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Winter Fuel Payment Up until now, all pensioners have been eligible for the Winter Fuel Payment scheme. From this year (2024), pensioners will need to receive pension credit or other […]

Housing Access & Support https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/british-gas-energy-trust-makes-debt-grants-of-up-to-ps1700-available The Individual and Families Fund is open to credit and pre-payment meter customers. You do not need to be a British Gas customer to apply for this fund –

If Social Security Scotland takes longer than 56 calendar days to complete a re-determination, you can appeal directly to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland’s Social Security Chamber.  Here’s what happens

Funded by the Scottish government, MATRICS (Money Advice Training, Resource, Information and Consultancy Service) is a partnership between Money Advice Scotland (MAS) and Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) The law covered

August 2024 This paper argues that over the period 2017-24, Scottish Government strategy and plans directed to reducing child poverty narrowed in focus, with cash interventions prioritised as the core

29 August 2024 This is our sixth annual Living Standards Outlook. It provides an assessment of incomes, poverty and inequality as things stand in 2024-25, and projections up to 2029-30

21 August 2024 Fixing the foundations – the need for better targeted support for energy consumers  1.53 MB Energy affordability no longer dominates headlines as it did when prices were at

In this long-read, Independent Age’s Senior Policy Officer Tatiana Sherwood explores what it’s like to claim financial support past State Pension age, and the devastating impact if people are not

You need to move to Universal Credit if you get a Migration Notice letter and you’re State Pension age, as tax credits are ending soon. Contents

If you’re in a couple where one of you is State Pension age, and you get a Migration Notice, you both need to move to Universal Credit as your benefits