The £650 payment for Universal Credit claimants, £150 for disabled benefit claimants and £300 for millions of pensioners has been tipped to be repeated next year in the Autumn Statement
A new round of cost-of-living payments for poor, disabled and pensioner Brits is tipped to be announced on Thursday.
Rishi Sunak has been drawing up plans to repeat the £650, £150 and £300 targeted payments the hard-up groups are receiving this year – but not the £400 that is going to all households.
A full package of energy bills support will be announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in Thursday’s Autumn Statement.
Multiple government sources did not deny reports in The Times that it would repeat the three cost-of-living payments.