The SNP has repeatedly argued that the UK’s two-child benefit cap is inhumane and has refused to place any limit on the numbers eligible for benefits. But a senior Tory MSP accused SNP ministers ...

Scotland's benefits bill could soar by £700million under SNP plans to scrap the two-child cap - with fears ‘benefits tourists’ will relocate to get bigger handouts. The eye-watering cost was ...

The SNP Scottish Government published a Funeral Costs Plan ... Payment – providing an average of £1,500 towards funeral costs for people on certain benefits. Pensions are fully reserved to Westminster ...

Tory leader Russell Findlay will call for the SNP to drop its "bone-headed ideological opposition" to nuclear energy ...

SNP ministers have warned the UK government’s cut to disability benefits will have a knock-on impact on Holyrood’s finances by the end of the decade. The Scottish Government will also need to ...

The SNP is offering hope and delivering for the people of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse whilst Labour offers cuts and ...

THE Scottish Government has opened nationwide applications for a new benefit payment. The national rollout of the Pension Age Disability Payment, which replaces the UK Government’s Attendance ...

Plans to scrap the two child benefit cap in Scotland could be at risk after an SNP Cabinet Secretary said Westminster legislation is required. Shirley-Anne Somerville told Labour counterpart Liz ...