Tax credits provide 1.5 million working families with targeted financial support to help them stay in work and raise their families. With the deadline for renewing your Tax Credits fast approaching, Parenting Daily put a list of questions to the experts at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to ensure you have the answers you need.
An additional 200,000 Universal Credit claimants will be able to access quicker support with their mortgage from 3rd April.
Support for Mortgage Interest loan scheme extended to 200,000 additional Universal Credit claimants in efforts to support more households with the cost of living
They will be able to access help towards mortgage interest on their home or certain home
An additional £842 million is available from 1st April 2023 to help the most vulnerable households across England with essential food and energy costs.
Department for Work and Pensions’ £842 million Household Support Fund extension comes into effect today
Extra money given to councils to provide further help to most in need with essential food and energy costs until 31 March
Millions of UK households will receive £301 directly from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) between 25 April and 17 May.
This is the first of three payments totalling up to £900 for those eligible and on means-tested benefits, such as Universal Credit or Pension Credit, in 2023/24. This follows the £650 Cost of Living Payment made to over eight million people in 2022.
Families in the South West could save up to £2,000 a year towards their childcare costs to help pay for October half-term holiday clubs and wraparound care during the school terms, reminds HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
More than 37,000 families in the South West saved money on their childcare costs in June 2022 and HMRC is urging thousands of other families to not miss the chance to...
Cost of Living Business Tsar and former Just Eat boss David Buttress agrees deals and discounts with major UK businesses to form part of Help for Household campaign.
Cost of Living Business Tsar and former Just Eat boss David Buttress agrees deals and discounts with major UK businesses to form part of Help for Household campaign.
Almost one in four families across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will get £326 sent directly to them from today, with the second instalment of £324 sent later this year as part of the government’s £37 billion support package.
£326 – the first of two cost of living payments – will automatically hit seven million bank accounts between today and 31 July 2022 as
Millions of households across the UK will benefit from a new £15 billion package of targeted government support to help with the rising cost of living, the Chancellor announced today (26 May).
Almost all of the eight million most vulnerable households across the UK will receive support of at least £1,200 this year, including a new one-off £650 cost of living payment
