Winter Heating Payment will start to be paid this week

Winter Heating Payment is an automatic payment of £58.75 paid to eligible people by Social Security Scotland to help with the cost of heating your home.

How you get Winter Heating Payment

You will get Winter Heating Payment automatically if you get one of the benefits that make you eligible.

Getting Winter Heating Payment does not affect any other benefits you may get.

When you get it

You’ll automatically get the single payment between December and February. This does not depend on how cold it is.

You’ll get a letter or an email from Social Security Scotland telling you it’s coming. It appears as ‘WHP’ on your bank statement, WHP stands for Winter Heating Payment.

If you’re worried that you didn’t get a Winter Heating Payment that you should have got, send Social Security Scotland a request.