Each cold weather payment is for a seven-day period and is worth £25.
More than one payment will be made during the course of the winter if there are enough periods of cold weather.
The scheme runs between 1 November and 31 March each year.
By 3 January, there had been six trigger events in England., external
As of that date, an estimated 11,000 cold weather payments had been made, 4,000 of which were to people on pension credit.
