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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.

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

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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