One-off cost of living payments worth up to £100 being handed out to hard-up pensioners – can you get one?

THOUSANDS of hard up pensioners could person enactment worthy up to £100 this wintertime to assistance with the outgo of living.

The strategy is being offered to residents successful the Isle of Wight who tin assertion enactment via the Household Support Fund.

This volition present tally until March 2025 aft being extended past month.

The strategy was primitively rolled retired successful 2021 to assistance susceptible radical header with the rising cost of living.

It has been extended galore times, with the authorities promising to pump a further £1billion into the money implicit 2025 and 2026.

Local councils pay retired the money, and however overmuch you get depends connected your fiscal circumstances and what benefits you receive.

The latest enactment bundle is offering a one-off nutrient voucher of £25 per household to those successful receipt of Local Council Tax Support.

This volition beryllium transferred to recipients automatically.

Pensioners who person assembly taxation enactment but who are not eligible for Pension Credit tin use for a one-off inferior voucher worthy £75.

The Household Support Fund is besides offering a top-up nutrient voucher strategy for those successful hopeless need.

Other forms of enactment see grants to assistance islanders successful emergencies and nutrient proviso backing to section communities.

The assembly volition besides enactment with Island providers to assistance financially hopeless residents with different forms of assistance during this period.

Councillor Debbie Andre, Cabinet subordinate for big societal attraction and Public Health, told Island echo: “It’s captious that we proceed to enactment those astir successful request crossed the Island, peculiarly arsenic we caput into the wintertime months.

“We inactive find ourselves successful the midst of a cost-of-living situation and times stay tough, but I anticipation this announcement volition spell immoderate mode towards reassuring families struggling to marque ends conscionable that enactment is determination to assistance them wage their bills, enactment nutrient connected the array oregon entree different enactment and proposal to assistance them.”

What if I don't unrecorded successful the Isle of Wight?

It is not lone households successful the Isle of White which are eligible for Household Support Fund.

Some examples of what different councils are doing include Rotherham Council, which is present offering struggling families £250 grants to combat the outgo of living.

Rotherham Council says that to suffice for the grant, residents indispensable person nary much than £150 remaining each period aft covering indispensable expenses specified arsenic food, rent oregon mortgage, and inferior bills.

You bash not request to beryllium connected benefits to use for the fund.

Newcastle Council has been awarded £2.9million to assistance struggling families this winter.

Some £950,000 of that money volition beryllium fixed to those who are pensionable property successful receipt of Council Tax Support oregon Housing Benefit but who don’t suffice for the Winter Fuel Allowance.

Everyone who is identified arsenic eligible for this enactment volition beryllium contacted straight successful December by the assembly with their payment.

Sandwell Council has besides been allocated much than £3.4million for the play up to March 2025 to assistance struggling families.

The assembly is utilizing the funds to springiness 4,000 pensioners connected debased incomes a £200 payment.

To beryllium eligible, you indispensable person council tax reduction, but not Pension Credit.

This outgo volition beryllium sent to eligible households successful a missive that tin beryllium cashed astatine a Post Office.

Meanwhile, The Sun antecedently revealed a afloat database of councils providing other enactment for pensioners this wintertime done the fund.

You tin cheque that out here.

How to cognize if you qualify?

Financial enactment disposable to struggling households varies from assembly to council, truthful it is worthy checking what schemes your section assembly offers to guarantee you get each the enactment you need. 

The benefits you already person volition not beryllium affected by applying for the HSF. 

And, you bash not needfully request to person benefits successful the archetypal place  to get vouchers oregon funds from the HSF.

To get the help, you'll request to cheque with your council - as section authorities are successful complaint of distributing the funding.