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Scottish Government announces payment increase this month to help boost family incomes

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Best Start Foods payments this month. The payment supports low-income families to help them buy healthy food for children under the age of three, and forms part of the Scottish Government’s national mission of eradicating child poverty.

Best Start Foods is part of a package of five family payments administered by Social Security Scotland. It is made every four weeks on a pre-paid card to buy healthy food including eggs, milk, fruit, vegetables and pulses.

The payment is increasing from £17 to £18 during pregnancy and for any children between one and three-years-old. It will also rise to £36 from £34 for children under the age of one.

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