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A financial advisory service supported by the Scottish government has helped thousands of people around the country manage their money more effectively and save a collective total of some £6 million.

The Scottish economy could be severely impacted over a period of years if the UK were to leave the EU without reaching a deal on the terms of exit.

The number of people officially regarded as being unemployed across Scotland increased during the three months between April and June this year.

The Scottish government’s welfare fund paid out £10.4 million last year to people who found themselves in acute financial difficulty over the course of the last financial year.

The amounts of money being spent each month by parents across Scotland has increased by as much as 28 per cent over the course of just the last three years.

The number of people entering some form of personal insolvency across Scotland increased by as much as 20.6 per cent between last year and this year.

Fraudsters have pocketed tens and thousands of pounds in Universal Credit after scamming claimants, leaving them in arrears with the Department of Work & Pensions and stealing from the public pot of taxpayers’ money.

The costs of having children looked after during the summer holidays is adding significantly to the financial headaches of parents across the UK.

Campaign groups and charities have called for the UK government to scrap its policy of withholding certain benefit amounts from families with more than two children.

As many as four in 10 people who are entitled to claim pension credits are not doing so, primarily because they don’t realise that they could be.

First minister Nicola Sturgeon is being urged to introduce a planned income supplement for low income families sooner than is currently intended.

A sizable proportion of Scots who are in work have had to go without food at some point over the last year due to a lack of cash as they await their next payday.