Do you qualify for the extra help?
When Jeremy Hunt delivered his Autumn Statement last month, a series of new cost of living payments where revealed with the aim of helping struggling households across the UK. The £26billion package included details of payments of £150 for people on disability benefits, £300 for pensioner households and £900 for those on means-tested benefits.
The new cost of living support package, which is expected to be paid to recipients in two instalments, was questioned by Labour’s shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, Jonathan Ashworth. He asked DWP if it will take steps to ensure that the £900 cost of living payment will not exclude benefit claimants whose Universal Credit payments have been reduced to a nil award as a result of a sanction.Thewritten responsethat followed on December 2 came from DWP minister Mims Davies.
She continued: "We recognise many of the most vulnerable are those entitled to other elements in Universal Credit, such as housing or child costs. If a sanction is applied, claimants continue to receive these other elements and would remain eligible for cost of living payments.” “Hardship payments are available as a safeguard to claimants who demonstrate that they cannot meet their immediate and most essential needs - including accommodation, heating, food and hygiene - as a result of their sanction.”
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