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Winter heating awards
Paisley Daily Express
|December 19, 2025
Scots are benefitting from the’strongest package of winter support”intheUK, social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somervillesaid, asfigures showed almost 840,000 payments havebeenmadeto help with heatingbills.
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Morethan568,000pensionagewinter heating payments havebeen paidto thoseaged 66 and overalready this winter.
The Scottish Governmentsaidthe benefit-which replaces the UKwinterfuel payment-sees older Scots receive between £101.70and£305.10depending onthei
Inaddition, more than 268,500 awards have beenmadesofarunder thewinter heating paymentandthe childwinter heating paymentschemes.
This story is from the December 19, 2025 edition of Paisley Daily Express.
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