Salute to service: Call for benefits top-up for armed forces veterans
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Armed forces veterans would be given a welfare top-up and extra help for housing under Scottish Conservative proposals for government.
Party leader Douglas Ross wants to use devolved Holyrood powers to make a new payment for veterans’ households in receipt of Universal Credit, worth £520 a year.
He also called for a renewed help-to-buy scheme to assist veterans into property ownership.
Tories to guarantee veterans access to services and benefits top-up
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