The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 1998

Prescribed amount

3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), winter fuel payments shall be of the following amounts—

(a) in the case of a person to whom regulation 2(2) applies, £50;

(b) in the case of a person to whom regulation 2(5) applies—

(i) who is living in a household where there is no other person in that household who is entitled to a payment under this regulation, £20;

(ii) who is of no fixed abode, £20; or

(iii) in every other case, £10.

(2) Where a person falls within both of the categories of persons to which regulation 2(2) or (5) refers, payment shall be made under paragraph (1)(a) only.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where a person falls within more than one class of person to which regulation 2(6) refers only one payment shall be made under paragraph (1)(b).

(4) Where a person who has received a payment under paragraph (1)(b) is subsequently awarded income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance in respect of the qualifying week, he shall be paid the difference between the amount he and his partner, if any, have already received and the amount to which paragraph (1)(a) refers.