A staggering half a million Universal Credit claimants have been denied the cost of living payment, worth £326.
Ministers have revealed that 551,000 Universal Credit claimants have missed out on the cost of living payment, due to the fact that they earned too much from working. Coventry Live reports that this was down to a technicality in the payment criteria.
The Labour Party has stated that some claimants had two paydays fall in the same 30-day qualifying period, as they were all paid monthly. This technicality mean that their income was temporarily too high to claim the cost of living payment - despite the fact that it is usually much lower.
