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What is child maintenance?
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How is child maintenance paid?
How much child maintenance will I get paid?
How to complain about the Child Maintenance Service
Maintenance when you share the care of your children with their other parent
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My child is turning 16
What happens to Child Benefit when my child is 16+?
What happens to Universal Credit when my child is 16+?
What happens to tax credits when my child is 16+?
What happens to Housing Benefit when my child turns 16+?
What happens to Council Tax when my child turns 16+?
What happens to Child Maintenance when my child is 16+?
Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
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Benefits have changed
What benefits have changed?
Moving to Universal Credit
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Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance and new style Jobseeker’s Allowance
Income-related Employment and Support Allowance and new style Employment and Support Allowance
Housing Benefit
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Benefits from the Scottish Government
Scottish Child Payment
Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scottish Carer Supplement) and Young Carer Grant
Child Disability Payment and Child Winter Heating Payment
Best Start Scotland
Funeral Support Payment
Scottish Welfare Fund
Challenging a decision from Social Security Scotland
Disability, sickness and care benefits
Financial help for children with a disability or long-term illness
Financial help if you are caring for someone with a disability or illness
Financial help if you have a disability or long-term illness
Financial help when you’re not able to work
Time off work when you are a carer
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Universal Credit
How much is Universal Credit?
How do I apply for Universal Credit?
How is Universal Credit paid?
Single parents and Universal Credit
The benefit cap
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What is Universal Credit?
Child Benefit
Benefits based on your National Insurance contributions
Bereavement Support Payment
Mandatory reconsideration and appeals
Your money
Energy and money saving tips
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Legal support for separation and divorce
What financial help can I get after separation?
Where will I live after separating?
Child arrangements after separation
Divorce and Dissolution of a Civil Partnership
What if my ex-partner is abusive?
Your Parenting Plan
Speaking to your children about divorce and separation
Having a baby
Important dates
Money when you are expecting, or have just had, a baby
Best Start Grant, Best Start Foods and the Baby Box
Time off work when pregnant or just had a baby
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Who can make decisions about children?
Your home
Winter Heating Payment
Help with fuel costs
Housing options
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What happens to rented housing after separation
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Scottish Welfare Fund
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Counselling and support
Feeling less lonely and more in touch with others
Understanding and coping with your emotions
Learning at home
Tips to reduce anxiety
Bereavement
Exercise at home
Support if you’re a student
Financial help in higher education
What is higher education?
Money to live on while studying
Help from your college or university
Welfare benefits you may get while studying in higher education
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Further education and training
What is further education?
Getting financial help from your college
Welfare benefits you may get while studying in further education
Other help while studying
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Lone Parent Helpline
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Sadatu’s story
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Anita’s story
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Gayle’s story
Stephen’s story
Suzanne’s story
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The Promise
Impact reports
Living without a lifeline
Welfare Reform
Impact of UK welfare policies in Scotland
CPAG / OPFS Benefit Cap – Impact in Scotland Report
Social Security and In-Work Poverty Inquiry
Child Maintenance Service
Does the UK Child Maintenance Service deliver value for money for children?
Child maintenance: improving enforcement through the commencement of curfew orders
Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill briefing
Single Parent Families, Benefit Conditionality and Wellbeing – Why conditionality is unnecessary, unjust and ineffective
Universal Credit: Single Parents – Gender Issues
Benefit sanctions policy beyond the Oakley Review
Scottish Social Security Benefits & Local Authority Discretionary Payments
Adult Disability Payment
Scottish Child Payment Response
Improving Benefit take up vital in challenge of eradicating child poverty
New Job Grant for young people who face barriers to gaining employment
OPFS submission to the Scottish Government Disability Assistance Consultation
New Job Grant for young people facing barriers to gaining employment
Scottish government consultation on fraud in the social security system
Welfare Foods – consultation on meeting needs of children and families in Scotland
Welfare Foods – consultation on meeting needs of children and families in Scotland
Best Start Grant Draft Regulations
Closure of Glasgow Job Centres
Evidence to Welfare Reform Committee on Welfare Reform and Women
Evidence to the Welfare Reform Committee on Future Social Security Powers
Scottish government analysis of impact of revisions to Council Tax Reduction Scheme
Scottish Welfare Fund Joint Briefing
Single Parent Families and Poverty in Scotland
Single Parent Families Priorities for Change in 2020
Potential impact of Brexit on Single Parents and OPFS
Scottish Government Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan – OPFS Response
Scottish Government Child Poverty Delivery Plans – Single Parents’ Views
OPFS Briefing on the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act
Consultation on a Child Poverty Bill for Scotland
Childcare
Out of School Care in Scotland – Plans for the Future
Scottish Government’s commitment to ELC
Employment, Employability and Education
The Future Delivery of Social Security in Scotland – links with employability support programmes
Colleges and Lifelong Learning Policy Commission
Devolution Of Employability Services
Single Parent Proofing
Participatory One Parent Proofing
Participatory One Parent Proofing Toolkit – Glasgow
One Parent Families Manifesto: 2019 General Election
Making It Work Evaluations
Submission to consultation from Edinburgh College on single parent experiences of Further Education
Single parents with disabled children
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Use devolved tax levers to reduce and prevent poverty
Scottish Campaign on Rights to Social Security (SCORSS)
End Child Poverty
All Kids Count
Cost of School
Fair Child Maintenance
Cost of the School Day – a Participatory Budgeting Project
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Scottish Government Child Poverty Delivery Plans – Single Parents’ Views
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OPFS Survey Results: Survey of Glasgow Single Parents’ Policy Priorities
OPFS Survey Results: Single Parents and Further Education (2015)
OPFS Survey Results: Single Parents and Stigma 2014
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