In the first six months of this year, Best Start Foods and Best Start Grant payments worth £7,271,679 has been made to families across South Lanarkshire
New figures have revealed 17,835 children in South Lanarkshire are being supported by the Best Start Foods and Best Start Grant benefits - with payments of over £7million made to families.
These payments are part of the five key benefits that families may be entitled to from Social Security Scotland – the Best Start Grant is comprised of three one-off payments and Best Start Foods is a prepaid card which can be used to buy healthy foods.Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.
In the first six months of this year, payments worth £7,271,679 has been made to families across South Lanarkshire.Welcoming the figures, Collette Stevenson, MSP for East Kilbride, said: “The Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods payments provide crucial support to families at key stages of their children’s lives, and it is excellent to see so many families across East Kilbride to have benefitted.
“However, the reality is that these families are simultaneously feeling the worst effects of the Tory-made cost of living crisis, and the SNP Scottish Government will do all it can to mitigate Westminster’s incompetence, even with one hand tied behind it’s back.
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