Winter Heating Payment Scotland 2024. The scottish government will introduce the pension age winter heating payment in winter 2024 to help older people cover heating costs. Winter heating payment (whp) has replaced the uk government’s cold weather payment (cwp) in scotland, and provides a stable, reliable, annual payment to people in receipt of.
Unlike the dwp benefit it replaces, winter heating payment is not. You can get a winter heating payment if you live in scotland and you are on a qualifying benefit on any day in the ‘qualifying week’, which is the week starting on the first monday in november.
