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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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01 Dec 2025
Chapter 62: Scottish child payment, Best Start grants and Best Start foods
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 10: Scottish social security benefits
Chapter 62: Scottish child payment, Best Start grants and Best Start foods
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Chapter 62: Scottish child payment, Best Start grants and Best Start foods
Key facts
1. Scottish child payment
The amount of Scottish child payment
Change of circumstances
2. Best Start grant
Who can get a pregnancy and baby payment
Who can get an early learning payment
Who can get a school-age payment
The amount of Best Start grant
3. Best Start foods
4. Responsibility for a child
Competing claims
5. Qualifying benefits
6. The rules about your age
7. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
When you do not have to make a claim
Information to support your claim
Scottish child payment
Best Start grant
Best Start foods
The date of your claim
Scottish child payment
Best Start grants
Best Start foods
Getting paid
8. Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
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Means-tested benefits
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CPAG. "Chapter 62: Scottish child payment, Best Start grants and Best Start foods." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed February 13, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266090CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 62: Scottish child payment, Best Start grants and Best Start foods." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed February 13, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266090CITANCHOR.
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Publication date:
March 21, 2025
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February 13, 2026
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