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Lateral with Tom Scott
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The Cost of Living Payment
In 2023, the UK is providing some households with a 900 pounds payment to help with the cost of living. It will arrive as three payments of 301, 300 and 299 pounds respectively. Why? In that order? Yes. Like the first payment is 301 or the firstpayment is 299. I feel like it might have something to do with keeping track of what people have received and what people haven't received - so why wouldn't you do 300, 300, 300? Because then if you were paid, well, I don't know, I guess you could see that you got paid 300 twice or something,. but it's like an ID system built into the payment. That is exactly right
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