{"id":544,"date":"2022-11-17T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:36:01","slug":"support-with-costs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/parents-carers\/support-with-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Support with Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Cost of Living Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each grant has different qualifying ages.<\/p>\n<p>If you are claiming the Scottish Child Payment, you will automatically receive, at the appropriate time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best\u00a0\u00a0 Start Grant Early Learning Payment<\/li>\n<li>Best\u00a0\u00a0 Start Grant School Age Payment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are no automatic payments for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Start Grant Pregnancy and Baby Payment<\/li>\n<li>Best Start Foods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You still need to apply for these payments via\u00a0<strong>Social Security Scotland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Free School Meals\/Clothing Grant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You can find out about applying for a school clothing grant and\/or free school meals\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fife.gov.uk\/services\/form-pages\/apply-for-a-school-clothing-grant-andor-free-school-mealsmilk\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Social Security Scotland \u2013 Scottish Child Payment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>This is a weekly payment of \u00a310 that families can get for every child that they look after who is under 6 years of age.\u00a0<span class=\"\">For more information and to apply please click on the following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/scottish-child-payment\">link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Welfare Rights Service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advice from Fife Council on benefits and money advice.\u00a0<span class=\"\">For more information and to apply please click on the following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fife.gov.uk\/kb\/welfare,-benefits-and-money-advice\">link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citizen\u2019s Advice Fife.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can provide advice on financial issues.\u00a0<span class=\"\">For more information and to apply please click on the following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cabfife.org.uk\/index.php\">link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost of Living Support Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods\u00a0 Each grant has different qualifying ages. If you are claiming the Scottish Child Payment, you will automatically receive, at the appropriate time: Best\u00a0\u00a0 Start Grant Early Learning Payment Best\u00a0\u00a0 Start Grant School Age Payment There are no automatic payments for: Best Start Grant Pregnancy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/parents-carers\/support-with-costs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Support with Costs<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21270,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-544","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544\/revisions\/1116"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/lumphinnansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}