When will you receive your living expenses payments?
In an autumn statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt revealed the associated fee of living that can be paid to thousands and thousands within the UK. People have been lining as much as receive as much as £1,350 directly into their bank accounts from spring 2023. Key dates for receiving these payments have now been announced.
The cost-of-living payments announced by Mr Hunt include a complete of £900 for those receiving advantages, £300 for pensioners and £150 for individuals with disabilities. Households are unlikely to qualify for all three payments. However, should you do, you’ll mechanically receive the complete £1,350.
If you might be applying for Pension Credit, Carer’s Allowance and are eligible for the Winter Fuel Surcharge, you’ll receive the complete amount directly into your checking account. You needn’t ask for help – the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will contact you.
Eligibility requirements, bank codes to search for in your bank statement, and exact payment dates can be announced closer to spring. All payments are tax free and don’t count towards your profit limit. This signifies that it can not affect the advantages you receive.
Spring
From spring this 12 months, the primary £300 of the £900 maintenance fee can be paid directly into applicants’ bank accounts. The payment can be spread over three installments. More than eight million people will receive it of their bank accounts.
To be eligible, households must claim no less than certainly one of the next advantages:
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Employment and Support Allowance is means-tested
- Income support
- Pension credit
- Tax Credits (Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit)
- Housing Benefit
- Council tax support
- Social Fund (Sure Start Maternity Allowance, Funeral Allowance, Winter Allowance)
- Universal credit
Summer
More than six million disabled people across the UK will receive a £150 profit through the warmer months. It isn’t yet clear what the precise criteria can be. However, previous payments of £150 for living expenses were available to those receiving a number of of the next advantages:
- Care allowance
- Permanent care allowance
- Adult Disability Allowance
- Disability Child Benefit
- Payment for private independence
- Adult Disability Benefit (in Scotland)
- Child Disability Payment (in Scotland)
- Armed Forces Independence Payment
- War Pension Mobility Allowance
Autumn
When the weather cools down again, the opposite third of £900 can be paid to eligible people. The second portion can also be value £300. Exact dates can be announced sooner or later.
Winter
Across the UK, thousands and thousands of pensioners will receive one other £300. It remains to be unclear whether households will qualify for this payment in the event that they normally receive the winter heating subsidy.
You were previously eligible for a pensioner’s last cost of living payment if:
- You were born on or before September 25, 1956
- You lived within the UK for no less than at some point per week from 19 to 25 September 2022 within the so-called ‘qualifying week’
Spring 2024
Next spring – even though it appears like a lifetime – the ultimate installment of £900 can be paid. That can be £299.
Further details on the eligibility criteria can be announced closer to the date, based on the DWP.
