The Latest Breaking News from Universal Credit

Here are the headlines from the Daily Record website today.

Universal Credit claimants will receive the first part of a one-off £650 cost of living payment from next month. The first instalment of £326 will start to hit bank accounts from July 14

Schools will be able to spend £2.41 per child on infant meals backdated to April, a rise of 7p - which was branded 'pathetic' by critics

Those on health and disability benefits say they have not been included in the full amount, despite having higher costs than those on other welfare payments

Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford writes in the Mirror on why we desperately need a Labour government in Westminster - a government which really understands the cost of living crisis and is determined to mobilise the help people need

Teachers have branded the decision ‘extraordinary’.

Prime Minister is accused of doing little to tackler child hunger or soaring prices in new food strategy unveiled today

Parents are spending a massive chunk of their pay packets on childcare bills

Henry Dimbleby said it was 'impossible' to claim kids on Universal Credit don't all need free school meals - as he warned the cost of living crisis is hitting some of Britain's poorest families hard