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Who gets the £450 cost of living payments and what are the key dates?
09.07.2023 - 10:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The cost of living crisis continues to badly affect Greater Manchester and the rest of the country, with food inflation in particular causing misery.
With mortgages and rent also rising dramatically, pressure on household budgets remains extremely high. Part of government efforts to tackle that has been the introduction of cost of living payments.
The direct payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are designed to east some of the pressures and cut some of the gap caused by high inflation levels over the past year. As yet, Rishi Sunak has been able to get nowhere near his pledge of halving the rate of inflation, and millions of households will welcome the support.
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Amid the ongoing pressures, Government cost of living payments are going some way to easing the pain for those on the lowest incomes, Birmingham Live reports. The DWP has now handed out around £450 in extra cash, with more to follow later in the financial year. Here we look at who gets the payments and all the key dates and rules.
Who gets the £450 cost of living payments?
This is a cumulative total of a £301 sum for households on means-tested benefits - the first cost of living payment to be handed out in the current financial year - and a subsequent £150 for people on disability benefits. Although aimed at different social groups, some people do qualify for both amounts because it is possible to claim disability benefits on top of means-tested benefits without one affecting the other.
The £301 payment has been given to people receiving any of the following means-tested benefits - they are described as means-tested because the amount given to a
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