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Around eight million households who claim means-tested benefits are due to get the £650 payment from the Government, which is being handed out to help cover the cost of rising bills

A further 607,000 individuals will receive the £150 one-off disability payment in September.

Latest figures show 72% of PIP tribunals overturned DWP award decisions

Claimants will not be asked to perform any physical ‘tests’ during the assessment process for Adult Disability Payment.

More than eight million households in the UK will get a cash to ease cost of living pressures, including almost 400,000 in the North East

Crimestoppers says victims lost £15million to courier scams in 2021.

More than eight million low-income households will see the first portion of the £650 one-off payment hit their bank accounts from July 14.

If the benefit cap was uprated with inflation, awards would be £3,670 higher than they are now.

A first cost of living payment worth £326 will arrive in Universal Credit claimants' bank accounts between July 14-31, the DWP says. But Labour fears the small print means a second payment may only arrive much later in the Autumn

Cap was introduced in 2013 to limit the amount of financial help most working-age people can get

Latest figures show 72% of PIP tribunals overturned DWP award decisions.