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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca McCurdy

Rise in Scottish child payment part of plans to tackle cost emergency – Sturgeon

PA Wire

Approximately 400,000 children will be eligible for an anti-poverty benefit increase from November as Nicola Sturgeon sets out a raft of cost-of-living actions in her Programme for Government.

The Scottish child payment is set to be increased to £25 per eligible child per week from November 14. The benefit will now also be open to all eligible under-16s.

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