The Latest Breaking News from Universal Credit

Around six million people on disability benefits will get £150 in September but around eight million on other benefits such as Universal Credit will get a higher amount of £650

Universal Credit claimants are due to have extra cash hit their bank accounts

Here are the headlines from the Daily Record website today.

Universal Credit claimants will receive the first part of a one-off £650 cost of living payment from next month. The first instalment of £326 will start to hit bank accounts from July 14

The temporary uplift of £20 to Universal Credit during the pandemic was removed in October 2021.

Some GMB union members have described being spat on and suffering homophobic abuse

64 people on Universal Credit (UC) across the area were carrying a sanction in February. That was 4.7 percent of claimants, and up from 82 (three percent) in the same month of 2020, pre-pandemic.

Renters are set to have more power

Schools will be able to spend £2.41 per child on infant meals backdated to April, a rise of 7p - which was branded 'pathetic' by critics

Those on health and disability benefits say they have not been included in the full amount, despite having higher costs than those on other welfare payments

Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford writes in the Mirror on why we desperately need a Labour government in Westminster - a government which really understands the cost of living crisis and is determined to mobilise the help people need