Cost of living payments

fiz7630

I keep seeing a lot about the gov "helping" those on universal credit. Is it going to be like the covid extra per week where those on old style benefits miss out again or will we actually be noticed as well ?

Spoonie_Turtle

It's going to be direct payment(s) for (edit: almost) all on means-tested benefits

£650 one-off Cost of Living Payment for those on means tested benefits:

• More than 8 million households on means tested benefits will receive a payment of £650 this year, made in two instalments. This includes all households receiving the following benefits:
• Universal Credit
• Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Income Support
• Working Tax Credit
• Child Tax Credit
• Pension Credit
• DWP will make the payment in two lump sums – the first from July, the second in the autumn. Payments from HMRC for those on tax credits only will follow shortly after each to avoid duplicate payments.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cost-of-living-support/cost-of-living-support-factsheet-26-may-2022

fiz7630

Thank you all I keep seeing is for universal credit so got me confused and knowing what they did in covid with extra 20 a week which old style benefit claimants didn't get it dd make me wonder

calcotti

fiz7630 said:

Thank you all I keep seeing is for universal credit 

Don't know where you are getting that from

poppy12345

fiz7630 said:

Thank you all I keep seeing is for universal credit

All of the information that you find on google regarding the payments all say legacy benefits as well as UC so i'm not sure how you come to that conclusion. There's also quite a few other threads here regarding these payments.

tifo

fiz7630 said:

Thank you all I keep seeing is for universal credit so got me confused and knowing what they did in covid with extra 20 a week which old style benefit claimants didn't get it dd make me wonder

Didn't claimants on tax credits get £1,000 as well?

"In March 2020, as part of a package of measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic the Government announced that they would increase the basic element of Working Tax Credit (WTC) for the 2020-21 tax year by an additional £20 a week. The basic element of WTC was originally intended to be £1,995 in 2020-21 but was increased to £3,040.

A similar £20 per week temporary increase was made to universal credit (UC). The increase to WTC (and UC) was scheduled to end on 5 April 2021".

poppy12345

tifo said:

fiz7630 said:

Thank you all I keep seeing is for universal credit so got me confused and knowing what they did in covid with extra 20 a week which old style benefit claimants didn't get it dd make me wonder

Didn't claimants on tax credits get £1,000 as well?

Indeed but this doesn't mean that all legacy benefit claimants were claiming WTC, i know i wasn't.

janeway33

Not all legacy benefits and not all means tested benefits. If you only get Housing Benefit then you don't qualify.

poppy12345

janeway33 said:

Not all legacy benefits and not all means tested benefits. If you only get Housing Benefit then you don't qualify.

No one said it was all legacy benefits.

Spoonie_Turtle

poppy12345 said:

janeway33 said:

Not all legacy benefits and not all means tested benefits. If you only get Housing Benefit then you don't qualify.

No one said it was all legacy benefits.

Actually I think that was me - will edit my post accordingly.  The official info doesn't though.