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Shona Robison will be replaced as finance secretary at some point this week.

Analysis Whoever becomes the next finance secretary faces unenviable challenge

A customer pays for goods inside a shop. Christmas and New Year bank holidays can change when benefit payments are made in Scotland (Photo: SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images)

When your Christmas and New Year benefits will be paid in Scotland

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street on November 4, 2025. She has hinted that the two-child benefit cap could be scrapped in the 2025 Budget (Photo: WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Budget 2025: Chancellor Reeves hints at extra support for families

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DWP brings forward benefits and pensions for August bank holiday

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5 one-off benefit payments due in 2025 that could net you over £1,500

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Free benefits checker helps1000s find support – it’s open to everyone

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Urgent DWP warning for over-60s as four key benefits set to be axed

68 per cent of parents agree with the charter

Ad Feature Breakfast charter launched as 8 in 10 parents fear poor school meals

Christine Jardine MP in the House of Commons Chamber

Edinburgh MP sacked from frontbenches over rebellion

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Tax rises 'likely' after Keir Starmer's U-turn on disability cuts

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer accused of creating 'two-tier disability system' with U-turn

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Households urged to claim £1,000 in support before local deadlines hit

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Change to Help to Save scheme opens free cash eligibility to millions

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Spring Statement: relief but unconvinced - I’m still reeling from cuts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street to deliver her spring statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025 (Photo: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement: will it put more cash in your pocket?

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, leaves 11, Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025 (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

8 takeaways from Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement - including welfare

Mothers in Edinburgh will go on hunger strike outside Queen Elizabeth House.

'The most awful things' Edinburgh mothers on hunger strike for 5 days

Helen Barnard, director of policy at Trussell

Majority of UK voters agree UK Government is responsible for ensuring disabled p...

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Labour's benefits shake-up - my takeaways as a finance specialist

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Universal Credit: health element changes and above-inflation rise news

Liz Kendall, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, leaves after attending the weekly Cabinet meeting of ministers at 10 Downing Street on March 18, 2025 (Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images)

Government announces major changes to PIP and Universal Credit

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

'This is not austerity': Sarwar defends cutting billions in benefits

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall making a statement on welfare reform in the House of Commons

Explainer Benefits overhaul: How does the welfare crackdown impact Scotland?

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer believes the Government has a “moral responsibility” to reform welfare

SNP calls for '11th-hour U-turn’ by Starmer on ‘shameful’ benefit cuts

The Chancellor faces a difficult battle to rebuild the economy

Spring Statement risks Scottish Budget hit and forcing SNP tax review

Cara Hilton, Senior Policy Manager at Trussell

Disabled people shouldn’t bear the brunt of the challenges our country faces

Jeremy Clarkson was one of many farmers to protest over the changes to inheritance tax

Exclusive Lib Dem MP urges ministers to help farmers with universal credit

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The Scottish government must do more for disabled people, with many being forced...

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Housing Benefit to rise in April – here's how much more you could get

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9 ways you can get council tax support - as millions face huge rises

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Millions receiving Universal Credit can expect increases of £10 soon

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Households across the UK to receive up to £500 in cash support

New Year 2024: all the early DWP and HMRC benefit payment dates

First Minister John Swinney looks on as Finance Secretary Shona Robison presents the government's Budget. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The key battlegrounds for Scottish Budget negotiations

A study of 2,000 adults found 26 per cent of these have received financial help with presents

4 in 10 households have relied on generosity to get through Christmas

Jeremy Clarkson speaks with the media in central London ahead of the farmer's protest over the changes to inheritance tax rules

‘Kill farming’ tax accusation as Starmer quizzed on Clarkson claims

Rachel Reeves poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual Autumn budget to Parliament (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

UK families to get free cash as Household Support Fund is extended

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'I'm scared' - pensioner warns of 'dire' winter as energy costs rise

Conor Forbes, policy director at Advice Direct Scotland

Scottish parents reminded that school meal support continues over half term

Dru Cripps: Druniversal Credit

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Why poll shows more than half of parents cannot afford a summer holiday

Shirley-Anne Somerville

Scotland would reform Universal Credit ‘within five years of independence’

Dozens of emergency food parcels per week were given to Aberdeenshire children during the pandemic

Record number of food parcels handed out in Aberdeenshire this summer

People walk near the Jobcentre in Westminster.

DWP warning over Universal Credit changes coming in October

There are seven big money changes that could affect your wallet coming in September 2023 including Universal Credit and student loans shake-ups.

Cost of living: 7 money changes to be aware of in September 2023

Which? has revealed the cheapest place to get school uniform this year

Cheapest shop to buy school uniform revealed by Which?

Benefit claimants may find their payments arrive earlier than normal this month.

Universal Credit & benefit claimants hit by another payment change

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