As the nights start to get colder, many of us are already starting to think about switching the heating on for the first time in months. The first few weeks of September have already seen temperatures start to drop with many of us feeling a slight chill in the air just months after Wales recorded its hottest temperatures in its history.
While parts of the UK are set to get some unseasonably warm weather over the weekend, the coming months will see the mercury starting to drop as the autumn nights set in. With energy bills set to be double what they were last winter, it has understandably left millions of households worried about how they will afford to pay their gas and electric in the coming months.
Thankfully, there is help in the cold weather payment, which offers you a payment if the average temperature in your area is recorded as, or forecast to be, zero degrees celsius or below over seven consecutive days. This is separate from the winter fuel payment, which is given to those over the state pension age to help them pay their bills.
