Families with school-age children, lower-paid council employees and residents in extreme financial hardship in one part of Wales are set to be given additional help with the cost of living thanks to a £3m investment. Rhondda Cynon Taf council has laid out the measures it plans to introduce as part of a £2.89m extra local scheme.
A report for cabinet on Tuesday, September 6, highlights that £1.65m will go towards payments to around 22,000 families with one child or more of compulsory school age. A payment of £75 will be made per family rather than per child, and families of a home educated child or children will be eligible, as will families of a child or children that attend a school outside of Rhondda Cynon Taf but live in the county borough.
Compulsory school age will be as at the start of the school term beginning September 2022 and a child begins to be of compulsory school age the term following their fifth birthday. The report added that if a family has one or more children born between September 1, 2006 (age 16 as at August 31, 2023) and August 31, 2017 (age 5 as at, 31 August 2022) and they live in RCT then they will be eligible for a family payment.
