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Benefit payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), including Personal Independence Payment (PIP), are set to receive a payment rate boost next week.
Benefit payments from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), such as Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the state pension will be awarded a rate hike in only a few weeks' time.
Having the heating on, we should be able to do that. mel eyers ending that report by michael buchanan. and michaeljoins me now — michael, there have been some results released today from a survey about the impact of winter pressures on adults. this is carried out by the office for national statistics, they surveyed just over 4500 people across great britain in the four weeks to the 18th of december, but they were looking at was the impact of rising prices and nhs pressures and what they found perhaps will not be a surprise to many of these communities in devon, they found that nearly one in ...
Michael, related to this there's been a survey about the impact of winter pressures? indeed, they are a surveyed just overfour indeed, they are a surveyed just over four and a indeed, they are a surveyed just overfour and a half indeed, they are a surveyed just over four and a half thousand people across britain in the four weeks up to do the 18th, so that is in the lead up to christmas and you may remember there was that cold start late november early december, so it looks at that, and they found around one four people are finding they are struggling to heat their homes comfortably, but at th...
A cut to a benefit payment left him struggling. universal credits cut my payments by £300 a month. and i struggled for a while, but i was getting deeper and deeper in debt. i was stressed out. i wasn't talking to anybody. i wasn't doing anything, i was stuck in the house seven days a week, twenty—four hours a day. i felt totally embarrassed. i didn't want the family to know how low i'd gone. isolated from his loved ones, alan says a food bank became a lifeline. a place of refuge. just the community feeling there — the way they looked after you, wrapped their arms around you and said, "com...