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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Zoe Tidman

All the cost of living help available and how to get the payment

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The rising cost of living is continuing to stretch budgets across the UK this winter, with warnings of more to come.

Energy bills are soaring, rents are increasing and inflation has hit record highs for several months in a row, all of which means living standards are forecast to tumble at their fastest pace since the 1950s as wages fail to keep up with rocketing prices.

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