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Low income households could get extra help(Image: Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\nLow income households could get extra helpLow income households could get extra help(Image: Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n
UK households with low incomes will soon be able to apply for extra support.<\/p>\n
Applications for the latest round of cost of living payments will open in June.<\/p>\n
Local councils can help with certain costs as part of the Government’s Household Support Fund.<\/p>\n
This can be for energy and water bills, food or other essential items.<\/p>\n
In Birmingham<\/a>, the next applications for the \u00a3200 cost of living payments are expected to open very soon.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Thousands take advantage of DVLA ‘car tax loophole’ to avoid \u00a3195 bill hike<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The scheme is is run in partnership between Birmingham City Council<\/a> and Birmingham Voluntary Service Council (BVSC).<\/p>\n BVSC said: “Please be advised that enquiries will reopen in June 2025.<\/p>\n “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 June 2025.”<\/p>\n Don’t miss the biggest and breaking stories by signing up to the BirminghamLive newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Funding is issued to councils, who distribute the support to those in need, as part of the scheme.<\/p>\n To be eligible in Birmingham, you must be a resident in the city, be able to demonstrate that your household is experiencing financial hardship – in particular covering food and energy costs – and your household must not have received a \u00a3200 grant payment in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n Gov.uk says: “Funding is aimed at anyone who\u2019s vulnerable or cannot pay for essentials.<\/p>\n “You do not have to be getting benefits to get help from your local council.<\/p>\n “If you get benefits, they will not be affected if you get a payment from a Household Support Fund scheme.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Low income households could get extra helpLow income households could get extra help(Image: Getty Images\/iStockphoto) UK households with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,1267,393,4884,16,15,961],"class_list":{"0":"post-139641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-dwp","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-your-money"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}