{"id":1850,"date":"2024-02-26T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2024-02-26T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:20:34","slug":"best-start-foods-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/2024\/02\/26\/best-start-foods-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Start Foods &#8211; update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><u>Changes to Best Start Foods <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>From 26 February 2024, Best Start Foods entitlement is changing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Previously if you claimed certain benefits you also had to be below a certain income level to qualify. <strong>This is changing from 26 February as no income limits will then apply for those in receipt of Tax Credits or Universal Credit<\/strong>. Working Tax Credit will now also be a qualifying benefit for Best Start Foods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">If you previously did not qualify due to the income limit on Tax Credit and Universal Credit but met all other entitlement criteria, you could now apply again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">There are also some changes for young parents that extend entitlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">For further information visit-<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><a style=\"color: #800080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant-best-start-foods\/changes-to-best-start-foods\">Changes to Best Start Foods &#8211; mygov.scot<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>How to claim:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Phone Social Security Scotland on 0800 182 2222<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Online &#8211;<a style=\"color: #800080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant-best-start-foods\/how-to-apply\">How to apply &#8211; mygov.scot<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to Best Start Foods From 26 February 2024, Best Start Foods entitlement is changing. Previously if you claimed certain benefits you also had to be below a certain income level to qualify. This is changing from 26 February as no income limits will then apply for those in receipt of Tax Credits or Universal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/2024\/02\/26\/best-start-foods-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Start Foods &#8211; update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3542,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/uploads\/sites\/4514\/2023\/11\/08110645\/financial-inclusion-team.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/bellsbankpsecc2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}