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Their parents are no longer entitled to child benefit or tax credits for them if education is interrupted for more than six months, but the young people are not entitled to any benefits in their own right, putting a strain on the household’s income.iiiChild Poverty Action Group, Written Evidence
Scottish Youth Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Commit...
On 20 March 2020, the UK Government announced that they were increasing the basic rate of Working Tax Credit (WTC) from 6 April 2020 as part of their response to covid-19.
Following our evidence session with the DWP, we were pleased to hear of its plans for an awareness campaign for pension credit. Whilst this is welcome, it is our view that campaigns should be continuous to ensure eligible people are made aware of the assistance that is available to them.
Financial risk includes uncertainty about financial flows within a business due to variability in interest rates, access to credit and value of financial assets can lead to financial risk.
If eligibility for disability assistance was made dependent on the individual also receiving universal credit (UC), for example, anyone with too much income or capital to get UC would not be able to qualify for disability assistance.
For example, someone entitled to CA qualifies for additional amounts of reserved means-tested benefits such as pension credit, even if CA is not paid. At present it not clear whether a carer getting the (reserved) state pension would be eligible for payment of carer's assistance or not.
An example of a process might be working for many years as a manual labourer and developing back problems as a result.2CPAG. (2017). Welfare Benfits and Tax Credits Handbook 2017/18. London: CPAG.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to ensure that the additional 500 health visitors committed to in 2014 will be (a) trained and (b) recruited by 2018.