Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 25518
Cost of Living Payments
Tabled: 21 January 2025
Answered: 27 January 2025
Question
Clive Jones
Liberal Democrat — Wokingham
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
Sir Stephen TimmsThe 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.