The Each day Document has a proud historical past of campaigning towards the inhumane practices inflicted by Westminster on those that declare advantages.
The title has constantly make clear the worst inequities confronted by a few of the most susceptible folks in society merely for having the audacity to say advantages to which they're entitled.
And it's partly due to that campaigning vigour the Scottish Authorities has taken a wholly completely different strategy with a bespoke social safety system to manage and ship advantages.
Having witnessed the callous and distressing manner persons are handled by Westminster’s DWP - the place the purpose appears to be to refuse as many advantages as doable - our system has been designed and developed with equity, dignity, and respect as its founding mission.
This consists of the important IT system. Keep in mind, if the system stopped working, advantages wouldn't be paid, and the hardship inflicted on claimants could be immeasurable.
When the overriding consideration is continuity of funds, shortcuts are usually not an choice. It is a large and complicated system and improvement has been happening for six years and already delivers 12 distinct advantages.
Worth for cash is available in many varieties. The Scottish Baby Fee gives £20 per week for every baby beneath 6 and can rise to £25 per week and embrace all kids as much as the age of 16 earlier than the top of the yr.
It's exhausting to overstate the worth of this alone in serving to households deal with the cost-of-living disaster.
So, to see some opposition politicians lining as much as garbage the system is deceptive and disappointing. Whereas we anticipate that form of political opportunism from the Tories, Labour and the LibDems actually needs to be higher than this.
And only for context, this week we discovered the divorce invoice for Brexit – which all three opposition events now again - has elevated by one other £5billion to and eye-popping £42.5billion.
The Scottish Authorities is investing to ship a social safety system which is streets forward of the UK system it replaces. And it's constructed by a authorities actually dedicated to tackling and eliminating inequality.
We needs to be proud that Scotland gives for folks in time of want whereas making certain they're handled with dignity, equity and respect.
Go to www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/advantages for additional details about claiming any advantages you might be entitled to
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