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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
David Bentley & Sophie McCoid

DWP pauses £301 cost of living payments in unexpected update

The Department for Work and Pensions has temporarily suspended cost of living payments.

The DWP said that it had paid out the £301 to 4.8m households in total this month. The DWP paid out 1.6 million sums of £301 each day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week. Eight million low-income families are due the money overall.

But on Thursday evening the department told claimants that there would be no payments made on Friday - reports Birmingham Live.

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