Families have just weeks to claim supermarket cost of living vouchers and free cash worth up to £225

HARD-pressed families are being urged to cheque if they're eligible for captious enactment arsenic exertion deadlines loom.

Councils crossed England are distributing grants and vouchers worthy up to £225 to assistance screen indispensable nutrient and energy costs. 

This backing is portion of the government's £421million Household Support Fund (HSF) initiative, designed to supply targeted alleviation to those astir successful need. 

Each local authority gets a antithetic proportionality of currency depending connected the size of the catchment area, population, and fig of susceptible households.

This means the voucher oregon grants connected connection volition alteration by location, truthful you indispensable cheque to spot what you tin get and however your assembly volition wage you.

While the latest backing for the strategy is acceptable to extremity connected March 31, a fistful councils are already closing their applications wrong weeks.

For example, those surviving successful North Yorkshire person until February 13 to use for supermarket vouchers worthy £150.

Other deadlines volition intimately follow.

We've rounded up the 9 councils acceptable connected closing their applications for the strategy successful February.

If you unrecorded successful immoderate of these areas, it's captious to enactment rapidly to guarantee you don't miss retired connected this important support.

North Yorkshire Council - February 13

North Yorkshire Council is dishing retired e-vouchers worthy £150 to thousands of households that tin beryllium spent astatine 9 retailers.

Everyone who is eligible should person received a missive by January 21.

This missive includes accusation astir however to assertion and usage the e-voucher.

You volition beryllium eligible if you were getting the maximum discount to wage your council tax measure done the means-tested Council Tax Reduction Scheme arsenic of December 1, 2024.

You volition not beryllium eligible for the Household Support Fund if you lone get the 25% azygous idiosyncratic assembly taxation discount for households wherever lone 1 big is surviving successful the property.

People who are eligible volition get a azygous Household Support Fund e-voucher outgo to wage for nutrient and different essentials implicit the coming months.

Those eligible volition beryllium capable to take from 9 antithetic supermarkets: Aldi, ASDA, Farmfoods, Iceland, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.

Only ASDA, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose connection some in-store and online shopping.

You indispensable redeem the codification successful your missive to entree your vouchers by visiting northyorks.select-essentials.co.uk earlier February 13.

BCP Council - February 21

Citizens Advice Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) manages the Household Support Fund (HSF) connected the councils behalf.

Struggling families tin use for household grants to assistance with nutrient and substance bills.

To suffice for the Household Support Fund (HSF), you:

• Must unrecorded successful the BCP Council area
• Over the property of 16 and surviving independently of parents oregon carers
• Do not person the wealth to wage for essentials
• Can supply the required impervious of your identity, BCP Council residency and household fiscal information, including a summary for each idiosyncratic successful your household not successful full-time education.
• You whitethorn besides beryllium required to supply impervious of income, specified arsenic a caller slope statement

Applications adjacent for bully connected February 21.

In the meantime customers tin find retired much astir the assistance disposable by visiting citizensadvicebcp.org.uk/projects/household-support-fund.

Bedford Council - February 28

Bedford Council is presently taking applications for struggling pension-age customers, arsenic good arsenic households with families.

If you're implicit the state pension property and successful receipt of assembly taxation support, you tin use for a escaped £150 assistance paid straight into your slope account.

The assembly is besides accepting applications from households wherever the assembly taxation payer is of moving age, babelike children are included successful the household, and are successful receipt of a assembly taxation enactment claim.

These households tin besides use for a £150 currency grant, paid straight into their slope accounts.

The deadline to use for some forms of backing is February 28.

To find retired more, sojourn bedford.gov.uk/benefits-and-support/grants-and-funding/household-support-fund-2024-25.

Calderdale Council - February 28

Calderdale Council has revealed that applications for its HSF volition adjacent connected February 28.

If you person assembly taxation simplification based upon your income, you tin use for 1 of these payments:

• Households with children: £100
• Households with known disability: £100.
• Singles/couples with nary children oregon disability: £50

For households with children and a known disability, lone 1 outgo of £100 tin beryllium awarded.

To find retired more, sojourn new.calderdale.gov.uk/benefits/hsf.

Canterbury Council - February 28

Bedford Council is presently taking applications for struggling pension-age customers, arsenic good arsenic different households with and without children.

To use for a payment, you must:

• Live successful the Canterbury territory and beryllium 16 oregon implicit (including assemblage students)
• Have a full household income of £40,000 oregon little - this includes immoderate wealth from employment oregon benefits
• Have nary much than £500 successful savings and not person entree to immoderate different wealth to enactment your situation

Single parents oregon couples with nary children tin get a escaped currency assistance worthy £100.

Those with children tin get £150 and those implicit the authorities pension property tin get £200.

You indispensable use for the enactment by visiting canterbury.gov.uk/benefits-and-support/apply-household-support-fund-payment earlier February 28.

Doncaster Council - February 28

The City of Doncaster Council has decided to supply a one-off outgo to households who person immoderate of the following;

• Housing benefit
• Local assembly taxation reduction,
• Universal Credit which includes the lodging element
• Means-tested escaped schoolhouse meals

A one-off outgo volition beryllium made to those who marque an exertion and who conscionable the eligibility criteria above:

Working-age households tin get:

• £75 outgo to childless households
• £150 outgo to households with 1 oregon 2 babelike children
• £225 outgo to households with 3 oregon much babelike children.

And pensioner households tin use for the following:

• £50 outgo to households receiving, oregon are entitled to pension credit
• £150 outgo to households not receiving and not entitled to pension credit.

Applications volition adjacent Friday February 28, astatine 5pm.

You tin use for the assistance by visiting doncaster.gov.uk/services/council-tax-benefits/household-support-fund.

Leicester City Council - February 28

The HSF from Leicester City Council helps households with nutrient and energy bills.

The assembly volition look astatine the accusation successful your exertion to spot what enactment you request connected a case-by-case basis.

If your exertion is successful, your grant volition beryllium issued arsenic a Post Office Payout voucher.

This tin beryllium redeemed for currency astatine your nearest Post Office to assistance wage for your gas and energy bills.

To find retired much astir the scheme, sojourn leicester.gov.uk/your-community/benefits-and-other-support/household-support-fund/.

Portsmouth Council - February 28

If you person children aged 0-19 that bash not suffice for benefits-related free schoolhouse meals, oregon idiosyncratic successful your household is implicit 20 weeks large and you person a debased income, you whitethorn beryllium eligible to use for Portsmouth Council's Family Voucher Scheme.

The strategy is besides unfastened to:

• Children attending schoolhouse extracurricular of Portsmouth
• Home educated children
• Children successful aboriginal years settings
• Children successful afloat clip further education

Eligible families volition person 1 £50 supermarket voucher per child.

Households indispensable taxable their applications online by 12 noon connected February 28, by visiting portsmouth.gov.uk/services/benefits-and-support/help-and-support/money-advice/household-support-fund/.

Stockton-on-Tees Council - February 28

Households that are eligible for assembly taxation simplification should person received an £80 voucher from Stockton-on-Tees Council.

These vouchers are exchangeable for money, which tin beryllium utilized to assistance wage for vigor and nutrient costs.

However, to unafraid the cash, you indispensable speech the voucher astatine your section PayPoint outlet nary aboriginal than February 28.