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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 [1] In Scotland, Sure Start Maternity Grant has been replaced by Best Start Grant, a new package of benefits delivered by Social Security ...
The National Lottery Community Fund is responsible for distributing 40% of the good cause money raised and typically distributes over £500 million a year to communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as working closely with Government to distribute vital grants and funding from key Government programmes and ...
Logo. Universal Credit is a United Kingdom based social security payment. It is means-tested and is replacing and combining six benefits, for working-age households with a low income: income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), and Income Support; Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Working Tax Credit (WTC); and Housing Benefit.
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The Act limits the total amount of money available to social security claimants. As of 2013 – the year that the cap was first introduced – total benefits paid to a single person could not exceed £350 per week; the maximum available to families (single parents and couples with children) was £500 per week.
Hardship payments in the United Kingdom are welfare payments that may be claimed when a person's social security benefits are sanctioned. Under Universal Credit, hardship payments are recoverable. Under Universal Credit, hardship payments are recoverable.
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.
It is an operationally independent body, set up under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and funded by a levy on authorised financial services firms. The rules of the FSCS are made by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and are contained in its handbook. [2] The FSCS board of directors is appointed by and ultimately accountable to ...