4th October, 2022.
Yes: it’s officially official.
I can play you this tune: with a certain amount of irony …
Yes, I now have new glasses … and can make a spectacle of myself …
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You’re possibly aware — especially if you’ve seen me mentioning it — that those of us on UK benefits have received what the Government called a Cost Of Living Payment.
A payment totalling some one thousand pounds: £400 is due to come off our electricity bills over October 2022 to March, 2023.
And most of us received the first payment — of £326 — in July.
None of us knew when the next payment would be: beyond being told it would be ‘… in the Autumn.’
That changed, yesterday.
With the announcement that the second payment would arrive in bank accounts: between the 8th and 23rd of November of this year.
Frankly?
I’m glad to get the news of a potential date.
But will be happier when the money turns up.
Quite a lot of it will be going on my meters.
Especially given that the unelected, Truss-led Government is — effectively — planning real term benefits cuts.
Frankly?
Whenever the next general election is, I’m blowed if I’m voting for this prime minister’s party.
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