New data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) indicates that the charity network helped more than 23,000 families at risk from poverty in the past year.
The Citizens Advice network unlocked £142 million for people across Great Britain in 2022 through unclaimed social security payments, employment entitlements and other benefits in kind - with some clients around £3,700 better off.
The Scottish Government has identified several groups particularly vulnerable to child poverty, including single-parent families, families with an adult or child with a health condition or disability, families with a child under one-year-old, minority ethnic families, larger families (defined as having three or more children), and families where the mother is under-25.
Between August 2022 and July 2023 the CAB network helped 23,094 unique families in this group, an increase from 22,768 the previous year.
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