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Benefits (gov.uk)

Benefits information from the government, including benefits for families, child benefit and housing benefits.

Child Maintenance Options

Impartial information for both parents about child maintenance after divorce and separation. Telephone helpline service is provided.

Citizens Advice Scotland

Network of centres (CABs) all over the country, giving advice on money and rights, including consumer rights, discrimination and employment rights.

Dad.info

Parenting and lifestyle website for dads. Includes a community forum, advice and blogs.

Divorce and separation (Money Advice Service)

Website giving impartial information on your finances if you are going through divorce or separation.

Energy and Money Advice (Energy Action Scotland)

Helplines and information to help you save money on your bills, find grants for getting energy efficiency work done, get the benefits you're entitled to, and deal with debt.

Family Fund: helping disabled children

Provides grants to low income families with severely disabled or seriously ill children, aged 17 years and under.

Financial help in the early years (Child Poverty Action Group Scotland)

This leaflet outlines what financial help may be available from pregnancy to school age. It includes how universal credit (UC) can help you qualify for certain types of help, and other assistance that is available as well as universal credit.

Healthy Start

Free food vouchers for low income families with children under 4 and pregnant women - exchanged for milk, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables and infant formula milk.

How to access benefits and grants (Turn2us)

Turn2us helps people low income families to access welfare benefits, charitable grants and other financial help online, by phone and face to face.

Maternity Action

Information about employment rights, welfare benefit rights and health care rights for parents. They have a helpline.

Maternity and paternity leave (Which?)

Find out about your eligibility and pay for statutory maternity and paternity leave, maternity allowance and shared parental leave.

MoneyHelper

Free, impartial financial advice and information available online, over the phone or face to face. Includes benefits for families, separation and divorce, maternity and paternity rights, paying for childcare, saving money and working families.

Parents under 16 (Citizens Advice Scotland)

Information for parents in Scotland who are aged under 16 on issues such as benefits, tax credits and maintenance.

Relationship problems (Citizens Advice Scotland)

What you need to do if your relationship has broken down and you are splitting up, whether you are living together, married or in a civil partnership.

Scottish Power Hardship Fund

Grant fund to help ScottishPower customers who are struggling to pay their ScottishPower debt due to low household income.

Working Families

Information service for working mothers, fathers and carers on employment rights, tax credits and in-work benefits, maternity and paternity rights, and flexible working options.