CHARITY bosses are urging the UK Government to release internal analysis on the impact of scrapping the £20 Universal Credit uplift. Peter Kelly, director of the Poverty Alliance, insisted it was clearly in the public interest to know whether this decision will deepen poverty for thousands of people across our country . He has now written to Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey calling on her to sanction the release of this analysis so that the public understand the likely impact of this decision . The uplift was introduced in April last year in the wake of the upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
More than £200k child poverty payments made in one month
A total of 5475 Scottish Child Payments have been made in South Lanarkshire since the scheme launched.
The new benefit is for low-income families (Image: Lanarkshire Live)
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A benefit to tackle child poverty in South Lanarkshire has paid out over £200,000 since February.
A total of 15,540 Scottish Child Payments have been made in the city. The benefit, which is unique to Scotland, is intended to help low-income families with the costs of raising a child. It gives qualifying parents and carers £40 every four weeks for each child under six. A total of 92% of the applications processed have been approved, and payments started in February. Applications were received from people living in all 32 local authorities in Scotland, including 17,330 from Glasgow. By the end of March, 15,540 were made – meaning a total of £590,930 has been paid to applicants from Glasgow. Across Scotland, an estimated 78,775 children have already benefitted from Scottish Child Payment. More than £3.6 million has been paid out overall.
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