Rishi Sunak hints another cash package could be coming to help UK households - Birmingham Live

Rishi Sunak hints another cash package could be coming to help UK householdsOn BBC Breakfast today, the Chancellorsaid he was ready and stood there to help if needed again next

year.NewsJames Rodger Content Editor10:22, 27 May 2022Updated 10:23, 27 May 2022Rishi Sunak has hinted ANOTHER cash package could be released to help hard-up Brits amid rising energy bills.

On BBC Breakfast today, the Chancellor said he was ready and stood there to help if needed again next year. Rishi Sunak has hinted ANOTHER cash package could be released to help hard-up

Brits amid rising energy bills. On BBC Breakfast today, the Chancellor said he was ready and stood there to help if needed again next year.

He told the BBC: "We are sitting here in May, we don't know what energy bills will be next April. I think people can judge me by my actions over the past couple of years. I've always tried

to be responsive to the situation that the country and the economy is experiencing, we'll always act like that."

‌ Mr Sunak has said that welfare recipients can "feel relatively confident" that it is "likely" payments will increase next year in line with this year's high inflation. He told BBC

Breakfast: "Looking forward, what is likely to happen is that benefits and pensions next year will go up by this year's much higher inflation levels.

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"That is forecast to be much higher than the inflation that people will actually experience next year. So, for all those people they can look at next year and actually feel relatively

confident about that." He has said second homes receiving a second £400 energy bill grant will only account for a small proportion of payments.

Article continues below He said there are only a couple of "practical" ways of delivering payments, either universally or through the council tax system, which could exclude some deserving

individuals. He told BBC Breakfast: "Second homes account for one or two per cent of the property stock."

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