DWP half term cost of living vouchers being issued to families - see if you qualify

Central Bedfordshire Council is offering the enactment arsenic portion of the Household Support Fund scheme, which is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions

Thousands of families who assertion escaped schoolhouse meals volition get supermarket vouchers from their section assembly this February fractional term.

Central Bedfordshire Council is offering the enactment arsenic portion of the Household Support Fund scheme, which is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). The Household Support Fund is simply a strategy that allows section councils to grant circumstantial assistance to residents who are connected debased incomes, oregon down connected bills.

Each assembly decides what enactment to give, and who is eligible for it. For example, you whitethorn beryllium awarded currency payments that don't request to beryllium paid back, oregon vouchers for nutrient oregon energy. Central Bedfordshire Council is awarding supermarket vouchers worthy £17.50 this February fractional word to children who be a Central Bedfordshire School and person escaped schoolhouse meals.

You should person a substance oregon email that volition springiness you instructions connected however to take a supermarket for the voucher. You'll besides person a supermarket voucher if you person escaped childcare for a kid aged 2 and you assertion benefits, oregon if you're a young big aged betwixt 18 and 25 years aged who has antecedently spent clip successful care.

Supermarket vouchers were antecedently awarded by Central Bedfordshire Council for the October and Christmas fractional terms. The Household Support Fund was owed to extremity connected September 30, 2024 but it has been extended for an further six months, until March 31, 2025, aft different £421million was allocated to the scheme.

If you're not a Bedfordshire resident, it is worthy checking the website of your section assembly to spot what assistance it could perchance connection you. For example, radical surviving successful Solihull tin get escaped assistance worthy £500 to wage disconnected h2o and vigor debts.

You request to person a combined yearly household income of nether £31,000, person nary household savings, but for if you're a pensioner, past you tin person up to £5,000 successful savings. You indispensable person idiosyncratic surviving successful the household with a vulnerability and beryllium successful receipt of a qualifying benefit.

Rotherham residents tin get £250 enactment this winter. To qualify, you indispensable person nary much than £150 remaining each period aft covering indispensable expenses similar food, rent oregon mortgage, and inferior bills. The backing is not means-tested but lone 1 exertion tin beryllium made per household.

Blackpool Council volition beryllium giving payments of up to £300 to households who are struggling to screen vigor oregon h2o costs. The wealth volition beryllium paid straight to your supplier and volition look arsenic a recognition connected your measure oregon prepay meter. Check your section assembly to spot what enactment you whitethorn beryllium entitled to.