{"id":121,"date":"2025-10-24T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/?page_id=121"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:22:42","slug":"financial-support","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Financial Support and Advice (Government and other institutions)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Financial Support available to families with young children from Social Security Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please find below a message from Social Security Scotland:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thought it may be of interest to the parents\/carers of the children you care for to provide some information on the financial support available to families with young children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Scottish Child Payment (\u00a340 every four weeks for eligible children under six) starts on 15 February and we are encouraging parents to apply now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/scottish-child-payment\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For those eligible for the \u00a3250 Best Start Grant School Age Payment we are reminding parents that the current application window \u2013 for children born between March 1, 2015 and February 29, 2016 \u2013 will close on 28 February even for those who have deferred entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also the Pregnancy and Baby Payment and Early Learning Payment that may also be relevant for to some of your families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant-best-start-foods\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scottish Government Payments:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Early Learning Payment \u00a3250 help for eligible families with a child between 2 and 3\u00bd years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Pregnancy and Baby Payment \u00a3600 for first child or \u00a3300 help for eligible families with cost of pregnancy or having a new child<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Food Payment \u00a317 every four weeks for eligible families during pregnancy and for every child under three to spend on healthy foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out the support you may be eligible for visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/beststart\">http:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/beststart<\/a> or call 0800 182 2222<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scottish Welfare fund<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Scottish Welfare Fund helps families and people in Scotland who are on low incomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scottish Welfare Fund via&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotborders.gov.uk\/benefits-grants\/community-care-grant-crisis-grant\/2\">SBC<\/a> website link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Further help with money problems<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also get general advice for your money problems from (websites links):&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Money Talk Team \u2013 get help to make sure you\u2019re claiming everything you\u2019re entitled to and advice to help you make the most of your money&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Scotland\u2019s Financial Health Service \u2013 find information and advice on debt, managing money, housing, homelessness and ethical lending&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 National Debtline \u2013 get free, confidential and independent debt advice on 0808 808 4000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Citizens Advice Scotland \u2013 visit your nearest bureau to speak to somebody face-to-face, or call 0845 450 0351&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Shelter Scotland \u2013 call the free helpline for housing advice on 0808 800 4444&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7 Money Advice Scotland \u2013 find details of agencies that give independent financial advice<strong>Free School Meals and Clothing Gran<\/strong>t via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotborders.gov.uk\/clothing-meals-transport\/free-school-meals-help-schoolwear\">SBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Support and Advice (Government and other institutions) Financial Support available to families with young children from Social Security Scotland Please find below a message from Social Security Scotland: We thought it may be of interest to the parents\/carers of the children you care for to provide some information on the financial support available to families with young children. The new Scottish Child Payment (\u00a340 every four weeks for eligible<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/financial-support\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9362,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/stowps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}