Not a billion and not on top of the £150 towards council tax bills but just £500m which spread over all the councils, deducting the £150 given to those who qualify it really amounts to chicken feed, still they have cut fuel duty so hip hip hooray.
Yes that is correct. Also Elsies home when she would have paid rent was subsidised .
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Oh for gawd sake that’s dated March 2020, that was to help with the pandemic. We’re now in 2022 and are past the pandemic we now have a war going on.
Elsie doesn’t live in a large 3 bed council house, she lives in a council flat in London.
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Oops so it is my mistake so could you link me to the government site that details the billions in the hardship fund which I have not heard one Tory including the Prime Minister mention in recent days/weeks.
And I think you will find that the war is between the Ukraine and Russia we as yet are not involved directly.
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This government site says it’s £421m:
£421 million has been made available to County Councils and Unitary Authorities in England to support those most in need to help with significantly rising living costs. This funding covers the period 01 April 2022 to 30 September 2022 inclusive. Local Authorities have discretion on exactly how this funding is used within the scope set out in the accompanying grant determination and this guidance. The expectation is that it should primarily be used to support households in the most need particularly those including children and pensioners who would otherwise struggled with energy bills, food and water bills.
In England there are:
County councils 24
Unitary authorities 58
Metropolitan districts 36
London boroughs 32
City of London 1
If split evenly, that would be £3m or so each but that’s unlikely.
The complexity of administration of the fund is likely to cost more than the money distributed:
Certainly no billions being handed out to councils, their chums for a failed track and trace app and dodgy PPE and fraudulent loans is another thing entirely.
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Omah has just posted the same article as I’ve previously posted.
In Boris’s interview yesterday he wasn’t allowed to tell people the help that there is out there.
I’m assuming it was George Eustice you saw on Channel 4, maybe in that interview he was given the same treatment. Who knows, but on LBC he did say it.
The Government has also given money to energy companies for people on low incomes to apply for help through their energy companies.
I think it’s awful that these news outlets aren’t giving the full picture and where people can go for help in their aim to diss the Government:
*From the government
You might qualify for the:
- Winter Fuel Payment – a £100 to £300 fuel payment for people born on or before 26 September 1955.
- Cold Weather Payment – a £25 payment for every 7 days of very cold weather between November and March.
- Warm Home Discount – a £140 discount for some people getting Pension Credit or some people in low-income households.
- Household Support Fund - a funding package to help vulnerable households this winter. Contact your local council for advice and help on accessing the fund.
I haven’t posted the article - I’ve posted a link to government website, from which I have extracted and posted relevent information.
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“might” is the operative word … 
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Nope it was not him and it was not an interview it was a debate on Channel 4 news last night and it was a female Tory MP who said nothing more than what we have all heard many times over the past days and weeks and no mention of this billion pounds of help you keep mentioning.
I see that you list the Warm Home Discount this is not new and has been around for quite sometime and there has been calls for those entitled to it be widened but the government has refused this.
Cold Weather Payment is sounds better than it actually is and again has been around for years and again not new and is not paid out very often as it paid out after 7 days of below zero degrees Celsius rarely happens.
And the Household Support Fund only provides £500m of new money taking the total to £1B.
So where is the billions of new money to help the poorest?
As for dissing the government, when it is led by an inveterate liar what on earth can you expect?
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Exactly. And in any case the government have no money, it’s tax payers money. Moreover providing tax payers money to charities is more than a little disingenuous. For example let’s take Shelter. All that is happening is that the government is absolving itself from ensuring that the British, and especially the ENGLISH people, have at least a roof over their head by passing the buck to a partially funded charity.
See my post 37, I posted the exact same article from the Government website. And provided the exact same Government link that you did.
AFAIK, links are public, not personal, property.
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Well George Eustice is a member of the Government, so I would expect him to be more knowledgeable than an MP and if you’d have seen him this morning as he’s doing the rounds he’d have mentioned it. I haven’t actually seen him on Sky News, but whilst I was watching Ian King this morning, the banner line mentioned it.
The Government has widened the amount of people who can receive the War Home Discount.
Yep I know that, got no idea what you’re going on about.
You appear to want to claim ownership … 
Can you link to this?
Sorry you are losing me as I have seen the Eustice interview and what is he supposed to have mentioned apart from how great Tory councillors are?
Has there been a U-turn?
The government has announced a major change to its rules around the warm home discount which mean thousands of benefits claimants might no longer receive the payments. The UK government has changed its rules around eligibility for the warm home discount, which allows energy providers to give households discounts to their bills.
In its response to a consultation on the scheme on April 1, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has set out a number of key changes which will come into force in July this year. Among the changes are that people who only claim disability living allowance (DLA) or personal independence payments (PIP) will no longer be eligible for the discount from July. According to Money Saving Expert, this means almost 300,000 disability benefit claimants will no longer able to get the rebate.
Blooming heck why don’t you do your own research. Just because you watch different news channels to me, doesn’t mean that things aren’t said, aren’t done.
A quick google and this article came up: