Sure Start Maternity Grant
Welfare payment in the UK
Sure Start Maternity Grant is a welfare payment in the United Kingdom. It is a one-off payment of £500 to help with the costs of having a child and it is available to those in receipt of certain benefits.[1] In Scotland, Sure Start Maternity Grant has been replaced by Best Start Grant, a new package of benefits delivered by Social Security Scotland.[2]
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Social Fund in the United Kingdom
- Cold weather payment
- Funeral payment
- Sure Start Maternity Grant
- Winter Fuel Payment
- Community care grant
- Crisis loan
- Budgeting loan
- Budgeting advance
- Local welfare assistance scheme
- Short term benefit advance
- Rosalind Mackworth (1987–1995)
- John Scampion (1995–2000)
- Sir Richard Tilt (2000–2009)
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