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Raising the value of benefits would have been preferable to sending out a string of lump sum cost of living payments to households, according to a leading UK economics thinktank which has dubbed the sporadic cash boosts an “ineffective sticking plaster”.

Cost of living payments are ‘ineffective sticking plaster’, warns IFS

Nearly 2,700 warm banks were open across the country as of December 1

Warm banks Glasgow: here’s where they are located and opening times

Amy Callaghan MP

East Dunbartonshire MP urges UK government for more help for stroke survivors

An aerial shot of Glasgow (Pic from Shutterstock)

Calls to reintroduce £20 Universal Credit uplift in Glasgow

East Renfrewshire MP Kirsten Oswald

Kirsten Oswald demands halt to withdrawal of lifeline from East Renfrewshire fam...

The increase in payments was only designed to last a year. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Universal Credit payments could be decreased in April 2021 - here's why

Local folk out 
of work doubles 
in four months

East Renfrewshire saw unemployment numbers more than double in a two-month period.

Alarm at rising demand for unemployment benefits in East Renfrewshire

Around 660 people sleep rough in Scotland each night. (Picture by Franco Folini/Flickr)

Report highlights plight of increasing numbers of homeless in Scotland