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It is worth contacting your energy provider to find out if you are eligible. British Gas also offer a grant of up to £2,000 to customers of any energy provider .
The payment will be the first of three totalling up to £900 for means-tested benefits claimants, as part of the Government’s cost-of-living support.
It is worth contacting your energy provider to find out if you are eligible. British Gas also offer a grant of up to £2,000 to customers of any energy provider .
The amount paid is greater for those aged 80 years and older and is set so that a person living alone (or with people ineligible for the payment) is paid twice as much as a person in a household where more than one person receives the payment. [13] In the winter 2024–2025 the amount paid was £200 to £300 depending on circumstances. [12]
A report of February 2012 found that billions of pounds payable had not been claimed. In 2009–2010 the DWP stated £1.95 billion job-seekers allowance, £2 billion income support and employment and support allowance, £2.4 billion in council tax, £2.8 billion in pension credit and £3.1 billion for housing benefit; in total £12.25 billion ...
The State of the Nation report published in 2010 by the Government of David Cameron estimated the total benefit fraud in the United Kingdom in 2009/10 to be approximately £1 billion. [6] Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions show that benefit fraud is thought to have cost taxpayers £1.2 billion during 2012–13, up 9 per cent on ...
The DWP board wants to know how much public money has been spent on legal costs stemming from the 2013 billing debacle at the utility.
Payments are reduced if the claimant has savings between £6,000 and £16,000. [ 36 ] Both forms of benefit faced 100% marginal deductions if the individual earned more than a small amount – the 'disregard' – which was £5 per week for single people, £10 per week for couples and £20 per week for certain other groups such as some lone ...