Written questions

Cost of Living Payments

Commons · Question 25518 · Tabled 21 Jan 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 27 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing the (a) Low Income Benefits, (b) Disability and (c) Pensioner Cost of Living payment.

Answer

Answered by Sir Stephen Timms, 27 Jan 2025

The Cost of Living Payments were intended to relieve the immediate financial pressures caused by the rapid rise in cost of living. There are no plans to reintroduce these payments.