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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots as Potato's daily politics podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by James the Siphon Kate Andrews.

And today, Richie Cunick has unveiled a new package of measures when it comes to the cost of

living crisis. Kate, get a starter. Can you just run a free the main frost of this?

Yeah, so there were some big announcements and there were a lot of them.

The headlines included the chancellors doubling the energy bills discount that he originally

announced in February. That support package is going from £200 to £400 for every household.

And he's also scrapped the loans aspect of that. So the idea is that you would get the discount

off your energy bills this year and then you would pay that back in relatively small installments

about 40 pounds over the next few years each year. He's scrapped that completely and that's

just going to be grand. So nobody's paying that back. And then on top of that, there's some big

one-off direct payments that are going to be made to the most vulnerable. So that's eight

million households in the UK that are on the lowest income. So you have the state supporting

something related to their cost of living. They're getting a one-off payment of £650.

Pensioners who the winter fuel allowance are going to get a one-off three hundred pound payment

and individuals on disability benefits are getting a one hundred and fifty pound one-off payment.

So if you are a recipient of the biggest sums there, you're looking at additional £1,200

given to you this year to help deal with inflation and price hikes, which is basically offsetting

the energy price hikes that we are expecting to see as the price cap lifts. These are huge sums

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