MILLIONS of Brits with a disability will receive a £150 payment in April next year, Jeremy Hunt is expected to confirm today.
The Chancellor is set to announce a second disability cost of living payment during the Autumn Statement at 11.30am today.
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It comes after millions of disabled Brits were entitled to an initial £150 instalment this September.
The new payment is likely to work similarly to first one.
It’s expected to go specifically to Brits who claim a qualifying disability benefit from either the Ministry of Defence or the Department for Work and Pensions.
Meanwhile, poor pensioners are expected to get £300 and there will be another £650 payment for Brits on benefits in April next year too.
The move comes as the Office for National Statistics yesterday announced inflation has hit a whopping 11.1 per cent.
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More details about the disability payment will emerge at 11.30am, today, when Mr Hunt delivers the Autumn Statement in the Commons.
The budget will detail how the Treasury intends fill an estimated £60bn black hole in the public purse.
The gap came about due to a combination of the pandemic, soaring energy costs and Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget.
The Chancellor is set to tell the Commons: “High inflation is the enemy of stability. It means higher mortgage rates, more expensive food and fuel bills, businesses failing and unemployment rising.
“It erodes savings, causes industrial unrest, and cuts funding for public services. It hurts the poorest the most and eats away at the trust upon which a strong society is built.
“We are taking a balanced path to stability: tackling the inflation that eats away at a pensioners savings and increases the cost of mortgages to families, at the same time supporting the economy to recover. But it depends on taking difficult decisions now.”
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During the budget, the Chancellor is also set to raise the National Living Wage to £10.40, as well as hiking pensions and benefits by 10.1 per cent with inflation.
But in a major blow to hard-up Brits, Mr Hunt is expected to reduce the Energy Price Guarantee so the average family pays around £3,000 for bills – above the current £2,500 but less than Ofgem’s £4,000.
