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Certain households can get extra support<\/p>\nCertain households can get extra supportCertain households can get extra support<\/p>\n
Extra cost of living payments will be on offer to UK households within days.<\/p>\n
As part of the Household Support Fund, people on low incomes can qualify for extra support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP<\/a>).<\/p>\n This can be for living costs such as energy and water bills, as well as food.<\/p>\n Cash can also be used for other essential items such as sanitary products, clothing, soap and blankets.<\/p>\n In the Midlands, applications for the latest round of \u00a3200 cost-of-living payments will open in June.<\/p>\n READ MORE: <\/strong>Met Office verdict on UK heatwave as hot summer predicted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Across the UK, local councils decided who can get support and how the funding is allocated on behalf of the Government.<\/p>\n Birmingham City Council<\/a> and Birmingham<\/a> Voluntary Service Council (BVSC) run the scheme for people living in Birmingham.<\/p>\n BVSC previously 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 by the government to councils, who then distribute the support to those in need.<\/p>\n In Birmingham, you can only apply if you are a resident in the city and can demonstrate that your household is experiencing financial hardship – in particular covering food and energy costs.<\/p>\n You must also 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":"Certain households can get extra supportCertain households can get extra support Extra cost of living payments will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,961],"class_list":{"0":"post-150460","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-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-your-money"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114610294491520621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150460","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=150460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}