Winter Fuel Payment - Can I get a Winter Fuel Payment?

You will be eligible if:

• You were born before 23 September 1958 for winter 2024 to 2025 (the date changes every year),

and you get one of the following benefits:

• Pension Credit
• Income Support 
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)
• Universal Credit

and

And you received one of these benefits during the ‘qualifying week’, which is between 16 September and 22 September 2024.

and

• You live in the UK. In some circumstances, you might be eligible if you live abroad (see below).

If you live abroad

If you live in another European Economic Area country or Switzerland, you may still be eligible if you have a genuine link with the UK (excluding Cyprus, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain).

A 'genuine and sufficient' link to the UK could include having lived or worked in the UK, or have family in the UK.

You must also have moved to an eligable country before 1 January 2021.

If you meet the qualifying age but you live in a care home, you get a reduced payment. You will not be eligible if both of the following apply:

• you get Pension Credit, income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), or Income Support
• you lived in a care home for the whole time from 24 June to September 2024.