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Scottish Child Payment Doubles

EmiliaBy Emilia5th April 20222 Views4 Mins Read Holyrood
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104,000 children have payment increased to £20 per week.

The flagship family payment – Scottish Child Payment – has now doubled to £20 per week per child. 104,000 children are already benefiting from this increase.

The payment, which is unique to Scotland, was designed to tackle child poverty head on. It is one of five family benefits which provides financial support to low income families with children aged under 6.

– Graeme

The Scottish Government are determined to ensure that no child grows up in poverty anywhere in Scotland. The Scottish Child Payment, along with our Best Start Grant, provides vital support for families on low incomes. Scotland is the only part of the UK where this additional financial support payment for families with young children is available, and the Scottish Child Payment is the most ambitious anti-poverty measure taken across the four nations.

The benefit will be extended at the end of the year to all eligible children under the age of 16 – and at that point also increase further from £20 to £25.

Once extended, it is expected over 400,000 children could be eligible. The newly doubled Scottish Child Payment, together with the three Best Start Grant payments and Best Start Foods, will provide families with more than £10,000 by the time their first child turns 6 and £9,700 for subsequent children. This compares to less than £1,800 for an eligible family’s first child in England and Wales, and less than £1,300 for subsequent children.

🤝 We've introduced the Scottish Child Payment to help lift children out of poverty – which charities called "game-changing".

💷 We have now doubled it to £20 and by the end of 2022, we'll increase it further to £25.

✅ Another SNP manifesto promise – delivered. pic.twitter.com/iKnvy0Q99V

— The SNP (@theSNP) April 4, 2022

– First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

We are using our social security powers to take immediate steps to put cash in the pockets of families by doubling the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per week per child – support not replicated anywhere else in the UK.

This is a key part of our national mission to tackle child poverty. We will further increase this payment to £25 by the end of 2022 – five times the amount campaigners originally asked. This will gives families additional financial support of £1,300 for each eligible child every year. We will back this with investment of around £671 million over the next two years – just part of our package of support for families.

Our Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan will also build on our investment in employment support for parents, through new skills and training opportunities and key worker support to help reduce household costs and drive longer term change.

We are determined to give children the best start and a bright future by putting more money into the pockets of those who need it most. Increasing the Scottish Child Payment will make a real difference to families and help to build a more equal and fairer Scotland for everyone.

Scottish Child Payment is now £80 every 4 weeks.

First Minister @NicolaSturgeon visited @GovanHelp today to hear how the increase will help families in Govan and across Scotland.

Read more: https://t.co/qfG5ypMjRd pic.twitter.com/vD9XDCs9lc

— Social Security Scotland (@SocSecScot) April 4, 2022

– Viv Sawers, Chief Officer at Govan Help

This is a fantastic measure from Scottish Government in tackling Child Poverty in Scotland. The roll out and the uplift in Scottish Child Payment will have an incredible impact on the families across Scotland who need it most and we are delighted to see money going directly to families who we know are struggling to meet their basic cost of living.

Govan has higher than average rates of Child Poverty so this will have a hugely positive impact on the quality of life for families in this local community. We see families struggling daily, they have told us what a difference this has made already with the cost of living increases, we look forward to supporting more families to access this as it rolls out to children up to age 16 later this year. We know parenting is a really hard job, without financial pressures, this funding will go a long way to removing stresses that can impact on healthy family functioning and wellbeing.

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I started working for Graeme’s office after graduating from Abertay University and while I was studying a post graduate at Dundee University. I then went on to work for Graeme full time as his constituency assistant.

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