Winter Fuel Payment by rate, England and Wales
Official statistics
People paid the Winter Fuel Payment in England and Wales in the latest winter, by the rate paid (£100 to £300), with the recipients and beneficiaries in all, from DWP's table by region.
Winter Fuel Payment recipients
10,872,496
2025/26 · 11,003,237 beneficiaries with eligible partners
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:17 UTCSource: Department for Work and Pensions. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
4 rows
| Category | Recipients |
|---|---|
| £100 | 3,983,110 |
| £150 | 969,102 |
| £200 | 4,097,343 |
| £300 | 1,822,934 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payment-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 15:01 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/winter-fuel-payment-statistics-for-winter-2025-to-2026SHA-256 59efa7e859781e7d732f5655ec515fde3d4f8cd5abc93d15085cff6f1ec93da0 · 12,899 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aa293b362ec7fe7bedf5321/Winter_Fuel_Payment_statistics_final.odsSHA-256 d9ac5f8fa1dd9f392546477076375c394ecf7ec668ce0942be467d82180e4b0a · 84,672 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:17 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:17 UTC; 4 of 4 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Work and Pensions; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T15:01:33Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 4 of 4 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's totals match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 4 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 4 of 4 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's totals match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | the winter 2025/26 ended 223 days before retrieval (limit 500) |
| Pass | The regions add up to England and Wales | 6 of 6 cases of the region table's figures for England and Wales are its nine regions', Wales's and DWP's unknown, within the 30 the hub allows, since DWP says its disclosure control means totals may not sum and states no bound within 30 (0 exactly) |
| Pass | The local authority table agrees | 4 of 4 figures match the England and Wales row of 2_Local_Authority for the winter 2025/26 |
| Pass | The parliamentary constituency table agrees | 4 of 4 figures match the England and Wales row of 3_Parliamentary_Constituency for the winter 2025/26; the proof counts these figures under the route that gives them all |
| Pass | The rates add up to the recipients | 12 of 12 cases of the region table's rows have rates that add up to their recipients, within the 15 the hub allows, since DWP says its disclosure control means totals may not sum and states no bound within 15 (1 exactly) |
| Pass | Beneficiaries include the recipients | in 12 of 12 rows beneficiaries are at least the recipients |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/winter-fuel-payment-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- People paid the Winter Fuel Payment for the winter, by the rate DWP paid them (£100, £150, £200 or £300, by age and household), as its table by region gives the rates. Beneficiaries are the recipients and their eligible partners, as DWP defines them.
- The release covers people living in England and Wales: the payment is now devolved to Scotland, which publishes its own figures, and Northern Ireland's are the Department for Communities'. The winter of 2024 to 2025 was means-tested, so earlier winters are not like this one. The figures count payments DWP made, before HMRC recovers any from pensioners with higher incomes, and leave out pensioners who opted out before payment.
- DWP applies statistical disclosure control to these tables and says their totals may not sum, so the rates and regions add up to the total within a few dozen, not exactly. The release gives no spending.