Bolton Council is to spend £100,000 on ‘warm spaces’ for people to congregate over the winter and distribute £900,000 in supermarket vouchers to the families of 15,000 children. Another £500,000 will be used to part pay energy bills for struggling residents who pay their gas and electric costs via meters and cards.
Details have been published this week of how the council is to spend £2,780,000 allocated to them from central government to support those most in need this winter during what the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) describe as ‘the final stages of economic recovery’. The money is available for Bolton Council to distribute from the period October 1 this year to March 31, 2023.
Government guidance to the council states they should especially consider how they can support households with the cost of energy. The cash can also be used to support households with essential costs related to energy and with wider essential costs.
