Cost of Living Help

This page provides details of where you can find help and advice with the rising cost of living.

Milton Keynes Council Support – November 2023

Milton Keynes Council are pledging £5.5m in cost-of-living help this winter to help residents facing food and energy insecurity, investing in preventative help that will also relieve some of the growing cost-of-living pressure on struggling health and care services such as social care, schools, and the NHS. This support includes:

• Help for children and families. Families of children who are entitled to free school meals will be given £15 of supermarket credit per child for each week of the two-week Christmas holiday and one-week February half term. A children’s activity programme will return between 2nd and 5th January, with food served at each session.
• Funding charities to help their work go further. Providing a financial boost to food charities such as MK Food Bank, and to organisations who give residents financial/debt advice, such as Citizens Advice MK, so they can reach more people.
• Helping people who are falling into rent arrears Financial help and guidance for council tenants and for private renters who are struggling to make end meet.
• Funding warm spaces.  MK’s Parish and Town Councils will be given money to help them run informal activities, from community cafes to social clubs.
• Reducing energy and housing costs A ‘Warmth and Wellbeing Helpline’ continues, offering advice to residents on how to get support with energy costs

See a copy of the 2023/2024 Winter Plan and find other cost of living support