Sturgeon to pay Scotland's poorest families £20 a week
The Independent|November 30, 2021
A payment aimed at helping low-income families in Scotland will be doubled to £20 a week from next year, first minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
ADAM FORREST
Sturgeon to pay Scotland's poorest families £20 a week

The SNP leader claimed the £10 increase of the Scottish child payment given to the country’s poorest families was the “boldest and most ambitious anti-poverty measure anywhere in the UK”.

While the doubled payments will reach over 100,000 children from April, Ms Sturgeon said she planned extend the child payment to all under-16s by the end of next year – making around 400,000 families eligible.

In a downbeat speech to close her party’s conference, Ms Sturgeon said the campaign for Scottish independence would “resume in earnest” at the end of winter, depending on the prevalence of Covid.

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