SM3, SM4, SM5, SM7 |
1Further information on the Cold Weather Payments can be found on Parliament's website. To help show the extent and location of these Cold Weather Payment areas an interactive map has been produced. The map will show MetStations that are triggered in blue.
For more information, go to:
A good explanation of Cold Weather Payments can be found here:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/family/2010/12/cold-weather-payments-how-they-work