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Under DWP rules, households will not be eligible for the £301 cost of living payment if they have a "nil award" during the qualifying week

The next cost of living payment, worth £301 and the first instalment of the £900 cost of living payment, is hitting back accounts from today - but what other help is coming?

Martin Lewis explained that people claiming certain benefits, such as Universal Credit, from now would likely end up eligible to receive the second and third cost of living payments

The warning comes as many benefit claimants may decide to go away for an extended break over the Easter period, upcoming Bank Holidays, or summer holidays

Nearly six million people across the UK claim the means-tested benefit, according to the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

The Universal Credit increase comes into effect on the first Monday after the new tax year starts which for 2023 is Monday, April 10

If you were due to receive a benefit normally on Good Friday or Easter Monday, then it is likely you would have been paid today instead as this is the last working day before Easter

The DWP says the extension of the Support for Mortgage Interest loan will now a further 200,000 people with the rising cost of housing

It seems like pretty much everything is set to get a little bit more expensive in April which makes it very hard to long for the Spring, Mirror Money has compiled a full list of the confirmed rises, alongside the speculated

Around two million people still claim "legacy benefits" in the UK which include benefits such as working tax credit, income support, income-based job seekers allowance (JSA), and housing benefit

The first Cost of Living payment will land in those who are eligible's bank accounts from April 25 and the money should arrive by May 17

Seven in ten children from families on Universal Credit are not eligible for free school meals because they earn more than £7,400 a year after tax, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned

A third of employed adults are living payslip to payslip - and think they would struggle to afford food and utilities if they found themselves unemployed

Paris Cambridge, and her family from Seacroft, Leeds, have been hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis like countless Brits, and left desperately asking what she can do when her family are down to her 'last tenner'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in the Spring Budget that the sanctions would be applied “more rigorously” to those who fail to meet strict work-search requirements or choose not to take up a reasonable job offer

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed it is extending the “Help to Claim” scheme with an extra £22million investment to keep the scheme going

Hunt told parliament on Wednesday that he was delivering a budget for "growth" and a lot of measures aimed to get people back into work

The Help to Save scheme was set to end in September this year but will now be open until April 2025

The Chancellor has pre-announced a series of key measures which aim to boost the UK workforce, which he argues will encourage growth that could allow for tax cuts later on

Lost National Insurance credits can mean people could get less state pension when they retire or they could waste money buying top-ups they don't need

If you’re due a benefit payment on one of the two Easter bank holiday days, you may find you get paid on a different date - here is everything you need to know

Joint research released today by the Trussell Trust and Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that the standard allowance is £35 too low for a single person and £66 for a couple

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said around 825,000 people could miss out on the payments because they earn "slightly" more than what you can to get Universal Credit

The £900 Cost of Living payment will be paid to around eight million households who are claiming benefits with the first instalment wroth £301 will be paid at some point this Spring

Three estimates that around 4.2million people across the UK could be eligible to sign up for its new social tariff which costs only £12 a month and offers unlimited data, calls and texts, and 5G