winter fuel payment

The payment is £200 for a married couple, and we have already received ours. They go out in alphabetical order of your surname from mid-November.

At last - a question I can answer :-)

It's 200 per pensioner household, where a 'pensioner' is anyone over 60 by a specific date. Your wife will get her 100 in due course. They are very efficient, in my experience.

AIUI, it's 100 each - so both need to qualify to get 200 altogether. There are exceptions and this link may help....

Yes it's £100 each. Mine is paid under the auspices of The Veterans Agency (what a cringe making title!) in that I'm the recipient of an Army war disablement pension, whilst my wife's is paid by The Pensions Service.

My £100 was paid into our bank account some 2½ weeks before my wife's.

way you get your £200 per household.

So it does - apologies and thanks for pointing that out. Weird, cos I know of cases which have only rec'd one lot of 100, and I assumed that was because a second resident didn't qualify.