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<p>Children and young adults with a long-term health condition or disability can be
entitled to receive up to £156.90 a week, tax free, from Disability Living Allowance
(DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP). DLA and PIP are uprated annually in
line with inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The government understands the pressures people
are facing with the cost of living and has taken further decisive action to support
people with their energy bills. The new “Energy Price Guarantee” will mean a typical
UK household will now pay up to an average £2,500 a year on their energy bill for
the next two years from 1 October, saving the average household in Great Britain at
least £1,000 a year based on current energy prices from October. This is in addition
to the over £37bn of cost of living support announced earlier this year which includes
the £400 non-repayable discount to eligible households provided through the Energy
Bills Support Scheme.</p><p /><p>The £37 billion Cost of Living package includes UK-wide
support to help disabled people with the particular extra costs they are facing, with
6 million people who receive non-means-tested extra-costs disability benefits, including
DLA and PIP, due to receive a one-off Disability Cost of Living Payment of £150 before
the beginning of October. Households with more than one disabled child will receive
a Disability Cost of Living Payment for each eligible child. In addition, households
where someone is in receipt of a means-tested benefit will be eligible for up to an
additional £650 in Cost of Living Payments.</p>
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