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In December 2018, Pregnancy and Baby Payment replaced the Sure Start Maternity Grant in Scotland. The change also expanded the benefit and extended the eligibility of the benefit. The payment is £707.25 for a first child and £353.65 for each child thereafter, with no limit on the number of children that can be claimed for.
Sure Start (named Flying Start in Wales, Best Start in Scotland) [1] [2] is a UK Government area-based initiative, announced in 1998 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, applying primarily in England with slightly different versions in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. [3]
Sure Start Maternity Grant is a welfare payment in the United Kingdom. It is a one-off payment of £500 to help with the costs of having a child and it is available to those in receipt of certain benefits. [1] In Scotland, Sure Start Maternity Grant has been replaced by Best Start Grant, a new package of benefits delivered by Social Security ...
Young Carer Grant is a new benefit which provides support to young carers, aged 16 to 18 years old, who care for someone for at least 16 hours a week but do not qualify for Carer's Allowance. Young Carer Grant launched in October 2019 and currently is a yearly payment of £359.65. [26]
In 1885, many domestic policy functions relating to Scotland were brought into the responsibility of the Scottish Office, a department of the Government of the United Kingdom which was headed by a Secretary for Scotland, later the Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1969, a Royal Commission on the Constitution was established to examine the ...
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A bursary is a non-repayable income-assessed grant to help students with living costs. A young student can receive a bursary of up to £1,750. To be eligible to receive a bursary an applicant's family have to have a household income of no more than £33,999. An independent student can receive a bursary of £750.
By the early 1980s the maintenance grant depended on parental income and for many students, about £300, was a minimum grant. There was no legal obligation on parents to make this up to the full grant. The full grant had increased by 1980 from £380 to £1,430 a year and the minimum grant after the increase was about £430.