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Debt advisers struggling to cope with demand due to cost of living, MSPs told

Debt advisers are at risk of burnout as an overwhelming number of people seek help to pay rent and feed their families, MSPs have been told. The Social Justice and Social Security Committee heard pleas from advisers across Scotland for more support ...

28 Apr 2022 at 13:25

Scotland

Income limits for child food benefit to be scrapped, says minister

Income limits on a benefit designed to ensure children in poverty can access healthy foods will be scrapped by the end of 2023-24, a minister has said. The Best Start Foods benefit provides pre-paid cards to pregnant women and for the first three ...

11 May 2022 at 01:25

Scotland

Questions must be teased out over drug consumption rooms, says UK minister

Questions need to be “teased out” for drug consumption rooms to be opened in Scotland, a UK Government minister has said. Policing minister Kit Malthouse was appearing in front of a special joint committee on drug deaths on Tuesday, where he ...

01 Feb 2022 at 18:55

Scotland

Debt crisis arising as households navigate cost-of-living crisis – report

A growing debt crisis is arising as sharp rises in energy and food bills are causing a significant fall in real incomes for Scottish households, a new report has warned. The publication, from Holyrood’s Social Justice and Social Security ...

02 Jul 2022 at 01:01

Scotland

Benefit applicants will not be subject to ‘degrading functional examinations’

Scots eligible for disability benefit will not be subject to “degrading functional examinations”, a minister has pledged, as applications for the new payment open on Monday. The Adult Disability Payment replaces the Personal ...

29 Aug 2022 at 01:01

Millions of world’s poorest missing out on social security help – UN

Millions of the poorest and most marginalised people in the world are missing out on help from social security systems set up to protect them, a UN report warns. This includes an estimated 280,000 to 390,000 people in the ...

24 Jun 2022 at 10:00

Scotland

Latest stage in Scottish Government benefits rollout gets under way

People living in three council areas have been invited to apply for a flagship new benefit as the Scottish Government rollout continues. Residents of Angus, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire can now apply for the ...

20 Jun 2022 at 01:01

Scotland

Government ‘abandoning’ unpaid carers, says Scottish Labour

The increase in the six-monthly allowances paid to unwaged carers will not be permanent, Labour has claimed. From December the six-monthly allowances doubled, from £231.40 to £462.80. MSPs unanimously backed the ...

05 Jan 2022 at 01:25

Scotland

Social care in crisis now, MSPs warned

Social care in Scotland is in crisis now and there is no reason why changes cannot be made ahead of the formation of a national care service, a union organiser has said. The Scottish Government has tabled a ...

10 Nov 2022 at 17:17

Scotland

Devolved benefits must keep pace with inflation, say MSPs

A Holyrood committee has called on the Scottish Government to increase benefits in line with inflation in a report. The Social Justice and Social Security Committee published its pre-budget report on ...

08 Nov 2022 at 01:01

Scotland

Social Security Scotland boss warns of ‘difficult’ year for many

Scotland’s devolved benefits agency has made payments totalling more than £160 million last year, though its boss has warned that the next 12 months will be “difficult for many of us”. David Wallace,...

07 Nov 2022 at 15:38

Scotland

Automatic benefit payments to begin this week

Eligible families will begin to receive automatic payment of certain benefits from this week, following the expansion of the Scottish Child Payment. Those who also qualify for the Best Start early ...

30 Nov 2022 at 10:56

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