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Festive service changes

There will be changes to some services over the festive period including phone lines, waste collections, recycling centres and contact centres

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  • Child Benefit
  • Child Disability Payment
  • Child Maintenance
  • Child Winter Heating Payment
  • Dental treatment, vouchers for glasses, wigs and fabric supports are free.
  • Employment Support Allowance (ESA)
  • Free Dental Treatment
  • Guardians Allowance
  • Health Visitors
  • Kinship Care Allowance
  • Maternity Allowance (MA)
  • Money Worries App-NHS
  • Neonatal Care and Pay
  • NHS Minor Ailment Service
  • Play@home
  • Scottish Child Payment
  • Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP)
  • Statutory Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay
  • Statutory paternity pay (SPP) for fathers/partners
  • Statutory Shared Parental Pay
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