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That work will start later this year; I would appreciate an update from the minister on what is being done to make people aware of the extra support and how we can get it to them.
Through the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill 2, we propose to make an extra payment of £230.10 to Carer’s Allowance recipients in Scotland this June, on top of Carer’s Allowance Supplement.
If that money were restored—assuming an average of £80 for the roughly 10,000 people who receive free personal and nursing care, which is not the highest rate for attendance allowance—we would have £41.6 million extra to play with. Has the Government undertaken any analysis of the extent to which profit is extracted from the care system?
As I have said to the Parliament on many occasions, things can happen extraordinarily quickly. You are asking for an extra six months for a power that you never used during a pandemic that was, at times, pretty hairy and scary for people—not so much now, thankfully.