Fiona McLeod said disabled, pensioner and single-parent households need access to social fund crisis loans, but the UK government planned to put an annual cap of three loans per household on them. A recent parliamentary question revealed that more than 700,000 loans were approved for people who had already required four or more loans over the past year.
Ms McLeod, MSP for Strath-kelvin and Bearsden, said: “Cutting support for people at a moment of crisis must be the Tories’ cruellest cut yet.”