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Millions of workers due to receive their monthly payslip over the next few days are being urged to check two key details have been changed to ensure they are being paid the correct amount by their employer. The start of the 2024/25 financial year on April 6 means that tax codes may change for some people, especially those on the Blind Person’s Allowance (BPA).

The latest figures from the Scottish Government show that 460,860 people received a Council Tax Reduction (CTR) in October 2023, which means one-in-five households are being supported through the scheme, which is only available to those living north of the border.

The Scottish Government has failed to persuade a rebel local authority to drop its plan to increase council tax.

SNP Finance Secretary Shona Robison will hold showdown talks with the two local authorities that are snubbing her call for a council tax freeze.

Rishi Sunak has hinted at further cuts to national insurance in next week's Spring Budget.

Humza Yousaf has defended his Government's record on housing as it prepares to slash spending on building affordable homes.

Humza Yousaf has been urged to ditch a “devastating” £190million housing cash cut in this week’s Scottish budget amid soaring rents and a homelessness emergency.

Scottish Ministers have coughed up extra funding as a sweetener for local authorities over a bitter council tax freeze row.

Shona Robison has warned local authorities they will not receive money to cover a council tax freeze if they choose to hike rates.

Falkirk Council has not yet told the Scottish Government whether it intends to accept a proposed council freeze - despite a deadline of Friday.

Hundreds of university places for Scots students will be slashed as part of government budget cuts, an SNP minister has admitted.

Scottish Labour has called for a public health levy on booze sales to help fund alcohol and drug treatment services.

Shona Robison jetted off to one of Europe’s most exclusive ski resorts to spend Christmas in a luxury spa hotel just days after raising taxes and axing services in her budget. The under-fire SNP Finance Secretary spent the festivities at the four-star Heliopic Hotel and Spa in the French Alps resort of Chamonix where rooms cost up to £520 a night, the Sunday Mail can reveal. Champagne-sipping Robison flew out in the wake of announcing tax rises and spending cuts which will heap pain on families and businesses already crippled by the cost of living crisis.

Deputy First Minister Shona Robison confirmed any further legal challenge to recent rulings on the controversial gender recognition reform will be scrapped, but pledged to “robustly defend” the Scottish Parliament.

The Scottish Government is in line to freeze the threshold for the higher rate of income tax in the Budget today.

SNP ministers have been called on to protect jobs and public services as the Scottish Government prepares to reveal its annual budget.

The Scottish Government has refused to commit to joining Westminster in banning XL Bully dogs.

Scotland’s Finance Secretary has urged the Chancellor to avoid "ill-timed tax breaks" for wealthy people in the upcoming Autumn Statement.

The First Minister has been accused of misleading Holyrood over when the Government was asked for WhatsApp messages by the UK Covid Inquiry.

Labour has accused SNP ministers of deleting WhatsApp messages relating to the covid pandemic on an "industrial scale".

Humza Yousaf’s government has agreed to hand over 14,000 WhatsApp messages to the UK Covid Inquiry after accusations of a cover up.

Council chiefs have “raided” £7 million for child abuse victims to bump up their latest pay offer to striking workers.

A Tory MSP snapped during First Minister's Questions after SNP members mocked him over Rishi Sunak's climate u-turn.

Senior SNP figures who want veteran MSP Fergus Ewing out of the party could be thwarted over fears that it will damage the SNP vote in the by-election where his late mother won a legendary victory.

SNP MP Joanna Cherry has claimed criticism of her views on “gender identity theory" by unnamed MP colleagues has been “homophobic”.

An SNP minister has apologised after blasting Cabinet colleagues and dismissing the late Queen’s Jubilee as “royalist b*****ks” in a spate of foul mouthed messages. Elena Whitham also criticised her party’s handling of harassment claims against sex pest MP Patrick Grady and mocked opposition MSPs.

Drugs Minister Elena Whitam’s leaked messages are another headache for low polling First Minister Humza Yousaf. His first 100 days in office were a car crash which have left him looking like a First Minister in office but not really in power.

Humza Yousaf’s official residence doesn’t meet the Scottish Government’s own targets for energy efficiency, we can reveal. Ministers have been accused of “hypocrisy” after admitting Bute House in Edinburgh has an energy performance certificate (EPC) rating of D.

The Scottish Government is urging people to check that the tax code on their first payslip after April 6 is correct, as we are now in the new 2023/24 financial year. Changes to income tax have now come into force that are estimated to raise more than half a billion pounds of additional revenue to support vital public services across the country.

The Scottish Government is providing £8.6 million in direct support for people affected by the UK benefit cap as part of its work to tackle child poverty.

A row has broken out over another delay in the transfer of disability benefits to Holyrood. An extension means the UK-wide DWP could end up delivering the disability living allowance and other payments for an extra three years until 2026.

The Scottish Government has been forced to fund a "personal fire service" for a massive apartment complex in Glasgow after developers failed to make improvements in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

The SNP minister who spearheaded gender reforms through Holyrood has demanded the UK Government ditches its opposition to the legislation.

A new housing development aimed at maximising independent living has been officially opened in Livingston.

The UK Government has yet to make a decision on whether it will block controversial gender recognition reforms passed by MSPs last month. A Downing Street spokesman said the issue was still being looked over fears the Holyrood legislation could impact on the UK-wide Equalities Act.

Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison has announced an additional £2.4 million in funding to help people struggling to afford food and other essentials.