The council has issued a date for when households can expect new £200 cost of living payments to arrive
Households can apply for the £200 payments once applications reopen(Image: Getty Images/Science Photo Libra)
Households have been told when they can expect the arrival of new £200 cost of living payments.
The payments are known as hardship grants and will be made available by Birmingham City Council.
The local authority said applications are set to reopen later this month in June.
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That means households living in the city will be able to make an application to receive the funding.
It comes as the latest round of the government’s Household Support Fund (HSF) opened on April 1.
The pot of cash, which is delivered via the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), funds such schemes as the one by Birmingham City Council.
The council previously had applications running for its hardship grants.
But this closed in March, in line with the ending of the previous round of HSF funding.
Birmingham City Council has three sets of criteria in order for households to be eligible for the payments.
These are that applicants are a permanent resident, be able to demonstrate you’re experiencing financial hardship and not have received a £200 payment in the past 12 months – see more here.
Advising households on when applications will reopen, a spokesperson for the council scheme said: “Please be advised that enquiries will reopen in late June 2025.
“If you are not currently on the waiting list, and it has now been 12 months since your household last received a grant payment, you will be able to submit a new enquiry once the scheme reopens in late June 2025.”