While millions of households across the UK are eligible for the next wave of cost of living payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), only a handful are eligible to receive the full amount. Some people could receive as much as £1,350 from the government, all of which is set to be paid in instalments between Spring 2023 and 2024.
As Lancs Live reports, the first payments are due to be made in the coming weeks and some 8 million households up and down the country will receive the means-tested benefit payments into their bank accounts automatically. The first payment comes this Spring and will amount to £301.
There will be an extra £150 summer payment to more than 6.5 million people on disability benefits, which will then be followed by a second £300 cost of living payment during Autumn 2023, as well as a £300 pensioner payment in the winter and a third cost of living payment of £299 next Spring.
