DWP confirms payment dates for benefits including Universal Credit, PIP and State Pension over Christmas and New Year

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State Pension payment will rise by just £4.40 per week from next year should be reason enough for every elderly Scot to check if they are eligible to claim Attendance Allowance to boost their monthly income. The projected increase is the smallest rise allowed by legislation under the triple lock guarantee and means an annual increase of £228.80 for those on the ‘new’ State Pension, which will rise from £175.20 to £179.60 each week.

Universal Credit in November could cost self-employed claimants hundreds of pounds a month, unless the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP chooses to delay it. The benefit can be claimed by self-employed people who are struggling financially and need help supporting their business.

MPs.The powerful Commons Work and Pensions Committee has recommend first-time claimants should receive a simple grant payment to ensure they can afford basics during the five-week wait for an initial payment.The present system gives advance payments to tide claimants over but these must be repaid, meaning they risk being pushed into debt.The new grant payment, equivalent to three weeks of the standard allowance, would be a simple way to ensure claimants can afford basic living essentials, the

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child poverty in Scotland has been exposed in scandalous new figures showing a rise almost everywhere in the past five years. Only one council area managed to improve - by just less than one percent - while the rest of the country saw young people fall further behind.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Wishaw councillor has hit out at the UK Government as the state pension age was raised above the life expectancy of men living in Craigneuk.Both men and women now have to reach the age of 66 before they are eligible for the state benefit.Independent councillor Angela Feeney took to social media retweeting a Wishaw Press story from 2013 which compared Craigneuk and North Korea to get her point across.The

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significant State Pension rights, a former pensions minister has claimed. Sir Steve Webb, a partner at pensions consultants Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP), said in the late 1990s and early 2000s there were around 4,000 divorces involving women aged over 60 each year in the UK with the annual numbers increasing ever since.

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From today the state pension age in the UK has risen for both men and women.As of October 6, Brits will need to be 66 to be eligible to claim for the benefits.The new changes mean that anyone born after 5 October 1954 will have a state pension age of at least 66 - for some women that is six years after the date they were originally told they could claim.It's the first rise to affect men as well as women as the Government looks to cut costs as people live longer lives.Further rises to 67 and 68

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