Nearly 350,000 people claiming disability benefits in the North East are due a £150 boost to help ease the cost of living crisis - and our map shows how many will benefit where you live.
Anyone receiving one of nine disability benefits will receive the £150 payment within two weeks, the DWP confirmed. This is a separate payment to the £301 cost of living sum which was paid to eight million households earlier this year.
The extra payment of £150 will go to more than 6m individuals who are in receipt of disability benefits, over a two-week period starting from June 20. In the North East, a total of £52.3m is being shared out among 348,900 people.
