Dear Parents & Carers,
Please find important information below from Kimberley Cameron, our Financial Inclusion Officer. Kimberley can be contacted confidentially via telephone or email, details below.
Kimberley Cameron
Tel: 07407112089
Email: kimberley.cameron@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
Clothing Grant application deadline
Low-income families, including those in work, can get free school meals, milk and a school clothing grant to help towards buying school clothes for their children when receiving certain qualifying benefits (or meet an Immigration and Asylum criteria)
Clothing Grant
Clothing Grant applications for the current academic year 2022/23 need to be made by Friday 28th April 2023.
The applications for the next academic year 2023/24 will open on Monday 1st May 2023; the processing of these applications will not start until June.
Free School Meals
If your child qualifies for free school meals then they would be entitled to receive a two course meal worth £2.15 per day.
For the current year 2022/23 you can make an application up until the end of this term.
The applications for the next academic year 2023/24 will open on Monday1st May 2023. You need to apply each year, as the award is not continuous.
Check if you qualify and to apply online–
Clothing grants and free school meals · East Ayrshire Council (east-ayrshire.gov.uk)
Cost of Living – Extra Payments Available
Including those in work, on a low income and entitled to certain benefits or tax credits
You may be entitled to up to 3 Cost of Living Payments of £301, £300 and £299, if you get any of the following benefits or tax credits on certain dates:
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Income Support
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit
- Child Tax Credit
- Working Tax Credit
The £301 paid
Between 25 April 2023 and 17 May 2023 for most people on DWP benefits
Between 2 and 9 May 2023 for most people on tax credits and no other low income benefits
Then following that-
£300 paid during autumn 2023 for most people
£299 paid during spring 2024 for most people
For further information visit:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cost-of-living-payment#low-income-benefits-and-tax-credits-cost-of-living-payment
