Social Security Scotland recently announced that an annual payment designed to help disabled children and young people heat their homes is changing its name.
From this winter, Child Winter Heating Assistance, will become the Child Winter Heating Payment. Scotland’s welfare system said the name change “reflects user testing carried out to support the launch of Winter Heating Payment with people who have lived experience of the benefits system”.
The £235.70 Child Winter Heating Payment is automatically paid to families of children and young people up to the age of 19 who already get qualifying disability benefits.
These include the highest rate of the care component of Child Disability Payment or Disability Living Allowance for Children.
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