As the cost of living crisis continues to affect households across the country, part of government efforts to tackle that has been the introduction of cost of living payments. The direct payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are designed to ease some of the pressures and cut some of the gap caused by high inflation levels over the past year.
As yet, Rishi Sunak has been able to get nowhere near his pledge of halving the rate of inflation and millions of households will welcome the support, reports LancsLive. It comes at a time when mortgages and rent are also rising dramatically, and pressure on household budgets remains extremely high.
Amid the ongoing pressures, Government cost of living payments are going some way to easing the pain for those on the lowest incomes, Birmingham Live reports. The DWP has now handed out around £450 in extra cash, with more to follow later in the financial year. Here we look at who gets the payments and all the key dates and rules.
