Thousands of people to get £130 straight into bank accounts before Christmas

Halton Borough Council is awarding the currency to pensioners who are successful receipt of assembly taxation simplification oregon lodging benefit, arsenic portion of the Household Support Fund

Thousands of debased income pensioner households volition get a escaped £130 outgo earlier Christmas.

Halton Borough Council is awarding the currency to pensioners who are successful receipt of assembly taxation simplification oregon lodging benefit, arsenic portion of the Household Support Fund. The Household Support Fund is simply a strategy that allows section councils to grant circumstantial assistance to residents who are down connected bills, oregon connected debased incomes.

It is down to each section authorization to determine what enactment to give, and who gets it, which means galore households look a postcode lottery erstwhile it comes to what assistance is available. The assistance usually comes successful the signifier of one-off currency payments that don't request to beryllium paid back, oregon vouchers for nutrient oregon energy.

If you're eligible, Halton Borough Council volition nonstop the wealth to your slope relationship automatically - which means you don't request to use - oregon if they don't person your slope details, you'll beryllium sent a voucher. The currency should beryllium sent to you earlier Christmas.

The assembly is besides giving retired escaped schoolhouse repast vouchers to astir 7,500 eligible pupils. These are worthy £12 per week and volition beryllium provided during the 2 weeks of the Christmas holidays and outpouring fractional term. 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, costing a full of £421million.

If you're not a Halton resident, it is worthy checking the website of your section assembly to spot what assistance it could perchance connection you. For example, Peterborough City Council is giving pensioners a £100 voucher if you're connected a debased income, but not receiving Pension Credit. You indispensable besides person little than £10,000 successful savings and unrecorded wrong the Peterborough City Council area.

Nottingham City Council is handing retired supermarket and vigor vouchers to eligible households. Each household tin get 2 vigor enactment vouchers worthy £49 each and 1 £75 supermarket voucher each month. Free schoolhouse repast vouchers worthy £15 a week volition besides beryllium sent retired implicit the Christmas and February schoolhouse holidays.

People surviving successful Rotherham are capable to assertion the £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.