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Eligible pensioners are being urged to make an important check (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n
State pensioners are being urged to check their bank statements for a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) code before Tuesday, March 31, for a potential \u00a3300 boost. Around nine million pensioners in England and Wales are eligible for a Winter Fuel Payment<\/a> in the 2025\/26 tax year, which is worth between \u00a3100 and \u00a3300.<\/p>\n The vast majority of pensioners who qualify for the energy bill<\/a> help should have already received the payment automatically at the end of last year, with the money appearing in bank accounts by mid-December. But eligible pensioners who did not receive a payment from the DWP<\/a> by January 28, 2026, need to contact the Winter Fuel Payment<\/a> Centre before the end of this month.<\/p>\n The deadline to make a claim for winter<\/a> 2025 to 2026 is on Tuesday, March 31, so pensioners have just days left to claim their payment.<\/p>\n Read More: Older state pensioners given \u00a38 weekly extra after April triple lock change <\/a><\/p>\n Read More: DWP sending \u00a3921 to state pensioners before Easter based on two-digit code <\/a><\/p>\n You can check if you\u2019ve received a Winter Fuel Payment by looking for a DWP code on your bank statement. The payment reference should begin with your National Insurance number, followed by the code \u2018DWP WFP\u2019.<\/p>\n In a reminder to pensioners to check their bank statements, Gordon Wallis from independent fuel distributor Your NRG<\/a> said: \u201cEvery pound matters, particularly during the winter months when heating costs can rise sharply<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re encouraging pensioners and their families to double-check that payments have been received and that no support is being left unclaimed.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important for households to understand how the scheme works, particularly if their circumstances have changed. A quick check now could prevent unnecessary financial pressure later.\u201d<\/p>\n The Winter Fuel Payment amount you get depends on when you were born and your circumstances during the qualifying week between September 15 and 21, 2025.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll get either \u00a3200 if you were born between September 22, 1945 and September 21, 1959, or \u00a3300 if you were born before September 22, 1945.<\/p>\n For pensioners with a taxable income above \u00a335,000, the DWP has confirmed that the payment will be reclaimed through their tax code from April 2026 or their tax return for the 2025\/26 financial year.<\/p>\n Most pensioners should have received the Winter Fuel Payment automatically if they\u2019re eligible and if you get any of the following benefits you don\u2019t need to claim it:<\/p>\n State Pension<\/a>Pension CreditUniversal CreditAttendance Allowance<\/a>Personal Independence Payment (PIP)Carer\u2019s AllowanceDisability Living Allowance (DLA)Income Supportincome-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)income-based Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance (JSA)awards from the War Pensions SchemeIndustrial Injuries Disablement BenefitIncapacity BenefitIndustrial Death Benefit<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t get any of these then you\u2019ll need to submit a claim by Tuesday, March 31, for the payment if either of the following apply:<\/p>\n you\u2019ve not got the Winter Fuel Payment beforeyou\u2019ve deferred your State Pension since your last Winter Fuel Payment<\/p>\n The DWP said: \u201cIf any pensioner has questions on whether they are eligible or has not received a payment by 28 January 2026, they are encouraged to contact the Winter Fuel Payment Centre on 0800 731 0160.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eligible pensioners are being urged to make an important check (Image: Getty) State pensioners are being urged to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,2215,175642,5363,175643,4176,4174,4175,2221,2899,56,54,55,43393,48759],"class_list":{"0":"post-499827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dwp","10":"tag-dwp-code","11":"tag-energy-bills","12":"tag-energy-bills-assistance","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance","16":"tag-state-pension","17":"tag-state-pensioners","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom","21":"tag-winter-fuel-payment","22":"tag-winter-fuel-payments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}