20,200 Torbay families to receive new cost-of-living payment this spring

Reporter:

Nikki Belso

07 Feb 2023 8:29 PM

Torbay families on means-tested benefits will automatically receive £301 this spring - while people on disability benefits will receive a £150 payment this summer, it has been announced. In Torbay, it is estimated that 20,200 Torbay households will be el

Torbay families on means-tested benefits will automatically receive £301 this spring - while people on disability benefits will receive a £150 payment this summer, it has been announced.

In Torbay, it is estimated that 20,200 Torbay households will be eligible for the means-tested benefit cost-of-living payment and 19,400 individuals eligible for the disability cost-of-living payment.

The £301 payment is the first of five direct cost-of-living payments for the most vulnerable households, including pensioners and disabled people, with the total amount of support reaching up to £1,350.

Eligible households will be in receipt of one of the following benefits: Universal Credit, Income-based Jobseekers Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Pension Credit.

People on qualifying disability benefits will receive a disability cost-of-living payment of £150 during summer 2023. This includes those in receipt of one of the following benefits: Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment, Attendance Allowance, Scottish Disability Benefits, Armed Forces Independence Payment, Constant Attendance Allowance and War Pension Mobility Supplement.

After confirming the payment schedule for five cost-of-living payments through the 2023/24 financial year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has today announced in Parliament more detail on the support.

This includes estimates of how many people across the UK, and in each local authority and parliamentary constituency, will receive the first £301 cost-of-living payment and the £150 disability payment, which follows on from up to £1,200 in support for low-income households in 2022.

Central Devon MP Mel Stride, Work and Pensions Secretary, said: "These direct payments will help people right across the UK over this year and the start of the next, as we continue to provide consistent, targeted and substantial support for the most vulnerable.

"Our wider support package, including the Energy Price Guarantee, will ensure every household is being helped through this challenging period of high inflation, caused by Putin’s illegal war and the aftershocks of the pandemic."

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said: "High inflation, exacerbated by Putin’s illegal war, is hurting economies across the world and making people poorer.

"These payments are the next part of the significant support we are providing through this challenging time, with millions of vulnerable households receiving £900 directly into their bank accounts this financial year alongside additional help for pensioners and those with disabilities.

"This latest payment will provide some temporary relief, but the best thing we can do to help families and businesses is to stick to the plan to halve inflation this year."

Exact payment windows and qualifying periods for eligibility will be announced in due course, but are designed to ensure a consistent support offer throughout the year.

Payment windows will be broadly:

£301 – first 2023/24 cost-of-living payment – during apring 2023
£150 – 2023 Disability Payment – during summer 2023
£300 – second 2023/24 cost-of-living payment – during autumn 2023
£300 – 2023 Pensioner Payment – during winter 2023/4
£299 – third 2023/24 cost-of-living payment – during spring 2024.

There are several benefits that could make claimants eligible for the £301 cost-of-living payment, including Universal Credit and tax credits – through which 5.4million households across the UK are expected to qualify, and Pension Credit, through which 1.4million pensioner households are expected to be paid.

Around 1.3million will be eligible through legacy DWP benefits such as Jobseekers Allowance and Income Support, reaching a total of 8.1million households.

Eligible individuals do not need to apply for payments, as they are made automatically. Those eligible for cost of living payments through tax credits, and no other means-tested benefits, will be paid by HMRC shortly after DWP payments are made.

This builds on the government’s wider support package, which includes further funding for the Household Support Fund, bringing its total value for October 2021 to March 2024 to over £2billion. The fund is distributed to English councils, who know their areas best and are then able to offer direct support for those most in need in their local area.

Every household with a domestic electricity supply is also benefitting from the Energy Price Guarantee, which is saving the average household around £900 this winter and a further £500 in 2023/24 by capping energy costs.

Benefits will also rise in line with inflation from April, which will see a 10.1 per cent increase for pensioners and those on the lowest incomes, while the National Living Wage will see its biggest ever cash rise, bringing it to £10.42 an hour.

This all follows on from 2022’s support package, which included:

. a £650 cost-of-living payment for means-tested benefit claimants, split into two payments, each of which supported over eight million households

. further £300 and £150 payments, which reached over eight million pensioner households and six million disabled people respectively

. a £150 Council Tax rebate for all households in Council Tax bands A to D in England

. a £400 energy bill discount for all households, which will continue to run through March 2023.

Estimated number of households eligible for the means-tested benefit cost-of-living payment and number of individuals eligible for the disability cost-of-living payment by local authority:

Local Authority	Benefit units eligible for the means-tested payment	Individuals eligible for the disability payment
Aberdeen City	22,900	18,200
Aberdeenshire	19,800	18,500
Adur	6,500	6,400
Allerdale	11,500	11,600
Amber Valley	13,200	13,900
Angus	13,300	12,200
Argyll and Bute	9,400	9,900
Arun	17,100	16,600
Ashfield	16,800	16,700
Ashford	13,700	12,200
Babergh	7,700	7,500
Barking and Dagenham	35,600	18,000
Barnet	45,800	26,600
Barnsley	36,500	35,300
Barrow-in-Furness	8,500	9,600
Basildon	22,100	18,000
Basingstoke and Deane	14,100	12,400
Bassetlaw	14,000	13,800
Bath and North East Somerset	15,400	14,600
Bedford	20,000	14,500
Bexley	23,800	20,700
Birmingham	208,800	122,300
Blaby	8,200	8,100
Blackburn with Darwen	27,100	18,400
Blackpool	29,000	23,200
Blaenau Gwent	11,900	12,500
Bolsover	10,500	11,800
Bolton	46,300	33,300
Boston	10,200	7,200
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	44,900	36,000
Bracknell Forest	9,000	7,600
Bradford	91,500	56,800
Braintree	14,400	13,100
Breckland	13,900	13,400
Brent	54,300	25,300
Brentwood	5,500	5,200
Bridgend / Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr	19,800	22,500
Brighton and Hove	33,000	25,100
Bristol, City of	52,900	41,900
Broadland	10,100	11,400
Bromley	27,500	23,000
Bromsgrove	7,400	8,100
Broxbourne	10,700	8,300
Broxtowe	10,500	10,700
Buckinghamshire	39,500	33,900
Burnley	16,300	12,100
Bury	25,200	20,800
Caerphilly / Caerffili	26,900	30,100
Calderdale	28,700	20,600
Cambridge	9,700	7,000
Camden	28,300	18,400
Cannock Chase	11,900	11,400
Canterbury	16,100	15,400
Cardiff / Caerdydd	47,300	39,100
Carlisle	12,700	12,100
Carmarthenshire / Sir Gaerfyrddin	25,200	28,600
Castle Point	8,300	9,200
Central Bedfordshire	22,600	20,700
Ceredigion	8,300	8,200
Charnwood	15,700	14,000
Chelmsford	13,700	12,600
Cheltenham	10,200	8,500
Cherwell	12,400	11,100
Cheshire East	33,700	34,200
Cheshire West and Chester	36,400	36,200
Chesterfield	14,300	14,600
Chichester	10,200	9,600
Chorley	11,700	11,000
City of Edinburgh	46,600	40,000
City of London	600	300
Clackmannanshire	7,200	6,600
Colchester	18,200	17,300
Conwy	15,400	16,300
Copeland	8,000	9,300
Cornwall	67,300	58,500
Cotswold	6,100	6,000
County Durham	76,700	75,200
Coventry	48,200	33,900
Craven	4,300	4,600
Crawley	13,800	9,200
Croydon	55,200	31,200
Dacorum	13,200	11,400
Darlington	15,100	11,800
Dartford	10,700	8,900
Denbighshire / Sir Ddinbych	14,100	15,200
Derby	37,100	28,700
Derbyshire Dales	5,200	6,000
Doncaster	45,800	38,100
Dorset	34,200	36,500
Dover	14,500	13,700
Dudley	43,100	35,100
Dumfries and Galloway	19,300	20,200
Dundee City	23,200	19,800
Ealing	51,300	25,300
East Ayrshire	18,600	17,300
East Cambridgeshire	6,400	6,200
East Devon	12,800	13,900
East Dunbartonshire	8,600	10,900
East Hampshire	8,100	7,800
East Hertfordshire	10,000	9,200
East Lindsey	19,800	21,500
East Lothian	11,000	10,200
East Renfrewshire	7,300	9,400
East Riding of Yorkshire	32,300	32,300
East Staffordshire	13,100	10,400
East Suffolk	25,500	26,400
Eastbourne	14,200	12,200
Eastleigh	10,500	10,200
Eden	4,100	4,300
Elmbridge	7,800	7,300
Enfield	54,000	28,500
Epping Forest	11,400	9,800
Epsom and Ewell	4,800	5,100
Erewash	13,200	12,000
Exeter	12,400	11,500
Falkirk	19,800	19,000
Fareham	7,400	8,200
Fenland	12,700	11,600
Fife	46,600	42,100
Flintshire / Sir y Fflint	18,000	17,800
Folkestone and Hythe	13,800	14,400
Forest of Dean	8,700	8,600
Fylde	8,100	9,100
Gateshead	30,300	26,100
Gedling	12,000	12,000
Glasgow City	109,200	95,100
Gloucester	15,300	12,500
Gosport	9,500	8,400
Gravesham	12,700	10,100
Great Yarmouth	16,300	13,600
Greenwich	39,400	23,700
Guildford	8,400	8,200
Gwynedd	14,200	12,900
Hackney	45,700	24,400
Halton	20,300	19,000
Hambleton	7,100	7,700
Hammersmith and Fulham	24,200	12,900
Harborough	6,300	6,300
Haringey	45,000	21,600
Harlow	12,300	8,200
Harrogate	12,200	11,600
Harrow	27,900	17,200
Hart	4,900	5,200
Hartlepool	17,800	15,000
Hastings	15,600	11,900
Havant	14,100	13,200
Havering	26,700	20,700
Herefordshire, County of	18,100	17,400
Hertsmere	9,900	8,100
High Peak	8,900	8,900
Highland	25,000	24,000
Hillingdon	33,800	22,200
Hinckley and Bosworth	9,900	9,800
Horsham	9,300	9,400
Hounslow	38,100	19,000
Huntingdonshire	13,500	13,200
Hyndburn	13,800	10,700
Inverclyde	13,500	13,100
Ipswich	18,600	13,900
Isle of Anglesey / Ynys Môn	8,800	8,700
Isle of Wight	17,600	18,500
Isles of Scilly	100	100
Islington	33,100	21,600
Kensington and Chelsea	16,000	10,200
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk	16,600	16,700
Kingston upon Hull, City of	47,500	31,600
Kingston upon Thames	13,500	9,500
Kirklees	59,200	42,100
Knowsley	29,000	26,200
Lambeth	45,600	22,700
Lancaster	17,100	15,400
Leeds	99,800	70,500
Leicester	58,000	32,800
Lewes	10,100	10,300
Lewisham	45,500	23,700
Lichfield	8,900	9,300
Lincoln	13,700	10,400
Liverpool	88,900	76,400
Luton	32,300	18,200
Maidstone	16,300	14,100
Maldon	5,400	5,500
Malvern Hills	7,000	7,300
Manchester	97,100	59,800
Mansfield	15,500	15,100
Medway	33,200	27,400
Melton	4,400	3,900
Mendip	11,500	9,600
Merthyr Tydfil / Merthyr Tudful	10,100	10,600
Merton	22,200	12,800
Mid Devon	7,800	7,500
Mid Suffolk	7,700	8,200
Mid Sussex	9,400	9,400
Middlesbrough	27,400	19,600
Midlothian	10,600	10,800
Milton Keynes	29,600	21,800
Mole Valley	5,200	5,800
Monmouthshire / Sir Fynwy	8,600	9,900
Moray	9,400	8,400
Na h-Eileanan Siar	2,900	3,300
Neath Port Talbot / Castell-nedd Port Talbot	22,800	26,300
New Forest	13,700	15,600
Newark and Sherwood	12,900	13,700
Newcastle upon Tyne	44,000	32,500
Newcastle-under-Lyme	13,200	13,500
Newham	58,900	25,300
Newport / Casnewydd	23,100	20,800
North Ayrshire	22,600	20,500
North Devon	10,800	9,900
North East Derbyshire	10,800	12,400
North East Lincolnshire	24,700	19,000
North Hertfordshire	10,400	10,200
North Kesteven	9,900	11,400
North Lanarkshire	51,800	52,500
North Lincolnshire	21,400	18,800
North Norfolk	10,600	11,000
North Northamptonshire	38,300	32,400
North Somerset	20,600	20,300
North Tyneside	26,900	23,900
North Warwickshire	6,700	6,700
North West Leicestershire	9,300	9,000
Northumberland	36,800	37,500
Norwich	19,300	14,400
Nottingham	52,700	36,200
Nuneaton and Bedworth	16,700	14,600
Oadby and Wigston	5,200	5,200
Oldham	41,200	27,600
Orkney Islands	1,900	2,200
Oxford	12,800	9,400
Pembrokeshire / Sir Benfro	16,100	16,100
Pendle	14,900	10,700
Perth and Kinross	14,500	14,400
Peterborough	31,500	20,000
Plymouth	35,300	32,200
Portsmouth	26,600	18,700
Powys	14,100	15,000
Preston	21,200	15,600
Reading	18,100	11,200
Redbridge	37,500	20,200
Redcar and Cleveland	21,500	19,100
Redditch	10,500	8,300
Reigate and Banstead	10,100	10,000
Renfrewshire	23,700	23,700
Rhondda Cynon Taf	35,400	38,800
Ribble Valley	4,000	4,600
Richmond upon Thames	12,900	9,700
Richmondshire	3,800	3,900
Rochdale	38,000	27,000
Rochford	6,400	6,900
Rossendale	9,200	7,800
Rother	10,300	10,800
Rotherham	38,800	36,000
Rugby	10,300	8,500
Runnymede	6,200	5,800
Rushcliffe	7,500	8,600
Rushmoor	9,600	6,700
Rutland	2,500	2,700
Ryedale	4,800	4,600
Salford	42,100	31,000
Sandwell	58,200	39,700
Scarborough	14,700	13,800
Scottish Borders	12,200	10,800
Sedgemoor	13,700	12,100
Sefton	39,800	39,000
Selby	7,600	7,500
Sevenoaks	8,500	9,300
Sheffield	74,100	63,000
Shetland Islands	1,800	2,100
Shropshire	30,300	29,900
Slough	19,900	9,800
Solihull	22,000	21,200
Somerset West and Taunton	16,200	15,200
South Ayrshire	14,600	14,400
South Cambridgeshire	9,800	9,900
South Derbyshire	9,400	9,700
South Gloucestershire	22,200	23,600
South Hams	7,700	7,900
South Holland	10,500	9,400
South Kesteven	13,500	12,700
South Lakeland	7,400	8,800
South Lanarkshire	42,800	43,900
South Norfolk	11,300	11,800
South Oxfordshire	8,800	8,600
South Ribble	10,600	11,000
South Somerset	16,500	15,300
South Staffordshire	9,800	10,300
South Tyneside	25,800	21,700
Southampton	32,600	23,300
Southend-on-Sea	24,200	18,000
Southwark	45,300	24,100
Spelthorne	8,600	7,600
St Albans	9,100	8,400
St. Helens	26,900	27,300
Stafford	11,700	12,100
Staffordshire Moorlands	8,100	9,400
Stevenage	9,800	8,800
Stirling	8,900	8,800
Stockport	31,300	29,700
Stockton-on-Tees	27,100	23,700
Stoke-on-Trent	41,400	32,200
Stratford-on-Avon	10,300	9,900
Stroud	9,400	9,100
Sunderland	47,300	42,800
Surrey Heath	5,300	5,500
Sutton	20,300	15,000
Swale	18,400	17,400
Swansea / Abertawe	34,500	35,900
Swindon	24,400	19,400
Tameside	35,200	27,900
Tamworth	9,200	8,000
Tandridge	6,100	6,100
Teignbridge	13,300	14,000
Telford and Wrekin	24,200	22,000
Tendring	21,000	22,600
Test Valley	9,500	9,100
Tewkesbury	7,500	7,100
Thanet	23,200	19,200
Three Rivers	6,500	6,000
Thurrock	19,900	14,100
Tonbridge and Malling	10,100	10,400
Torbay	20,200	19,400
Torfaen / Tor-faen	14,200	14,900
Torridge	7,800	7,400
Tower Hamlets	49,800	23,600
Trafford	23,100	20,400
Tunbridge Wells	9,000	8,000
Uttlesford	5,600	5,300
Vale of Glamorgan / Bro Morgannwg	14,900	15,700
Vale of White Horse	9,100	8,800
Wakefield	46,600	42,500
Walsall	45,500	34,100
Waltham Forest	38,600	20,300
Wandsworth	31,900	18,200
Warrington	22,200	20,700
Warwick	11,000	9,500
Watford	10,200	6,500
Waverley	7,200	7,700
Wealden	12,300	12,900
Welwyn Hatfield	10,600	8,900
West Berkshire	11,100	10,000
West Devon	5,200	5,500
West Dunbartonshire	15,100	14,200
West Lancashire	13,500	13,000
West Lindsey	10,300	10,600
West Lothian	22,600	22,300
West Northamptonshire	40,300	31,700
West Oxfordshire	7,700	7,500
West Suffolk	15,400	13,700
Westminster	26,400	17,000
Wigan	44,200	40,300
Wiltshire	41,400	40,500
Winchester	8,200	7,800
Windsor and Maidenhead	9,700	8,300
Wirral	46,500	48,200
Woking	7,400	6,900
Wokingham	8,900	8,900
Wolverhampton	46,000	29,800
Worcester	11,300	9,200
Worthing	11,400	10,800
Wrexham / Wrecsam	18,100	17,400
Wychavon	11,500	11,200
Wyre	13,200	15,200
Wyre Forest	11,800	10,900
York	15,600	14,100
Antrim and Newtownabbey	21,300	23,700
Ards and North Down	33,200	35,400
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon	24,900	25,900
Belfast	80,000	71,300
Causeway Coast and Glens	26,000	25,600
Derry and Strabane	38,200	35,200
Fermanagh and Omagh	20,100	21,900
Lisburn and Castlereagh	17,200	20,000
Mid and East Antrim	21,900	24,000
Mid Ulster	24,100	23,700
Newry, Mourne and Down	31,900	31,800

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