Cost of Living mini budget.

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"Six million people who receive disability allowance will get a payment of £150" - can someone explain if disability allowance is DLA, which has been replaced by PIP. If so does this extend to those who have been awarded PIP?

"Those on the lowest incomes - around eight million people supported through welfare system - will receive one-off cost of living payment of £650 in two lump sums" - does this mean people who are working and being topped up by universal credit, or will it extend to those who are unable to work as well?

The wording is ahem, leaves a lot to be explained... in my opinion.

Some more info is already on the .gov website. I've attached the section on the disability payment and this is the link to all of it

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

It could still be updated with more details though so I wouldn't take this as absolute fact just yet

As always with Rishi, he won't have done the detail yet, so when the actual detail is published it'll probably bear little resemblance to the headlines. He's got form - he promised "no one would be left behind" for Covid support/grants but 3 million people ended up excluded from his support schemes. You'll have to wait for the small print/detail to come out.

It does say ALL universal credit claimants

Thank you @LuluJo1020 - that is exactly the type of information I was looking for but unable to find (in sheer panic).

It seems like a good move they will use direct payments. Having been told that I would get the support for council tax last month, and then been told that I won't get it until October as I don't pay by DD I am happy to see direct payments and that things aren't coming via local councils.