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Single Scots dad says extra £10 a week child payment would stop choice between eating or heating

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food and heating every time his growing five-year-old daughter Mollie-Mae needs new shoes or clothes. It saddens him that he cannot give her everything he knows she deserves as he tries to find work as a trained chef.

But he says an extra £10 a week from the Scottish Child Payment would help the burden on his family finances. It comes as Nicola Sturgeon is urged by 120 leading poverty campaigners to double the “lifeline” Scottish Child Payment to help desperate families.Paul said: “Before Covid it was tight.

We struggled from month to month on Universal Credit. If I had to get Mollie-Mae something like a new pair of shoes I had to cut back on something else like electricity.“Christmas time is the worst time, trying to struggle to get her.

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