{"id":165786,"date":"2025-06-07T19:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165786\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:52:12","slug":"households-issued-date-for-arrival-of-new-200-cost-of-living-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165786\/","title":{"rendered":"Households issued date for arrival of new \u00a3200 cost of living payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The council has issued a date for when households can expect new \u00a3200 cost of living payments to arrive<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_Pound-coins-and-bank-notes.jpg\" alt=\"Households can apply for the \u00a3200 payments once applications reopen\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Households can apply for the \u00a3200 payments once applications reopen(Image: Getty Images\/Science Photo Libra)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Households have been told when they can expect the arrival of new \u00a3200 cost of living payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The payments are known as hardship grants and will be made available by <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The local authority said applications are set to reopen later this month in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE: <\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/money\/nationwide-issues-alert-over-200-31773493\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Nationwide issues alert over \u00a3200 payments going out to customers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get breaking news on <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/FJKVhwxllixI0DiCj9e2sk\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"[object Object]Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">BirminghamLive WhatsApp<\/a>, click the link to join<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">That means households living in the city will be able to make an application to receive the funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">It comes as the latest round of the government&#8217;s Household Support Fund (HSF) opened on April 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The pot of cash, which is delivered via the Department for Work and Pensions (<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/dwp\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">DWP<\/a>), funds such schemes as the one by <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/birmingham-city-council\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham City Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The council previously had applications running for its hardship grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">But this closed in March, in line with the ending of the previous round of HSF funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Birmingham City Council has three sets of criteria in order for households to be eligible for the payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">These are that applicants are a permanent resident, be able to demonstrate you&#8217;re experiencing financial hardship and not have received a \u00a3200 payment in the past 12 months &#8211; see more <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bvsc.org\/hsf\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Advising households on when applications will reopen, a spokesperson for the council scheme said: &#8220;Please be advised that enquiries will reopen in late June 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council has issued a date for when households can expect new \u00a3200 cost of living payments to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,1267,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-165786","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114643831933152508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165786","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=165786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}