{"id":615371,"date":"2022-06-15T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=615371"},"modified":"2022-06-15T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:41:44","slug":"millions-to-get-first-cost-of-living-payment-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/millions-to-get-first-cost-of-living-payment-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions to get First Cost-of-Living Payment Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cost-of-living is a new one off payment that the government in the UK are doing to help those who will be struggling with living costs all across the UK, mainly to do with the new living costs going up and to help those with the cost of petrol!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new living costs will be increasing all across the UK and there are more than eight million people across the UK that will receive a payment of \u00a3650 and the payments are coming sooner than some people may have thought!<\/p>\n<p>The payment will be split into two individual payments. Meaning one month you will get \u00a3326 and then the next month \u00a3324, rather than the \u00a3650 payment straight off the bat. This means that there will be two payments rather than one all together.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The success of these measures will ultimately be judged by whether financial help is getting to the most vulnerable in time to help them through this cost-of-living crisis.&#8221; said the Policy Director Rocio Concha!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_615372\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-615372\" class=\"wp-image-615372 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/124900902_optimised-energy_price_cap_24_mayv1-nc-1024x864.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/124900902_optimised-energy_price_cap_24_mayv1-nc-1024x864.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/124900902_optimised-energy_price_cap_24_mayv1-nc-300x253.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/124900902_optimised-energy_price_cap_24_mayv1-nc-768x648.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/124900902_optimised-energy_price_cap_24_mayv1-nc-1536x1296.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/124900902_optimised-energy_price_cap_24_mayv1-nc-2048x1728.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-615372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is to help those who typically struggle with money in general as there are a lot of people across the UK struggling with money due to help with costs of living and petrol prices as they continue to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are eligible are those who are on benefits listed below!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Universal Credit<\/li>\n<li>income-based Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance (<abbr title=\"Jobseeker's Allowance\">JSA<\/abbr>)<\/li>\n<li>income-related Employment and Support Allowance (<abbr title=\"Employment and Support Allowance\">ESA<\/abbr>)<\/li>\n<li>Income Support<\/li>\n<li>Pension Credit<\/li>\n<li>Child Tax Credit<\/li>\n<li>Working Tax Credit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"jss492 jss73 jss75 jss74\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/melis\">Melinda Nagy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost-of-living is a new one off payment that the government in the UK are doing to help those who will be struggling with living costs all across the UK, mainly to do with the new living costs going up and to help those with the cost of petrol!\u00a0 The new living costs will be increasing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":615373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[2071],"class_list":["post-615371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-uk-news","tag-latest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615374,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615371\/revisions\/615374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}