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The Scottish Government is providing £8.6 million in direct support for people affected by the UK benefit cap as part of its work to tackle child poverty.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently published guidance on the annual benefits uprating which will see State Pension and most benefits increase by 10.1 per cent from April 10. The benefit cap will also rise in line with inflation, this will see it increase from £20,000 to £22,020 for families and the lower cap for single households without children going up from £13,400 to £14,753.
The additional funding from the Scottish Government will see an estimated 4,000 families - with around 14,000 children - now able to apply for extra financial support through their local council’s Discretionary Housing Payments scheme.
Commenting on the extra support, Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison said: “We are increasing funding to help bridge the gap between what people need in benefits from the UK Government and what they actually receive. Eligible households could be £2,500 better off on average per year as a result.”
Ms Robison explained that the Scottish Government will spend up to £84 million in 2023/24 on Discretionary Housing Payments to also mitigate the UK Government’s bedroom tax and the ongoing freeze to Local Housing Allowance rates.
She added: “Our child poverty targets are ambitious and that is why we are choosing to invest significantly more in social security than the funding we receive from Westminster and helping to mitigate the damaging impact of UK Government welfare cuts.”
John Dickie, Chair of the Child Poverty Action Group, said: “Mitigating the UK benefit cap is absolutely the right thing to do. Support for struggling families shouldn’t have an
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