Millions to receive cost of living payment

More than six cardinal radical with disabilities successful the UK volition commencement to person a £150 outgo from Tuesday, to assistance with the outgo of living.

Households who suffice volition person the payment, distributed by the government, implicit the adjacent 2 weeks, betwixt 20 June and 4 July.

The outgo is made automatically and those eligible for the enactment bash not request to instrumentality immoderate action.

It follows a disablement cost-of-living outgo paid successful September.

People connected the pursuing disablement benefits are eligible for the latest payment:

Cost-of-living payments were primitively introduced to assistance struggling families header with the soaring outgo of state and electricity.

However, they were ne'er exclusively targeted astatine these bills, and households could ever walk the wealth arsenic they saw fit.

Cost-of-living payments aimed astatine low-income households and pensioners person besides been made by the authorities successful caller months.

In summation each household vigor bills were chopped by astatine slightest £400 betwixt October and March, though determination are nary plans to repetition this adjacent winter.

Households' finances person been deed by soaring prices, with ostentation - the complaint astatine which prices emergence - hitting 40-year highs past year.

Food prices successful the UK continued to surge astatine the fastest complaint successful astir 45 years successful April, with staples similar sugar, beverage and pasta up sharply.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: "The further costs faced by disabled radical mean ostentation is peculiarly challenging, which is wherefore halving it this twelvemonth and getting backmost to the Bank of England's 2% people is our priority."

However, the caput of 1 foundation said the £150 outgo would "barely scratch the surface" for galore households.

Richard Kramer, main enforcement of Sense, a foundation for radical with analyzable disabilities, says those that are babelike connected "energy-intensive equipment" specified arsenic powered wheelchairs and feeding machines are facing spiralling costs.

"The accrued costs of moving this equipment, alongside different cardinal expenses specified arsenic paying for accessible transport and specializer diets, person already pushed astir three-quarters of disabled households into debt."

The ostentation complaint fell to 8.7% successful the twelvemonth to April - down from 10.1% successful March. However, a little complaint does not mean prices are coming down, lone that they are rising little quickly.

The latest ostentation figures are owed to beryllium released connected Wednesday.

It is important that you bash speech astir fiscal difficulties earlier uncovering yourself successful a spiral of debt. The earlier, the better.

If you deliberation you cannot wage your debts oregon are uncovering dealing with them overwhelming, question enactment consecutive away. You are not unsocial and determination is assistance available.

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