Employment boost of 200,000 as cost of living support extended

Cost-of-Living Payments

The DWP has created a webpage for individuals to report a missed payment. The government’s guidance on the page states: “Most individuals should have received their £301, £300, and £299 Cost of Living Payments, as well as the £150 Disability Cost of Living Payment for the years 2023 and 2024. If you were expecting one of these Cost-of-Living Payments but have not received it, you can report it as missing. You will need your National Insurance number for this. If your National Insurance number is lost, instructions are available on how to retrieve it. Before reporting a missing payment, please verify your bank, building society, or credit union account, or check your Payment Exception Service voucher receipt. Note that the payment will be processed separately from your regular benefits.”

DWP issues new guidance on PIP eligibility

New guidelines from the DWP on PIP eligibility have been released. Personal Independence Payment, or PIP, provides assistance to those who deal with a chronic disease or other disability.

Payments have increased 10.1 percent from this week along with many other benefits, including Universal Credit.

Guidance

PIP handbook

Updated 7 February 2024

• Contents
• Conditions of entitlement
• Assessment criteria
• Access to other benefits and services
• PIP and existing DLA claimants
• How to make a claim
• Completing the ‘How your disability affects you’ form
• Assessment process and assessment providers
• Decision and payment
• Changes in circumstances
• If a claimant might have 12 months or less to live
• Supporting young people to claim
• Disputes

Are you owed up to £12,000 in backdated PIP payments from the DWP?

Check now!

Employment boost of 200,000 as cost-of-living support extended.

Employment boost of 200,000 as cost-of-living support extended.

Plans to boost economic activity while supporting vulnerable people with the cost of living will be driven through by Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, as the Government unveiled its Budget for Long Term Growth. From: Department for Work and Pensions Published on 7 March 2024 (gov.uk).