WEBCHAT £900, £300 and £150 cost-of-living payments targeted at most vulnerable

Personally I would prefer the money spent on insulating and future proofing poor housing stocks. It would create good jobs, boost the green economy and address emissions. This energy crisis isn’t going to suddenly go away, we are going to be looking at high prices for several years to come I fear. Throwing money directly at people serves as a sticking plaster and doesn’t address the real problems.

Helen Elizabeth Gwinnutt

Working people pay their rent etc and are probably left with less money than people on benefits, then there’s added costs like fuel to get to work, washing uniform, school meals, and pack lunch for work. Working people ain’t living either, now more money is getting dished out working people will have more tax to pay.

Zoe Edwards

Does nobody realise that most people on Universal Credit actually work? I work full time, run my own business and get a small amount of UC top-up. When I earn enough the benefits stop.

Karla Smele

Everyone is feeling the pinch, not just those on benefits. Why not come out with a plan to help all instead as with rising diesel price etc the workers are worse off. Sharon Birt

Why is it that pensioners come last as we are the ones that have paid taxes for 50 years? Now we need the heating £300 isn’t going to help me over a month so I suppose it’s a way of culling us.

Elaine Owen

Everyone apart from the rich needs help. Working families who are just above the threshold need help too. Having to work and nearly killing yourself just to make sure you are keeping a roof over your kids’ heads, shouldn’t be that way, should be working to enjoy life and spending your hardearned cash on luxuries.

Feel for everyone, times are hard. Doreen Williams

Everyone is struggling. No pay rises. But rising other essentials. Food. Gas. Electric. Fuel. Everything going up but nobody’s pay going up. Struggling on benefits and struggling working. Nobody can cope much longer. Kirsty-Leigh Maund

Those who are on benefits and have every right to claim benefits then absolutely should get it, but my husband and myself both work. I’m only contracted part time but find that I am working 40-50 hours a week to provide for our children, and by the end of the month we have nothing left. Surely we should be entitled to some sort of help, we are not entitled to any kind of benefits because of what we work.

Helen Debnam

Working people may need some help too… just saying.

Matt Jacobs

My partner is self employed not bad money and still struggle – he’s putting £150 a week in car just to get to work and back.

Emma Louise Grundy

I’m thankful for it, there’s a big difference between having £50 left after bills and not enough to pay them.

Rowan Colver

More overtime shifts for me then. Dean Oxey Vaughan

Would be nice if the people working had something for a change, seems we get hit from all angles. I often wonder why I bother to get out of bed at 6am in the morning , no incentive whatsoever!

Dawn Reed