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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.
The first payment of £301 will be made in spring, followed by the second payment of £300 in autumn and the final payment of £299 will be given in the spring of 2024 - totalling up to £900. Households will receive the first payment between 25 April and 17 May.
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. Those who are entitled to receive the payment are those on: • Universal credit. • Pension credit. • Income-based jobseeker's allowance.
The Government has said it has no plans to extend Cost of Living Payments beyond Spring 2024. 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.
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