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The £100 payment will reach about 80% of homes, but 1.4m poor families miss out, and the Resolution Foundation called that "unacceptable". Chancellor John Healey announced it in his first Budget on Wednesday, with the £2.6bn cost covered by a tax on bank profits. Wales will match it for about one million homes, and Scotland plans to copy it.
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