T he Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has disclosed the eligibility criteria for the upcoming round of summer cost of living payments. Thanks to a six-month extension of the Household...
The cost of living payment instalment being sent out in February 2024 is for £299. It follows a £301 initial payment in April and May last year and a second instalment, of £300, paid out in...
Eight million eligible households will receive three cost of living support payments of £301, £300 and £299. The first payment arrived in bank accounts in spring 2023, and households started receiving the second from 31 October 2023. The final £299 payment will be paid from 16 February 2024.
The final £299 cost of living payment has now been made to anyone entitled to the old government grant. Here we explain what was available, and what other help from the DWP is still there to claim in September.
Cost of Living Payment for 2023 / 2024. Eligibility criteria . For Universal Credit claimants, eligibility for the Cost of Living Payment is based on their circumstances in the relevant assessment period which ends on or within the eligibility period.
Over 8 million families in the UK will continue to receive direct financial support from Government, with the first of five Cost of Living Payments – worth £301 – hitting bank accounts this...
Guidance on getting extra payments to help with the cost of living from 2022 to 2024 if you were entitled to certain benefits or tax credits.
Cost of Living Payments are additional cash payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (and HM Revenue and Customs and the Ministry of Defence) to recipients of certain benefits and tax credits throughout the UK. The payments made in 2022 and being repeated in 2023/24 were:
Millions of households to receive £300 from DWP between 31 October and 19 November 2023. This is the second of 3 payments totalling up to £900 supporting eligible people on means-tested benefits...
A report from Policy in Practice this year shows that nearly £23bn in benefits goes unclaimed a year – they offer a helpful calculator to work out what you might be entitled to.