Our Child Benefit plan would help half a million families

8th April 2017

Labour’s plans to boost child benefit would help over half a millions Scottish families and nearly 1 million kids.

We want to see child benefit increased by £240 by 2020.

This move will lift thousands of children out of poverty and put money back into the pockets of working class families.

You can find out how many families in your local area would be better off here.

We aren’t the only people who want to see this happen. So do the Child Poverty Action Group.

We want to see this plan in the Child Poverty Bill, which Holyrood will debate later this year.

Earlier this week new figures revealed that working poverty in Scotland is at its highest point since the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999.

Scotland has huge new powers over social security. We can radically reshape our country to make it fairer.

Rather than focusing on dividing Scotland again with another referendum, SNP ministers should be working with Labour to put money back into the pockets of working class families and lifting children out of poverty. 

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