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Campaign will encourage coronavirus self-isolation support
Updated: 03/02/2021, 6:07 pm
MSPs debated further support for people who have to self-isolate (Jacob King/PA)
A new campaign will encourage those who have to self-isolate due to coronavirus to take up support offered to them, a minister has said.
Shirley-Anne Sommerville, the Social Security Secretary, said fresh material would make it “even more explicit” that help is available for those who needed it.
She spoke as Holyrood debated a Scottish Green party motion calling for the £500 self-isolation support grant to be made universal. It is currently only available to those on low incomes.
Ms Sommerville said making the grant universal would cost around £700 million a year, which could be better spent elsewhere.