The Spring bank holiday weekend is here and will see most of the country bask in some much-needed sunshine over the long weekend. While the spring break is a welcome breather from the five-day weekly norm, it is also the perfect time to check you are not missing out on benefits or payments.
If you are in work, but on a low income, facing redundancy, living with a long-term health condition or disability, raising a family or recently bereaved, you could be due extra financial support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The bank holiday means you can easily set some time aside to use one of the online benefit calculators listed at the end of this article to check if you should make a claim for a benefit or payment. A new report by the think-tank Policy in Practice recently estimated that more than £19 billion of UK Government benefits is going unclaimed each year.
