Ministers urged to expand cost of living support as MPs find Britons ‘slipping through net’

Payments designed to help people cope insufficient to meet scale of problem, says committee

Ministers have come under further pressure to expand the financial support for Britons struggling with the cost of living crisis, after a committee of MPs found some had slipped through the safety net".

The cross-party work and pensions committee said that support payments designed to help people cope with soaring household bills had proved insufficient to meet the scale of the problem and offered only a short-term reprieve" for many.