The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988
These Regulations make provision for a payment to be made out of the social fund for each period of cold weather (7 days), if the claimant has been awarded income support for at least one day of that period; his applicable amount includes a disability or pensioner premium or a member of his family is under 2; and an average temperature of 0ï¿½ Celsius or less is recorded for that period at a climatological station designated for the area (regulation 2).