{"id":1640,"date":"2020-05-19T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edinburghfoodproject.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1640"},"modified":"2020-10-02T13:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:11:40","slug":"1640","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/edinburghfoodproject.org\/news\/1640\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Start Food Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Best start food payments<\/h1>\n\n<p>19th May 2020<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social has-colors\" style=\" \"><ul><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/edinburghfoodproject.org\/news\/1640\/&#038;title=Best%20Start%20Food%20Payments\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-block-coblocks-social__button wp-block-coblocks-social__button--facebook     has-padding\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" style=\"border-radius: 40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__icon\" style=\"\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__text\" style=\"\">Share on Facebook<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li><li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Best%20Start%20Food%20Payments&#038;url=https:\/\/edinburghfoodproject.org\/news\/1640\/\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-block-coblocks-social__button wp-block-coblocks-social__button--twitter     has-padding\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" style=\"border-radius: 40px;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__icon\" style=\"\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-social__text\" style=\"\">Share on Twitter<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Healthy Start Food Vouchers are being replaced with Best Start Food Payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be a move from paper vouchers to a MasterCard debit card that can&nbsp;be used to buy nutritious food from pregnancy until your child is three years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Families will be credited every four weeks per child; \u00a317 during pregnancy, \u00a334 in the child\u2019s first year and \u00a317 between the child\u2019s first and third birthdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do women need to sign up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Confirmation of Baby Box OR<\/li><li>MATB1 form<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Where can women sign up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>online<\/li><li>on the phone via post<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best start food payments 19th May 2020 Healthy Start Food Vouchers are being replaced with Best Start Food Payments. This will be a move from paper vouchers to a MasterCard debit card that can&nbsp;be used to buy nutritious food from pregnancy until your child is three years old. Families will be credited every four weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-1640","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Best Start Food Payments - Edinburgh Food Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/edinburghfoodproject.org\/news\/1640\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Start Food Payments - Edinburgh Food Project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Best start food payments 19th May 2020 Healthy Start Food Vouchers are being replaced with Best Start Food Payments. 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