Three week warning for hard-up households to get cash worth £225 in free food and bill help

HARD-UP households person conscionable 3 weeks to spell to use for escaped currency worthy £225

Cash-strapped households tin get entree to money through the Household Support Fund (HSF).

The assistance was acceptable up successful 2021 and has since been extended by the UK authorities respective times. 

How overmuch you are eligible for is usually based connected what benefits you already person and your fiscal circumstances. 

The cookware of currency is handed retired by local councils and it varies from country to area.

Struggling households successful Doncaster tin get fiscal assistance worthy up to £225.

To beryllium eligible, you indispensable beryllium claiming lodging benefit, section assembly tax reduction,Universal Credit which includes the lodging element, oregon means-tested free schoolhouse meals.

If you use for the enactment you volition request to stock accusation specified arsenic name, address, day of commencement and National Insurance fig and slope relationship details.

The magnitude you get depends connected a fig of factors specified arsenic whether oregon not you unrecorded with children.

For example, those who unrecorded successful households with 1 oregon 2 babelike children volition get £150 payment.

While those with 3 oregon much babelike children volition get £225.

Pensioners who are receiving Pension Credit volition get £50.

And those of pension property who are not entitled to Pension Credit volition get £150.

The deadline to use for the enactment is Friday 28 February 2025 astatine 5pm.

That gives households conscionable 3 weeks to use for the support.

You tin use online astatine www.doncaster.gov.uk.

WHAT IF I DON'T LIVE IN DONCASTER?

What you tin get depends connected wherever you unrecorded and what enactment is available.

Each section assembly receives a information of the £421million fund, which is past distributed to residents based connected need.

Some councils may supply nonstop currency payments, portion others contented vouchers to assistance screen essentials like energy or food.

How the money is distributed volition vary, truthful it's important to check with your section authority.

For example, St Helens Borough Council successful Merseyside is offering enactment with essential bills.

Low-income families tin use for enactment with fuel, nutrient and different surviving expenses, including utility debts, arsenic good arsenic assistance with the outgo of purchasing furnishings oregon achromatic goods.

Direct payments of £200, oregon £300 for implicit 80s, volition besides beryllium made to pensioners who are not eligible for this year’s winter fuel payment, but person Housing Benefit oregon a Council Tax reduction.

Milton Keynes City Council is among those offering vigor vouchers to struggling households.

The assembly said it volition measure applicants connected a "case by case" basis, but radical who are conscionable missing retired connected the winter substance payment will person assistance worthy up to £300.

Coventry Council is besides offering vigor grants of up to £120 for azygous radical oregon childless couples, and £160 for families.

Meanwhile Medway Council is besides providing help. It volition springiness physics vigor cards to the worth of £100 to those successful demonstrable hardship, with little than £500 successful their slope accounts.