2. Best Start foods
You can get a payment card to buy certain foods under the Best Start foods scheme if you are pregnant or have a child under three and you get a qualifying benefit, or if you are under 18.
Qualifying benefits are:1The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019, No.193 •universal credit (if you have earnings, they must be under £610 a month);
•income support;
•income-based jobseeker’s allowance;
•income-related employment and support allowance;
•pension credit;
•housing benefit (if you have income under £311 a week);
•child tax credit (if you have income under £16,190);
•working tax credit (if you have income under £7,320 a year).