Around 53% of London's 3.6 million households will be eligible for a £100 payment this winter to help with rising energy bills, with the scheme reaching more than 1.9 million households in the capital.
The payment, which will be paid directly into homeowners' bank accounts, will cost £2.6 billion and was one of many pledges made by Chancellor John Healey during Wednesday's Budget.
Who qualifies for the payment
Twenty million households in council tax bands A-D across the country will receive the payment. The government estimates that support will reach 80% of households, including 83% of fuel-stressed households and 88% of those in the bottom three income deciles.
In London, 181,400 (5%) of households are in Band A, with 290,240 (8%) in Band B, 653,040 (18%) in Band C, and 798,160 (22%) in Band D, according to data from taxbandcheck.co.uk.
How to check your eligibility
The announcement has prompted a surge in people checking their tax band to see if they qualify, with the UK Government website's council tax page going down on Wednesday afternoon.
Council tax bands in England are calculated based on a property's worth on April 1, 1991, with the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) assigning each residential property to one of eight main bands (A through H) based on these values.
Recipients can spend the cash landing in their bank account from January as they wish. To see if you qualify for the scheme, you can use the government's Council Band check tool.
