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Government and leading businesses join forces to help households with cost of living

Cost of Living Business Tsar and former Just Eat boss David Buttress agrees deals and discounts with major UK businesses to form part of Help for Household campaign.

Cost of Living Business Tsar and former Just Eat boss David Buttress agrees deals and discounts with major UK businesses to form part of Help for Household campaign.

  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson and David Buttress
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One in four families get first government Cost of Living Payment from today

Almost one in four families across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will get £326 sent directly to them from today, with the second instalment of £324 sent later this year as part of the government’s £37 billion support package.

  • £326 – the first of two cost of living payments – will automatically hit seven million bank accounts between today and 31 July 2022 as
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7 Cheap and Easy Ways to Save Money on School Lunches

It’s been revealed this week that rising food prices have led to beef being removed from school dinner menus in the UK.

The news comes as the cost of living continues to rise which has caused school catering companies to rethink staple ingredients such as meat and potatoes as they are getting too expensive.

Although the government has increased spending to provide free meals...

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Drive to reduce the cost of childcare for parents

Package of measures will increase childcare support for parents, boost the number of childminders and drive take up of childcare offers, to address rising costs The government has today announced ambitious new plans to improve the cost, choice and availability of childcare that will benefit hundreds of thousands of parents across the country.

The UK has some of the highest-quality childcare...

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LOW MILEAGE DRIVERS COULD SAVE OVER £140 BY SWITCHING TO PAY-BY-MILE INSURANCE

  • Monthly switching to By Miles’s pay-by-mile policies has risen by 125% since the start of 2020
  • Usage-based insurance could save the increasing number of low mileage drivers an average of £141 per year, which could help offset the rising cost of living
  • Average cost of a pay-per-mile policy is £585, but this falls to £430 for motorists who drive less than 5,000 miles
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Over 8 million families in the UK getting new cost of living payment from 14 July 2022

Over 8 million households in the UK will get a cash payment from July 2022 to ease cost of living pressures.
  • Over 8 million households will receive the first of two cost of living instalments totalling £650 from 14 July 2022, part of the £1,200 support package this year
  • Initial automatic instalment for means-tested benefit claimants will be £326, with the rest to follow in a
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LEFT IN THE DARK ON ENERGY USE: 20 MILLION HOUSEHOLDS PAY THEIR SUPPLIER MONTHLY BUT LESS THAN HALF GET A BILL EVERY MONTH

  • Seven in ten households — 20 million — pay for their energy monthly[1], but only four in ten (43%) receive a bill every month [2]
  • One in five households (20%) have asked their supplier to change how often they get their bill [3] , but three fifths (60%) say the changes haven’t been made [4]
  • Suppliers who don’t deliver monthly bills are leaving consumers in the dark
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Millions of most vulnerable households will receive £1,200 of help with cost of living

Millions of households across the UK will benefit from a new £15 billion package of targeted government support to help with the rising cost of living, the Chancellor announced today (26 May).
  • Almost all of the eight million most vulnerable households across the UK will receive support of at least £1,200 this year, including a new one-off £650 cost of living payment
  • Universal
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Less than one in five under 6s getting the physical activity they should following the pandemic 

Cost of living crisis may make things worse, as cost is a major barrier to more physical activity – especially for the poorest A survey of 1,000 parents for children’s charity, the Early Intervention Foundation , has found that only 19% of children between the ages of one and five get more than three hours of physical activity a day – meaning most children are getting less than the officially...
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Tripadvisor Travel Index Reveals Brits Will Hang on to Summer Holidays this Year Despite Feeling the Pinch

As temperatures become more balmy this week and the school summer break is just a couple of months away, many will be eager to book a holiday – if they haven’t done so already – but where are the hotspots to head to this summer?

Tripadvisor today released its Summer Travel Index, using a combination of search and sentiment data to reveal what is on the minds of British travellers...

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