Child benefits top-up ‘could lift thousands out of poverty’

https://www.itv.com/news/2018-12-09/child-benefits-top-up-could-lift-thousands-out-of-poverty/

Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has been urged to help hard-up families by increasing child benefit payments by £5 a week as part of his budget.

Children’s charities, academics, trade unions and religious leaders are among those who have banded together to make the plea ahead of Mr Mackay setting out his tax and spending plans for the coming year on Wednesday.

John Dickie, director of the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, said such a move “would be one way of lifting thousands of children out of poverty” as well as “protecting many more from the damage poverty wreaks.While the Scottish Government has pledged to introduce an income supplement by 2022, campaigners said families who are already struggling for cash “can’t afford to wait that long.

While the Scottish Government has pledged to introduce an income supplement by 2022, campaigners said families who are already struggling for cash “can’t afford to wait that long”

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admin quotes the obvious,as those making the rules cant see them......

£5 will not lift people out of poverty,What planet do politicians live on.£5 will buy very little these days.due to the cost of everything.And they give you something in one hand,they take it away with the other hand.

Child Benefit payments are not affected by any tax credits you get, but other benefits like Housing Benefit are.

If you get tax credits, you may get less:

Housing Benefit income Support ,income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance ,income-related Employment and Support Allowance ,Pension Credit

You cannot get tax credits at the same time as claiming Universal Credit or Tax-Free Childcare.

At present, existing tax credit claimants will only be affected if they choose to move to UC, they have a change that ends their tax credits award or they need to make a claim for another legacy benefit (one of the other benefits that UC is replacing).

There are three ways to get onto Universal Credit. The first is through a new claim. ... This comes through being transferred from an existing benefit or tax credit toUniversal Credit via a process known as 'managed migration'. The roll out of managed migration will take place between July 2019 and March 2023

It is proposed that all current recipients will be sent a ‘migration notice’, informing them that all awards of their existing means-tested benefits and/or tax credits are to be terminated and specifying a ‘deadline day’ by which they must make a new claim for Universal Credit.