questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make it his policy to amend the eligibility criteria for Cost of Living Payments so that people on (a) Housing Benefit and (b) Council Tax Reduction qualify.
answerText: There are currently no plans to amend eligibility criteria for Cost of Living Payments. Housing Benefit is not an income-replacement benefit; it is intended to cover only housing costs. Therefore, Housing Benefit is not a qualifying means-tested benefit f...
heading: Cost of Living Payments: Council Tax Reduction Schemes and Housing Benefit