Claim: The Scottish Child Payment is keeping 100,000 children out of poverty.
Fact-check: Child poverty, NHS waiting lists and government spending: BBC Scottish leaders' debate fact checked - Full Fact
Verdict: modelling suggests 60,000 children will be kept out of relative poverty in 2024/25 specifically because of the scottish child payment, with a further 40,000 kept out of relative poverty due to scottish government policies more broadly.
Organisation: Full Fact
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Date published: 2024-06-11T00:00:00