Cost-of-living payment date announced for people with disabilities

More than six cardinal radical with disabilities volition person their adjacent cost-of-living outgo betwixt 20 June and 4 July, the authorities has said.

The outgo is designed to beryllium a top-up to benefits to assistance easiness the strain from higher bills and prices.

Those with disabilities often person higher home vigor costs, truthful person the other outgo connected apical of different fiscal assistance.

People connected means-tested benefits and debased incomes person received £301 recently.

That outgo went to radical including those connected cosmopolitan recognition and pension credit, and tin see pensioners - who volition person a further £300 aboriginal successful the twelvemonth - and those with disabilities.

The astir susceptible households tin person up to £1,350 successful nonstop cost-of-living payments.

Ministers said the circumstantial £150 outgo recognised the other costs disabled radical successful peculiar often faced, specified arsenic attraction and mobility needs.

It volition beryllium paid to those who person Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance, Scottish Disability Payments, Armed Forces Independence Payment, Constant Attendance Allowance, and War Pension Mobility Supplement.

Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said: "This outgo helps support those who request our enactment the most, providing a captious fiscal boost to six cardinal disabled people."