Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget statement: easy read summary
The Easy-read version of the Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget Statement
About the Budget
The Scottish Budget is the plan to say how much money the Scottish Government will spend over a year.
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This budget year runs from April 2024 to March 2025.
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The Scottish Budget for this budget year is almost 60 billion pounds.
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Most of this money is being given to public organisations that give services to people living in Scotland.
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The 2 groups of public organisations that are getting most of the money are:
- health care – like hospitals
- local government – like councils
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1 of the biggest problems this year is the cost of living crisis.
The cost of living crisis is the problem of many of the basic things we need to live – like food and heating – being so expensive at the same time.
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The Scottish Government wants this budget to help there be less:
- poverty – this means not having enough money to buy basic things like food and clothes or to pay for heating
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- inequality – this means not having the same chances and choices as other people
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Last year social security got more than 5 billion pounds to pay for things like benefits.
But this year social security will get more than 6 billion pounds.
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Benefits is money given to people to help them pay for the important things they or their family need for day to day life.
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Contact
Email: scottishbudget@gov.scot
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