New support for Scottish benefits applications rolling out
PEOPLE applying for devolved Scottish benefits can now access direct support from an adviser through a new service now available across the country.
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PEOPLE applying for devolved Scottish benefits can now access direct support from an adviser through a new service now available across the country.
The party now has a small voice inside the Scottish government rather than a big one in opposition.
The party now has a small voice inside the Scottish government rather than a big one in opposition.
Residents in Dundee and Perth and Kinross are the first to access new face-to-face support for Scottish benefits applications.
Ministers urged to increase child payment to £20 a week ‘as soon as possible’ 14/07/2021, 12:05 am Ministers are being urged to increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 a week as soon as possible (Jane Barlow/PA) Holyrood ministers are being urged to meet their pledge to double the payment made to needy parents as soon as possible. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation think tank made the call at the same time as it urged the UK Government to “do the right thing” and commit to keeping the £20 uplift to Universal Credit. Universal Credit payments were increased in the wake of the Covid...