The Latest Breaking News from Universal Credit

Check if you are due £326 cost of living payment landing in 8m bank accounts this month

Eligible claimants will receive the extra support between now and the end of July.

Daily Record · Jul 14, 2022

When will my cost of living payment arrive? All dates including £326 DWP cash from today

The UK cost of living help package begins today, with benefit claimants getting £650 in total, pensioners getting an extra winter fuel payment, and £400 of support for all householders rich or poor. Here's your month-by-month guide

Daily Mirror · Jul 14, 2022

When is the second half of the £650 cost of living payment being sent and how much is it?

Households who claim means-tested benefits, including Universal Credit, will start to receive the first half of the £650 cost of living payment from next week - but when is the second and final half being sent?

Daily Mirror · Jul 14, 2022

DWP: When the second cost of living payment will be paid into bank accounts

The first £326 payments will begin landing in accounts this week, but the second instalment of £324 will be paid in a few months

Chronicle Live · Jul 13, 2022

DWP Cost of Living Payment: People not entitled to £650 payment

There are some benefits which are not eligible

Nottingham Post · Jul 13, 2022

List of people who won't get £650 payment to help with cost of living

Why Government isn't paying the money to everyone who claims benefits

Wales Online · Jul 13, 2022

32 ways legacy benefit claimants could trigger a 'natural migration' move to Universal Credit

DWP will transfer 2.6 million people to Universal Credit through managed migration by the end of 2024.

Daily Record · Jul 13, 2022

Cost of living crisis forces former NHS worker to live on cartons of vegetable juice

Errol Livingstone, 57, is a former NHS call handler and admits he has, at times, lived on cartons of pure vegetable juice, fresh orange juice and fruit as he struggles to survive

Daily Mirror · Jul 13, 2022

Man who lives on vegetable juice stopped using oven after Universal Credit was cut

Errol Livingstone said he now can’t afford to travel and insists having a Greggs is now a ‘luxury’ after the DWP cut his benefits.

Daily Record · Jul 13, 2022

Universal Credit claimants given social media warning as DWP cracks down on benefit fraud

The monitoring of bank account activity and cracking down on fraud guides being shared online form part of ministers' plans to save £4billion in benefit scams

Daily Mirror · Jul 13, 2022