The £20 extra a week being given to everyone on Universal Credit during the pandemic won't be extended beyond September according to the Work and Pensions Secretary.
Therese Coffey says the Government doesn't believe there will be a need for the extra money this winter.
That is despite Boris Johnson this week saying the Government expects a new wave of disease when the weather turns colder at the end of the year.
He gave the winter surge of illness as the reason an inquiry in the handling of Covid in the UK can't start until the spring.
And this week SAGE said the next wave of Covid in the summer could be the worst yet thanks to lockdown lifting and the Indian variant.
Rishi Sunak announced in the Budget that the £20 Universal Credit uplift would be extended for six months to September.
Now Ms Coffey has suggested that it will not be extended beyond that.
She told the Evening Standard: "We’re not anticipating, or I’m not anticipating, any further need to do stuff entirely out of the ordinary.
"We need to try and get people into work and fill the vacancies that we do have in this country."
Will Quince, who is responsible for looking after Universal Credit at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), said: "It's right that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will continue to look at the economic, societal and health picture going forward, and be able to take a view, in the end of the summer or perhaps as we approach the last quarter of this year, on how best we continue to support some of the lowest paid, most vulnerable, poorest and of course, most disadvantaged in our country.
"To be frank, we don't quite know where we are going to be in the third and fourth quarter."
