The bill suggests a £900 cost of living payment to be paid in three instalments to roughly eight million households receiving means-tested benefits
The Social Security Bill was approved at the second reading by MPs. This means it will undergo further scrutiny by Parliament at a later date and paves the way for more help for the most vulnerable families in Britain.Read more: Vulnerable families across Greater Manchester to receive extra cash through DWP scheme
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride told MPs: “We still recognise that despite the relief that will provide to millions up and down the country, we still need to provide further support payments.” The legislation, he added, will set out the “basis of qualification for the payments”, who makes the payments plus timing of them. He continued: “The reality is we cannot iron out all possible hard edges here, but what we did do is to break the payments into three payments this financial year.”Meanwhile, the shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Labour does not plan to oppose the legislation, noting that people "need extra support".
He added: “Families have been asked to endure the most brutal cuts and freezes to social security that have rendered out-of-work benefits at their lowest levels for 30 years. It’s meant that poorer families have entered this crisis with less resilience, less protection and less to fall back on than they otherwise have had … I’ve heard stories of pensioners using tea lights to try in vain to heat tins of beans.
“The safety net is now so threadbare that in this food bank Britain, hunger, the cold and the constant dread of the bailiffs has become a way of life, but it shouldn’t be a way to live.”
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