Pension Age Winter Heating Payment (PAWHP): draft regulations 2024

Part 8 - Payments

Form of Pension Age Winter Heating Payment

18. Pension Age Winter Heating Payment is to be given in the form of money in a single payment in respect of the winter following the qualifying week.

Making payments

19.—(1) Where Pension Age Winter Heating Payment is payable in respect of an individual, the Scottish Ministers may, where they consider appropriate, make the payment to another person to be used for the benefit of the individual.

(2) Where the Scottish Ministers consider, for any reason, that it is no longer appropriate for a particular person who falls within paragraph (1) to continue to receive the payment, they may cease making payment to that person and pay it instead to the individual who is entitled to the payment or another person.

Name

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

Date