You won’t hear this – ‘SNP help families with cost of living’

Nowhere in Scottish media:

Over 43,000 automatic payments to help families with cost of living.

More than 43,000 payments have been paid automatically to help parents and carers with the cost of living and starting school, latest official figures show.

The introduction of automatic payments means that tens of thousands of people getting Scottish Child Payment have been awarded Best Start Grant Early Learning and School Age Payments without the need to apply separately.

For each of the two benefits, people are awarded one-off payments of £294.70 per child to help with costs like clothes, toys and school trips.

Some parents and carers don’t get Scottish Child Payment but could still qualify for the two grants and they have been urged to apply.

Over 43,000 automatic payments to help families with cost of living – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

10 thoughts on “You won’t hear this – ‘SNP help families with cost of living’”

  1. FMQ’s today was just the usual bouts of baf tempered unionist crap – managing to trot out their SG bad because of the Michael Matheson debacle, slotting in how bad the SNHS is – a sure sign that something worse is looming south of the border.

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    1. Interestingly the BBC stooge when discussing FM’s Q’s with the carefully selected journalists did not mention the newspapers they were from !! perhaps just an oversight today but would not put it past them to ‘protect’ their journalistic ‘Unionist’ identities.

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  2. “You won’t hear this – ‘SNP help families with cost of living’”

    Yes but what you will read about and also hear about is how the opposition parties state time and time again that the SNP/Scottish government are failing poorer families in Scotland….THAT you WILL be made to listen to and read about in the news “where we (supposedly) are” but actually tis news that is controlled and dictated by others who are based elsewhere….and whose main focus and target is to maintain their UK……poor people be damned …..or so it seems !…..

    Tis also know as poorer people being used as political pawns in the game being played by all of the opposition parties and too their client media…..which falls under the umbrella that is often referred to as ‘Playing Politics’ (an area Dame Jackie Baillie excels in as do many others within New New Labour both IN Scotland and outwith Scotland….though their political colleagues in other UK parties, HQ and branch offices, also indulge in this shoddy behaviour too)……..all done to promote their respective party’s at HQ obvs for them to gain control/power at WM….and also very very very much done on behalf of their so called , but not really , supposed (non) Union.

    NMRN

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  3. The news is getting out. Even the BBC cannot hide it. Less people watching it. QT. People support bus passes, child payment, 2% increase for a few in tax to help stop child poverty. People declaring support for paying it. Prescription. Less Uni fees.

    Only one Tory on a rant. The difference the Scottish Gov make compared to Westminster wasteful, poor bad policies is plain to see.

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    1. The Broontosaurus has a piece about child poverty in Guardian today; no mention of the Scottish child payment, despite waffling at length about how to tackle “grinding child poverty in Britain“.

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      1. The only mention of Scotland was to cite, with approval, a project he is involved with in Kirkcaldy. This scheme does, indeed, provide much needed assistance to people in the area and is to be commended for that. Its success depends on the involvement of big companies like Amazon, which has a large plant in the area. And this is why the project does little or nothing to enable people to have agency and to change the Thatcherite economic hegemony which has brought an increasing proportion of the population into poverty. It provides immediate assistance (good), but does not change the economic and political system (bad).

        The Bodger opens by describing accurately what the welfare state was intended to do, and specifically condemns the ‘2 child benefit cap’ (however, no mention of Starmer’s intention to retain it), but, almost certainly wilfully, makes no mention of the actions of the Scottish Government specifically overriding this malign policy in Scotland. Child poverty in Scotland is high, but significantly lower than the levels in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

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  5. I’ve just posted on my TL a video called The Witch Hunt. It covers the covid inquiry and it doesn’t miss the BBC or Westminster. I was open mouthed watching it.

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