Scotland to help families with extra child payments

New benefit, Scottish Child Payment, may lift 30,000 children out of relative poverty by 2024, says SNP

The Scottish government is to boost the incomes of the country’s poorest families by offering them £10 a week for every child in addition to child benefit payments.

Aileen Campbell, the communities secretary, said the new benefit, the Scottish Child Payment, would “tackle child poverty head on” by mitigating many of the worst effects of the UK government’s cuts in social security payments.

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