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Scottish Parliamentary Elections - 7 May 2026

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Benefits and financial support

  • Best Start Grant - school age payment
  • Child Benefit
  • Child Maintenance
  • Child Winter Heating Payment
  • Dental treatment, vouchers for glasses, wigs and fabric supports are free.
  • Free Dental Treatment
  • Guardians Allowance
  • Job Start Payment
  • Kinship Care Allowance
  • Money Worries App-NHS
  • NHS Minor Ailment Service
  • School clothing & footwear grant
  • Statutory Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay
  • Tax free childcare-If you cannot get universal credit(going back to work)
  • Under 22s Bus Pass
  • Universal Credit(childcare element)-Going back to work
  • Universal Credit(including child element)
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