{"id":526,"date":"2025-05-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/money-issues-during-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T10:05:23","slug":"money-issues-during-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/money-issues-during-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Rights: Work, Housing and Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your midwife is here to help you access the support you are entitled to. You will find up-to-date information about your parental rights at work (leave and pay), your housing rights and the benefits you may be entitled to on these websites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ready, Steady, Baby – benefits, housing rights and parental leave<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Citizens Advice Scotland – Maternity and Parental Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Five Family Payments – Social Security Scotland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Security Scotland has 5 family payments to help balance family costs if you get Universal Credit, tax credits or other qualifying benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Best Start Foods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pre-paid card topped up with money to spend on healthy food while you are pregnant or have a young child.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Best Start Grant – Pregnancy and Baby Payment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pregnancy and Baby Payment helps with the costs of having a baby. You can apply for this payment during pregnancy to help prepare for your baby’s arrival, or after your baby is born.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Scottish Child Payment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scottish Child Payment helps towards the costs of supporting your family. It’s a weekly payment of \u00a327.15 that you can get for every child you look after who’s under 16 years of age. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Factsheet – Five Family Payments – English<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factsheet about the family benefits Social Security Scotland deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The factsheet is available in additional languages (Ukrainian, Polish, Traditional Chinese, Urdu, Arabic, Russian, Farsi, Romanian, Slovak, Kurdish Sorani, Lithuanian) here: Social Security Scotland – Five family payments resources<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your midwife is here to help you access the support you are entitled to. You will find up-to-date information about your parental rights at work (leave and pay), your housing rights and the benefits you may be entitled to on these websites: Ready, Steady, Baby – benefits, housing rights and parental leave Citizens Advice Scotland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-526","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Your midwife is here to help you access the support you are entitled to. You will find up-to-date information about your parental rights at work (leave and pay), your housing rights and the benefits you may be entitled to on these websites: Ready, Steady, Baby – benefits, housing rights and parental leave Citizens Advice Scotland","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/526\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/maternity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}