Older people may be due over £1,100 to help with soaring energy bills this winter

Attendance Allowance is a benefit delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for people of State Pension age who need help with personal care or supervision because of an illness, disability or mental health condition. Successful claimants will receive either £81.85 or £92.40 each week depending on the level of care they need because of their health condition, which is paid every four weeks and works out at £247.40 and £369.560 respectively.

The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has written to domestic energy suppliers across the UK asking them to make their systems more responsive to positive changes in consumer behaviour in order to produce more accurate Direct Debits. In a letter to CEOs across the country, Grant Shapps urges them to ensure energy bills reflect what customers are using, rather than over-estimating charges.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that it will continue to encourage more than 11 million older people to check if they qualify for an annual income top-up worth, on average, more than £3,500 throughout December and the new year.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that more than 11.6 million pensioner households across the UK, including around one million in Scotland, have started to receive a one-off payment worth up to £600 to help with their heating bills this winter.

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Households are being urged tonegotiate their bills as customers are now in debt to their supplier by £206 on average.

State Pension payments are set to increase by 10.1% from next April for merely 12.5 million people across the UK, including 992,052 living in Scotland. However, despite a record-breaking rise in payments of the contributory benefit, over 1.8 million pensioners are receiving less than £100 per week in State Pension payments.

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State Pension provides essential financial support every four weeks for more than 12.5 million people across the UK, including 981,399 living in Scotland. This regular payment of up to £185.15 per week for the Full, new State Pension or £141.85 per week for the basic old State Pension (Category A or B) is available for those who have reached the UK Government’s eligible retirement age, which increased to 66 for both men and women in October 2020.

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The cold winter months are here and with them comes the dreaded rise in energy bills, and with the current cost of living crisis showing no signs of slowing, it can be especially daunting for households with children. A recent study from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicated that households with children spend £7,430.80 more per year than those without.

People aged over-50 are facing a lifetime of financial insecurity as a report reveals which age group is being hit the hardest by the cost of living crisis. Research from Edinburgh University’s Smart Data Foundry found economic inactivity rates have risen by a third for the over-50s age group since 2019.

Energy customers in Scotland claiming certain benefits may be able to get £150 deducted from their electricity bill this winter through the Warm Home Discount scheme. The money is paid directly by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to energy suppliers between October, 2022 and March, 2023.

The latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that in February 2022, nearly 12.5 millions people across the UK were receiving State Pension payments, including 1.1 million living abroad and 992,052 in Scotland.

The UK Government has dismissed a call by Labour to extend eligibility for free vehicle tax to include people of State Pension age in receipt of Attendance Allowance. Labour MP Seema Malhotra asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if any recent assessments had been made into the “potential merits” of doing so.