£3.5m paid out in benefits
According to Social Security Scotlandâs annual report, between September 2018 and March 2020, the benefits were delivered to people such as low-income families and unpaid carers
The money was paid out over an 18-month period (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
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Thousands of families with disabled Scots children receive new £200 winter heating payment
The Scottish Government has invested over £2.5 million in the Child Winter Heating Assistance scheme.
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Thousands of families of disabled children in Scotland have received an additional £200 to help heat their homes this winter.
Scots on benefits urged to share experiences of the system in new survey
The survey is a chance for Scottish claimants to begin influencing changes in the benefits system.
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice A survey asking people about their experience with the benefits system has been launched by the Scottish Affairs Committee.
SNP Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing
CONTINUING the best of the best from 21 years of The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards while Covid puts 2020 on hold, the judges come to a category that seems more vital than ever, yet which has often been sorely short of contenders. The Politics in Business award was created shortly after the last great economic crisis to recognise the MPs and MSPs with the best grasp of what business needed to prosper again. The inaugural winners, an SNP and a Labour MP, had little in common politically, but Stewart Hosie and Jim McGovern fought side-by-side for the computer games industry in their Dundee constituencies.
INVERCLYDE S MSP has welcomed the forthcoming roll out of a new raft of benefits that will help those most in need in Inverclyde. The next one to be introduced by Social Security Scotland will be Child Disability Payment, with applications opening next year. This will be followed by the Adult Disability Payment - and those who are on Personal Independent Payment or Disability Living Allowance will be automatically switched to the new system and not have to face another Departmenr for Work and Pensions face-to-face assessment. Mr McMillan said: “The transition from the UK Government benefits to the new Scottish benefits will be stress-free and people in Inverclyde will have peace of mind that they will not have to go through what can be a distressing DWP assessment.