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Guidance on getting extra payments to help with the cost of living if you’re entitled to certain benefits or tax credits.
The information below has been extracted from a recently updated government paper which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cost-of-living-payment .
Low income benefits and tax credits Cost of Living Payment

There is help available from the government for pregnant women and parents of young children on low incomes to buy food and milk.
However, a recent switch from a paper process to an online process has led to a very low take-up of this vital provision.
Below are the basic

As budgets are squeezed it is important to know what help is out there for those on a low income. Here we look at the NHS’s Low Income Scheme; a scheme for helping low income households with NHS costs like prescription charges, dental charges, eye test costs and the costs

A snapshot online survey of 40 parents with school-age children across Coventry indicates that the ‘costs of a school day’ continue to increase, are a significant burden on parents, and go beyond the issue of school uniform costs.
Coventry Citizens Advice (CCA) distributed a short 10-question survey either side of

Recent days have seen media speculation that the government will keep the cap on average household gas and electricity bills at £2,500/year. But even at that level, energy bills would be more than double what they were 2 years ago.
There’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Market

Local elections are coming to Coventry in May and there are new requirements for those wishing to vote in-person in a polling station on election day.
Below are some key tips on:

Registering to Vote
Alternatives to voting in-person on election day at a Polling Station, and
New rules

Hundreds of young people in Coventry could take part in over 70 free activities, with a healthy meal provided, during the Easter Holidays; through the Holiday Activities & Food (HAF) programme.
The HAF programme works with over 35 different organisations to offer children who qualify for a free school meal

Coventry Citizens Advice have welcomed donations of computers by SortIT, a Warwick based IT Company, to help them advise people in debt who are being “trapped” by the escalating cost of living crisis.
The laptop and desktop computers will be used by staff to offer advice on benefits.
 
Coventry

Several months after £400 worth of support on energy bills was announced for all mainstream energy consumers, and at least one month later than planned, an alternative payments scheme has been announced for those who do not have a domestic electricity supply, either directly or through an intermediary, and who

On May 27th 2022, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the Government would convert an earlier proposal to support all energy customers with a £200 repayable ‘discount’ on their energy bills for winter 2022-23 with a £400 non-repayable discount.
The support, applied to household electricity bills, would start