{"id":1298,"date":"2026-02-06T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:30:03","slug":"five-family-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2026\/02\/06\/five-family-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Family Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Scotland has 5 family payments to help balance family costs if you get Universal Credit or other qualifying benefits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Start Grant: three payments at key stages of your child&#8217;s early years<\/li>\n<li>Best Start Foods: a pre-paid card topped up with money to spend on healthy food while you are pregnant or have a young child<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Child Payment: over \u00a3100 every four weeks until your child turns 16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out more please click the link below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov.scot\/5-family-payments-resources\">https:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov.scot\/5-family-payments-resources<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Scotland has 5 family payments to help balance family costs if you get Universal Credit or other qualifying benefits. Best Start Grant: three payments at key stages of your child&#8217;s early years Best Start Foods: a pre-paid card topped up with money to spend on healthy food while you are pregnant or have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/2026\/02\/06\/five-family-payments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Five Family Payments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,58],"tags":[264,270,274],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-support-advice","category-information-support-in-our-area","tag-benefits","tag-financial-support","tag-universal-credit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ed\/colquhounparkearlyyearscentre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}