Margaret Mullane, Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, has welcomed the Government decision to extend the Household Support Fund to 31 March 2025. £421 million is being provided across England to enable councils to offer essential help to the most vulnerable through winter.
The statement released by the Government announced the decision to extend the support to struggling households to help meet the cost of essentials such as food and energy in the immediate short-term. The Household Support Fund is intended to cover a wide range of low-income people in need, including households with children, pensioners and disabled people.
Margaret said “This is a positive step that will help relieve pressure on hard pressed and vulnerable households.
Barking and Dagenham Council will receive £2.162 million and Havering £1.65 million. This is in addition to Discretionary Housing Payment support of £728,000 and £465,000 respectively to assist families with housing costs hit by the benefit cap or to cover rent deposits. Councils have the ties and the local knowledge to determine how to best support those in their area.”
Margaret went on to say “Whilst these are necessary measures for the short term, in the longer-term, we are determined to prevent such hardship and crisis from happening in the first place. To achieve this, I want to see delivery on commitments to create more good jobs through our modern industrial strategy and local growth plans; to make work pay through our New Deal for Working People and our plan to ensure more people can get work and get on in work through our Get Britain Working White Paper to be published later in the Autumn.”
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