Millions will receive £324 cost-of-living payment in November.
The £650 grant is the largest part of a £1,200 government support package for vulnerable households designed to help with rising prices, and specifically soaring energy bills. But there are no rules on what it must be spent on.
Energy prices rocketed for millions of households on 1 October, but the government stepped in to put a cap on the cost per unit.
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