More than £200k child poverty payments made in one month
A total of 5475 Scottish Child Payments have been made in South Lanarkshire since the scheme launched.
The new benefit is for low-income families (Image: Lanarkshire Live)
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A benefit to tackle child poverty in South Lanarkshire has paid out over £200,000 since February.
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Payments to start from late February.
More than 77,000 Scottish Child Payment applications have been received since Social Security Scotland started taking applications on 9 November.
The new benefit, which is unique to Scotland, will give qualifying parents and carers £40 every four weeks for each child under six.
The benefit started yesterday, meaning that Social Security Scotland is now able to do final eligibility checks and start issuing decisions.
The first decisions and payments will arrive from later this month.
Payments for those who applied yesterday or earlier have been backdated. Parents and carers have not yet applied and have a child under six are encouraged to apply today to get the maximum amount of money they are entitled to.
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