The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) started dropping one-off payments for £326 into bank accounts of benefit claimants across the country on July 14. The cash is the first instalment of the means-tested £650 cost of living payment which is being made to millions of households this year.
However, the DWP confirmed on Wednesday that while seven million eligible claimants are “on track” to receive the £326 payment by the end of July, some people with “more complex circumstances” will have to wait a bit longer for the money, which is intended to help mitigate the rising cost of living.
DWP Minister, David Rutley MP, said the number of cases who will have to wait is less than one per cent, but reassured that “all eligible households will automatically receive the first instalment”.
