DWP update on £150 disability cost of living payment – why your payment may arrive late | Personal Finance | Finance
The DWP has confirmed most people who are due to receive the £150 disability cost of living payment have now received the funds.
The support is going out between June 20 and July 4 to more than six million people. The funds will be paid automatically and claimants do not need to do anything if they are eligible.
If a person is checking their bank statement to see if the money has arrived, they should look out for their National Insurance number followed by ‘DWP COL’.
People on these benefits qualify for the support, if they were receiving their benefit on or before April 1, 2023:
- Disability Living Allowance
- Personal Independence Payment
- Attendance Allowance
- Scottish Disability Benefits (Adult Disability Payment and Child Disability Payment)
- Armed Forces Independence Payment
- Constant Attendance Allowance
- War Pension Mobility Supplement.
However, the DWP has also advised a small number of the £150 payments will go out after July 4 and the end of the payment window.
This will apply to claimants who were still awaiting confirmation of their eligibility to a qualifying disability benefit on April 1, the qualifying date for the payment.
A person may also get their payment later if they have changed the account their benefit is paid into.
The payment should still arrive automatically so a person does not need to take any action to receive the payment.
Several disability charities previously told Express.co.uk the payment would not be enough to meet the needs of disabled Britons.
Dan White, policy and campaigns officer at Disability Rights UK, said: “To keep our homes warm, power essential health and mobility equipment, and meet the spiralling cost of food, leaves millions of us without enough for essentials.
“Another round of cost-of-living payments is of course welcome, but unfortunately the amount is woefully inadequate.
“The Government says that it wants to support those who need it most, yet this payment does not come anywhere near achieving that.
“The unwillingness to understand the lives of disabled people with all the evidence of deepening poverty and worsening health is shocking and unacceptable.”
People who receive the payment may also want to check if they are eligible for a £900 cost of living payment going out to people on certain means-tested benefits, including Universal Credit and Pension Credit.
The first £301 instalment of this has already gone out with the second £300 payment going out in autumn 2023, with the third instalment of £299 in spring next year.
Pensioners who qualify for the Winter Fuel Payment this winter will also get an additional cost of living payment on top of this payment, of between £150 and £300.
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