Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis has suggested Rishi Sunak is“giving with one hand and taking away with the other” after the chancellor announced those receiving disability benefits would be handed £150 in extra support – just as hundreds of thousands of disabled people are being cut off from the warm home discount scheme.
Almost 300,000 disabled people are losing government help to lower their fuel costs, with tighter eligibility rules removing the flagship discount from the claimants of a clutch of disability benefits, because their incomes are judged to be too high.
