Poverty charities demand new Scottish Child Payment is doubled to £20 a week
Updated: January 21, 2021, 3:43 pm
A coalition of charities has called for the Scottish Child Payment to be increased (Danny Lawson/PA)
The new Scottish Child Payment should be doubled to try and stem a “rising tide of child poverty”, according to a coalition of charities.
The £10 per week payment for eligible families is being introduced from next month as part of the Scottish Government’s efforts to tackle child poverty.
Parents and carers who receive other welfare support such as Universal Credit or unemployment benefits are able to apply for the payment for each child under the age of six, with the benefit being rolled out for all qualifying under-16s by 2022.
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Call to double the new Scottish Child Payment to £20 a week The new Scottish Child Payment should be doubled to £20 a week to combat the rising level of poverty, campaigners have said. The payment is due to be paid to the first families next month but the End Child Poverty coalition says it is not enough to meet targets to take children out of poverty. The payment will start with families who have children under the age of six, before it is extended to others. If the cash was to be doubled, they say, it would help lift another 20,000 children in Scotland out of poverty.