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Pensioners urged to check if they qualify for benefits to help with food and bills

The Minister of State for Work and Welfare, Victoria Prentis, has urged older people to check if they qualify for benefits to help with food and energy bills amid the cost of living crisis

Glasgow Live

People of State Pension age urged to check benefits eligibility to help pay energy and food bills

A successful claim for Pension Credit could also qualify for the second cost of living payment of £324.

Daily Record

Cost of living payment worth £326 reported 'missing' by 161,000 people last month

DWP has responded to over 90 per cent of payment queries reported using the online form, and found that over 160,000 people claimed that they hadn't received any payment.

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ITV Good Morning Britain: Martin Lewis to take 'long break' as he's replaced by Richard Madeley

The financial guru is taking time off to focus on The Martin Lewis Money Show Live

Nottingham Post

£326 cost of living payments reported ‘missing’ by 161,000 people in August and September

DWP has responded to over 90% of payment queries reported using the online form.

Daily Record

DWP warning as update provided on whether benefits will rise in line with inflation

Liz Truss faces mounting pressure to raise benefits in line with inflation

Liverpool Echo

Decision on whether to raise benefits in line with inflation to be announced next month

It comes just days after members of the Cabinet publicly urged Liz Truss to raise benefits in line with inflation

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Kwasi Kwarteng bows to pressure and brings forward debt-cutting plan to Oct 31

Kwasi Kwarteng has bowed to pressure and brought forward the publication of a report from the Government’s independent fiscal watchdog.

Evening Standard

Conor Burns suggests Liz Truss should not have sacked him before groping claim investigated – as it happened

Former trade minister criticises decision to ask him to stand down as PM hopes for reset following weeks of turmoil

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss to hold meetings with Tory MPs in bid to woo critics

With Parliament returning this week, the Prime Minister will meet groups of colleagues as she faces a growing rebellion over benefits.

The Independent UK

Truss must raise benefits in line with inflation, Javid says

Former Tory chancellor also calls on Kwasi Kwarteng to speed up release of OBR forecasts

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss to abandon benefit cuts in bid to avoid Tory mutiny, reports say

PRIME Minister Liz Truss is set to abandon plans to impose real-terms benefits cuts in an attempt to stave off a Tory mutiny brewing after just…

The National (Scotland)

Full list of DWP financial support available to people of State Pension age this autumn

All the financial support to help with energy bills and rising cost of living during colder months.

Daily Record

Liz Truss holds out olive branch to Rishi Sunak backers as she recasts junior team

Several MPs who supported the former chancellor in the Tory leadership contest have been handed ministerial roles

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Truss holds out olive branch to Sunak backers as she recasts junior team

Several MPs who supported the former chancellor in the Tory leadership contest have been handed ministerial roles.

Daily Record

Nearly half of Tory supporters want energy companies to be nationalised in face of cost of living crisis

Moves to bring the energy companies back into public ownership are popular even with supporters of the Tory government who sold off the utilities to the private sector in the 1980s.

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss ‘not ruling out’ direct financial support for cost of living – as it happened

Frontrunner to be new PM next week is ‘clear further support may be required’, says campaign team

Manchester Evening News

Help IS on the way for households preparing for huge winter energy bills, Tory minister insists - as warning is issued on 'lethal cocktail' of recession and high inflation

'The government is making plans to help people as they will need it with energy bills this winter'

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The Independent UK

MPs vow to keep housing refugees under Homes For Ukraine scheme

Victoria Prentis and Duncan Baker say they will continue to host refugees from Ukraine beyond the half-year minimum required.

Insider UK

UK Government urged to prioritise fresh Scottish salmon exports amid border delays

Trade body chief holds talks with UK fisheries minister in Shetland

Daily Record

One per cent rise in inflation adds £33 to Scots families' annual food bill

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), this is the highest rise since March 2009.

Daily Mirror

Farming Minister gave up cows in case they infected neighbour's cattle with TB

Victoria Prentis revealed the sacrifice as she responded to fresh calls for the badger cull to be stopped

The Guardian - UK

Fears environment bills could be sidelined amid Tory leadership race

Campaigners warn crucial legislation must not be abandoned while the UK government is distracted

Reuters

Allegations Russia is stealing Ukrainian grain must be investigated - UK

Allegations that Russia is stealing grain from a wide variety of areas in Ukraine are very serious and must be investigated immediately, Victoria Prentis, Britain's farming minister said on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

UK pork prices likely to rise due to Russia-Ukraine conflict, says minister

Victoria Prentis says Britons need to be more willing to buy premium food and suggests boycott of Russian white fish

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