Residents across parts of Co Armagh are in line to benefit from a bout of cold weather payments.
The latest spell of cold weather has triggered the latest round for various parts of Northern Ireland.
A total £1million will be paid automatically to approximately 43,000 people who qualify for the payment and are living in the postcode areas covered by the Met Office’s Katesbridge and Glenanne weather stations.
The postcode areas affected are BT24-26, BT30-35 and BT60-71.
Only those qualifying customers living in these postcode areas will receive the £25 payment.
The Department for Communities will make the payments automatically and there is no need to make a claim.
Customers can expect to receive their payment on Wednesday, March 7.
The Cold Weather Payment is available when the average temperature is recorded, or is forecast to be zero degrees centigrade or below, for a period of seven consecutive days.
The trigger was reached at Glenanne weather station based on a forecast of the temperature over the seven day period from February 27 to March 5.
Cold Weather Payments are in addition to the Winter Fuel Payments of £200 and over, made to people born on or before 5 August 1953.
So far this winter, the Department for Communities will have paid out £1.4 million in Cold Weather Payments.
To qualify for a Cold Weather payment a person must be receiving:
State Pension Credit; income related Employment and Support Allowance and are in the Work Related Activity or Support Group; Universal Credit that includes an amount in respect of a disabled child or qualifying young person for at least one day in a period of cold weather;
or Income Support, income based Jobseekers Allowance or income related Employment and Support Allowance for at least one day in a period of cold weather; and have a dependent child aged under five; have a relevant pensioner or disability premium; be entitled to Child Tax Credit for a child or qualifying young person who is disabled or severely disabled;
or Universal Credit for at least one day in a period of cold weather, and: where a cold weather payment is payable in relation to a recorded period of cold weather they must not be employed or self-employed on any day during that period and: have a child aged under five; be in receipt of or have an underlying entitlement to Limited Capability for Work or Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity; where a cold weather payment is payable in relation to a forecasted period of cold weather they must not be employed or self-employed on the day that the Meteorological Office supplies the Department with the forecast and:
have a child aged under five; be in receipt of or have an underlying entitlement to Limited Capability for Work or Limited Capability for Work and Work Related Activity.
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