April 2024

The DWP has systems that flag when a carer’s income breaches this threshold, but fails in many cases to act on the information, allowing carers to rack up thousands of

The Improvement Service have hosted and facilitated the money guidance community in Scotland since Spring 2021 but we are now delighted to announce that Money Advice Scotland will be taking

NEXT CLINIC 20th APRIL 2024 Our NR,NE Partnership Facilitators and Citizens Rights Project volunteers; Iona, Laura and Vikki have new dates for their EU Settlement Scheme Application Support Clinics in

Social Security Scotland now delivers 14 benefits that support around 1.2 million people in Scotland. This report synthesises evidence relating to the outcomes associated with social security spending administered by

Full devolution of Discretionary Housing Payments from 1 April. More than £90 million will be allocated to local authorities in 2024-25 to support eligible households at risk of hardship through

All Scottish social security benefits are increasing by 6.7% in April, providing more support for disabled people, unpaid carers and people on low incomes. Scottish Child Payment, which helps the

We are delighted to inform you that because the Polish Association Aberdeen has successfully recruited new staff we can greatly increase the capacity of our psychological services. Our team now

At least 340,000 people who currently claim legacy housing benefit (HB) will be issued with migration notices in 2024 telling them to apply for universal credit (UC) within a 3 month period.

· Unpaid carers forced to reduce their working hours from April 2024.  · Carer Poverty Coalition of 130 organisations is calling on political parties to commit to a full review of financial