A new round of cost of living payments for some UK residents are tipped to be announced on Thursday, November 17. Reports suggest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been drawing up plans to repeat the £650, £150 and £300 targeted payments the hard-up groups are receiving this year - but not the £400 that is going to all households.
A full package of energy bills support will be announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in Thursday's Autumn Statement. Multiple government sources did not deny reports in The Times that it would repeat the three cost-of-living payments. That would hand another £650 to 8.2million households on means-tested benefits including Universal Credit, Tax Credits and Pension Credit.
Another £150 would go to about 6.3million people on disability benefits including Personal Independence Payment. And it would give another £300 to more than 8million pensioner households who already receive a Winter Fuel Payment, The Mirror reports.
