Monetary assist for households with kids in Wales throughout the price of dwelling disaster

Promoting collaboration with Advicelink Cymru and the Welsh Authorities

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The previous few months have been among the hardest many people have skilled financially, with the price of dwelling disaster impacting folks dramatically.

Nonetheless, assist is out there, with the Welsh Authorities providing a variety of monetary assist schemes. This contains one off value of dwelling funds to individuals who at present obtain advantages, in addition to council tax reductions. 

There’s additionally assist accessible particularly for households in Wales with kids beneath 16, with The Childcare Provide for Wales, Free College Meals, and assist with different college prices. No youngster ought to go with out. Learn on to seek out out what assist you could possibly be entitled to and learn how to entry it.

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The Childcare Provide for Wales

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What’s The Childcare Provide for Wales?

The Childcare Provide for Wales is a Welsh Authorities initiative which implies that most working mother and father of three to 4 12 months olds can declare funds in direction of the price of childcare.

Eligible mother and father in Wales can obtain 30 hours of early training and childcare for 48 weeks of the 12 months. This consists of a minimal of 10 hours of ‘early training’ every week and a most of 20 hours every week of childcare. The precise quantity will depend on how a lot early training your native authority affords.

Tons of of nurseries, youngster minders, Cylch Meithrin, playgroups and crèches throughout Wales are on board with the supply, that means you possibly can select a childcare supplier that meets your loved ones’s wants. You’ll be able to entry English, Welsh or bilingual childcare with the supply.

‘Early training’, or Basis Part Nursery, is out there to all kids in Wales from the time period after their third birthday. All native authorities present a minimal of 10 hours per week early training, both within the native college or in a setting reminiscent of a playgroup, a day nursery or a Cylch Meithrin.

The cash is paid on to the childcare supplier and deducted out of your invoice. Dad and mom don’t obtain any cash straight.

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Who’s entitled to The Childcare Provide for Wales?

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To be eligible for the supply every guardian should:

• Stay in Wales
• Have a baby aged 3 or 4 years previous
• Have a gross earnings of £100,000 or much less per 12 months
• Be employed and earn no less than, on common, the equal to working 16 hours every week on the Nationwide Minimal Wage or Residing Wage

Or be enrolled on both an undergraduate, postgraduate or additional training course that’s no less than 10 weeks in size

You’ll be able to verify if you might be eligible for the Childcare Provide for Wales right here.

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How can I declare the Childcare Provide for Wales?

Eligible kids can entry the Childcare Provide for Wales from the start of the time period following their third birthday till the September following their fourth birthday, after they start full-time training.

All mother and father wishing to obtain Childcare Provide for Wales-funded childcare might want to apply by the brand new nationwide digital service. The net service is bilingual and might be accessed by way of a laptop computer, cell phone or pill. 

When making use of, you have to:

• Your youngster’s start certificates  
• Proof of handle
• Proof of family earnings or enrolment on the next or additional training course

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Additionally, you will must know (and supply proof of):

• your Nationwide Insurance coverage quantity
• your employment handle with postcode
• family associate’s employment handle with postcode
• common weekly earnings for you and your family associate
• gross annual wage for you and your family associate

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One lead guardian wants to finish the applying, even you probably have shared custody of the kid.

In case you are making use of for a number of kids, for instance twins, you possibly can add extra kids to the identical utility. This profit is paid on to the childcare supplier and deducted out of your invoice. Dad and mom don’t obtain any cash straight.

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For extra data and to use, go to the Childcare Provide for Wales web site right here.

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Free College Meals

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What’s the Free College Meals scheme?

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Free college meals can be found to eligible kids – often from decrease earnings households that are in receipt of sure advantages – who attend a maintained college in Wales. This contains youthful kids who attend nursery for full days and sixth kind college pupils.

You could have heard that the Common Major Free College Meals scheme is at present being rolled out throughout Wales. Which means all major college kids in Wales will obtain Free College Meals by 2024, with every native authority implementing the scheme in its faculties. This dedication by the Welsh Authorities is in response to the rising cost-of-living pressures on households in addition to the dedication to deal with youngster poverty and guarantee no youngster goes hungry in class. In case your youngster will not be within the age group that at present receives Common Free College Meals, they could properly nonetheless be eligible for Free College Meals.

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Who’s entitled to Free College Meals?

Your youngster could also be eligible for Free College Meals should you obtain any of the next:

• Revenue Assist
• income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• income-related Employment and Assist Allowance
• assist beneath Half VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• Little one Tax Credit score (so long as you don’t additionally get Working Tax Credit score and your annual earnings is £16,190 or much less earlier than tax)
• the assured factor of Pension Credit score
• Working Tax Credit score run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you cease qualifying for Working Tax Credit score
• Common Credit score – your family earnings have to be lower than £7,400 a 12 months after tax

Pupils who obtain Revenue-related Employment and Assist Allowance, Revenue Assist or Revenue-based Jobseeker’s Allowance in their very own proper may additionally be capable of obtain free college meals.

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Foster mother and father can even declare Free College Meals. Any eligible guardian is ready to declare Free College Meals for his or her youngster. For extra data on eligible mother and father, take a look at this web page.

Free college meal vacation provision will proceed to be accessible to kids from decrease earnings households for the Easter and Whitsun college holidays.

Because the Common Major Free College Meal scheme rolls out, extra data can be supplied by your youngster’s college or native authority on the related time.

No different related advantages can be affected by free college meals changing into common.

Older kids at present in receipt of, or eligible to use for, a Free College Meal can be unaffected by the implementation of the common scheme.

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How can I apply for Free College Meals?

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The native authority the place a learner goes to high school (not the place they dwell) is chargeable for:

• assessing the eligibility
• offering Free College Meals

Extra data, together with learn how to verify eligibility, is accessible right here.

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College Necessities Grant

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What assist can I get for different college prices?

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The College Necessities Grant is out there to assist school-aged kids in households on decrease incomes and who qualify for sure advantages. In case your youngster qualifies for Free College Meals, you might be prone to qualify for the College Necessities Grant.

The College Necessities Grant affords as much as £225 per youngster of obligatory training age to assist in direction of prices for gadgets reminiscent of college uniform, equipment and stationery. A grant of as much as £300 is out there to these kids at present in 12 months 7, to assist with the elevated prices related to beginning secondary college.

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The College Necessities Grant can be utilized to assist with:

• the acquisition of faculty uniform, together with coats and footwear;
• uniform for enrichment actions together with (however not restricted to) Scouts, Guides, martial arts, sports activities, performing arts or dance;
• gear for varsity, reminiscent of college baggage and stationery
• specialist gear the place new curriculum actions start reminiscent of design and know-how
• gear for out of faculty hours journeys reminiscent of outside studying e.g. waterproofs

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Who’s entitled to the College Necessities Grant?

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The College Necessities Grant is out there to eligible households of pupils who’re getting into:

• all 12 months teams from reception to 12 months 6 in a maintained major college
• years 7 to 11 of a maintained secondary college (with an additional allowance for these getting into 12 months 7)
• a particular college, a particular wants useful resource base, or a pupil referral unit, for youngsters aged 4 to fifteen.

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The grant can also be accessible to all sorted kids of obligatory college age primarily based in a maintained college.

Pupils with no recourse to public funds and asylum seekers getting into any 12 months group from reception to 12 months 11 within the 2022 to 2023 college 12 months are entitled to a grant.​

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The guardian or guardian making the applying have to be receiving one of many following:

• Revenue Assist
• Job Seekers Allowance (earnings primarily based)
• Employment Assist Allowance (earnings associated)
• Little one Tax Credit score, with a family earnings of £16,190 or much less
• Pension Credit score (assure factor)
• Common Credit score with internet family earnings of lower than £7,400

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Working Tax Credit score is not a qualifying profit. In case you are in receipt of Working Tax Credit score you’ll not be entitled to the College Necessities Grant, even should you obtain this along with one of many incomes above.  

These receiving Free College Meals attributable to transitional safety will solely be eligible in the event that they meet the factors above.

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How can I declare the College Necessities Grant?

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Households are entitled to assert as soon as per youngster, per college 12 months.

The 2022/23 scheme is now open and can shut on 30 June 2023.

To use for the College Necessities Grant, please contact your native authority. You’ll be able to comply with this hyperlink, enter your postcode, and be directed to the related native authority web site.

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To seek out out extra about what different monetary assist you could possibly be entitled to, chat to Advicelink Cymru in confidence, with out judgment, and free of charge on 0808 250 5700 or go to the Right here To Assist web site right here.

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Cymorth ariannol i deuluoedd â phlant

Cymru yn ystod yr argyfwng costau byw

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Hysbysebu ar y cyd gydag Advicelink Cymru a Llywodraeth Cymru

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Mae’r misoedd diwethaf wedi bod yn rhai o’r anoddaf y mae llawer ohonon ni wedi’u hwynebu yn ariannol, gyda’r argyfwng costau byw yn effeithio’n sylweddol ar bobl.

Fodd bynnag, mae assist ar gael, gyda Llywodraeth Cymru yn cynnig nifer o gynlluniau cymorth ariannol. Mae hynny’n cynnwys taliadau costau byw untro i bobl sy’n cael budd-daliadau ar hyn o bryd, yn ogystal â gostyngiadau yn y dreth gyngor. 

Mae cymorth ar gael yn benodol hefyd ar gyfer teuluoedd yng Nghymru sydd â phlant o dan 16 oed, gyda Chynnig Gofal Plant Cymru, Prydau Ysgol am Ddim a assist gyda chostau ysgol.

Ni ddylai’r un plentyn fynd heb bethau. Darllenwch ymlaen i ddarganfod pa gymorth y gallech chi fod â hawl i’w gael a sut i fanteisio arno.

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Cynnig Gofal Plant Cymru

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Beth yw Cynnig Gofal Plant Cymru?

Menter Llywodraeth Cymru yw Cynnig Gofal Plant Cymru sy’n golygu bod y rhan fwyaf o rieni sy’n gweithio ac sydd â phlant rhwng 3 a 4 oed  yn gallu hawlio arian tuag at gost gofal plant.

Gall rhieni cymwys yng Nghymru gael 30 awr o addysg gynnar a gofal plant am 48 wythnos y flwyddyn. Mae hyn yn cynnwys o leiaf 10 awr o ‘addysg gynnar’ yr wythnos a hyd at 20 awr yr wythnos o ofal plant. Mae’r union swm yn dibynnu ar faint o addysg gynnar y mae’ch awdurdod lleol yn ei gynnig.

Mae cannoedd o feithrinfeydd, gwarchodwyr plant, Cylchoedd Meithrin, grwpiau chwarae a crèches ledled Cymru yn rhan o’r cynnig, sy’n golygu y gallwch chi ddewis darparwr gofal plant sy’n diwallu anghenion eich teulu chi. Mae’r cynnig yn eich galluogi chi i fanteisio ar ofal plant Cymraeg, Saesneg neu ddwyieithog.

Mae ‘addysg gynnar’, neu Ddarpariaeth Meithrin y Cyfnod Sylfaen, ar gael i bob plentyn yng Nghymru o’r tymor ar ôl eu pen-blwydd yn dair oed. Mae pob awdurdod lleol yn darparu o leiaf 10 awr yr wythnos o addysg gynnar, naill ai yn yr ysgol leol neu mewn lleoliad fel cylch chwarae, meithrinfa ddydd neu Gylch Meithrin. Mae’r arian yn cael ei dalu’n uniongyrchol i’r darparwr gofal plant ac yn cael ei dynnu o’ch bil. Nid yw rhieni’n derbyn unrhyw arian yn uniongyrchol.

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Pwy sydd â’r hawl i gael Cynnig Gofal Plant Cymru?

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I fod yn gymwys i gael y cynnig mae’n rhaid i  bob rhiant:

• Fyw yng Nghymru
• Bod â phlentyn 3 neu 4 oed
• Bod ag incwm gros o £100,000 neu lai y flwyddyn
• Bod yn gyflogedig ac yn ennill o leiaf, ar gyfartaledd, yr hyn sy’n cyfateb i weithio 16 awr yr wythnos yn yr Isafswm Cyflog Cenedlaethol neu’r Cyflog Byw
• Neu wedi’ch cofrestru naill ai ar gwrs israddedig, ôl-raddedig neu addysg bellach sydd o leiaf 10 wythnos o hyd

Gallwch weld a ydych chi’n gymwys ar gyfer Cynnig Gofal Plant Cymru yma.

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Sut ydw i’n gallu hawlio Cynnig Gofal Plant Cymru?

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Gall plant cymwys fanteisio ar Gynnig Gofal Plant Cymru o ddechrau’r tymor yn dilyn eu pen-blwydd yn dair oed tan y mis Medi ar ôl eu pen-blwydd yn bedair oed, pan fyddan nhw’n dechrau addysg llawn amser.

Bydd angen i bob rhiant sy’n dymuno cael gofal plant wedi’i ariannu gan Gynnig Gofal Plant Cymru wneud cais drwy’r gwasanaeth digidol cenedlaethol newydd. Mae’r gwasanaeth ar-lein yn ddwyieithog ac mae modd mynd ato ar liniadur, ffôn symudol neu dabled.

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Wrth wneud cais, bydd angen:

• Tystysgrif geni eich plentyn
• Tystiolaeth o’ch cyfeiriad
• Tystiolaeth o incwm yr aelwyd neu’ch bod wedi’ch cofrestru ar gwrs addysg uwch neu addysg bellach

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Bydd hefyd angen i chi wybod (a darparu tystiolaeth):

• eich rhif Yswiriant Gwladol
• eich cyfeiriad cyflogaeth gyda chod publish
• cyfeiriad cyflogaeth eich associate ar yr eich aelwyd gyda’r cod publish
• enillion wythnosol cyfartalog i chi a’ch associate ar eich aelwyd
• cyflog blynyddol gros i chi a’ch associate ar eich aelwyd

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Mae angen i un prif riant gwblhau’r cais, hyd yn oed os ydych chi’n rhannu gwarchodaeth y plentyn.

Os ydych chi’n gwneud cais am sawl plentyn, er enghraifft efeilliaid, gallwch chi ychwanegu mwy o blant at yr un cais.

Caiff y budd-dal hwn ei dalu’n uniongyrchol i’r darparwr gofal plant a’i ddidynnu o’ch bil. Nid yw rhieni’n derbyn unrhyw arian yn uniongyrchol.

Am ragor o wybodaeth ac i wneud cais, ewch i wefan Cynnig Gofal Plant Cymru yma.

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Prydau Ysgol am Ddim

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Beth yw’r cynllun Prydau Ysgol am Ddim?

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Mae prydau ysgol am ddim ar gael i blant cymwys – fel arfer o gartrefi incwm is sydd yn derbyn budd-daliadau penodol – sy’n mynychu ysgol a gynhelir yng Nghymru. Mae hyn yn cynnwys plant iau sy’n mynychu meithrinfa am ddiwrnodau llawn a disgyblion ysgol chweched dosbarth.

Efallai eich bod chi wedi clywed bod cynllun Prydau Ysgol am Ddim i holl blant ysgolion cynradd yn cael ei gyflwyno ledled Cymru ar hyn o bryd. Mae hyn yn golygu y bydd pob plentyn ysgol gynradd yng Nghymru yn cael Prydau Ysgol am Ddim erbyn 2024, a phob awdurdod lleol yn gweithredu’r cynllun yn ei ysgolion. Mae’r ymrwymiad hwn gan Lywodraeth Cymru yn ymateb i’r pwysau costau byw cynyddol ar deuluoedd yn ogystal â’r ymrwymiad i ymdrin â thlodi plant a sicrhau nad oes yr un plentyn yn llwgu yn yr ysgol.

Os nad yw’ch plentyn yn y grŵp oedran sy’n derbyn Prydau Ysgol Am Ddim i bawb ar hyn o bryd, mae’n bosibl y bydd yn dal yn gymwys ar gyfer Prydau Ysgol Am Ddim.

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Pwy sydd â’r hawl i Brydau Ysgol am Ddim?

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Mae’n bosibl y bydd eich plentyn yn gymwys i gael Prydau Ysgol am Ddim os ydych chi’n cael unrhyw un o’r canlynol:

• Cymorth Incwm
• Lwfans Ceisio Gwaith yn seiliedig ar incwm
• lwfans Cyflogaeth a Chymorth sy’n gysylltiedig ag incwm
• cymorth o dan Ran VI o Ddeddf     Mewnfudo a Lloches 1999
• Credyd Treth Plant (cyn belled nad ydych chi hefyd yn cael Credyd Treth Gwaith a bod eich incwm blynyddol yw £16,190 neu’n llai cyn treth)
• yr elfen warantedig o Gredyd  Pensiwn
• Parhad y Credyd Treth Gweithio – wedi’i dalu am 4 wythnos ar ôl i’ch cymhwyster ar gyfer y Credyd Treth Gweithio ddod i ben
• Credyd Cynhwysol – rhaid i incwm eich cartref fod yn llai na £7,400 y flwyddyn ar ôl treth

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Gallai disgyblion sy’n derbyn Lwfans Cyflogaeth a Chymorth yn seiliedig ar Incwm, Cymorth Incwm neu Lwfans Ceisio Gwaith yn seiliedig ar incwm drwy eu hawl eu hunain hefyd allu cael prydau ysgol am ddim.

Gall rhieni maeth hefyd hawlio Prydau Ysgol am Ddim. Mae unrhyw riant cymwys yn gallu hawlio Prydau Ysgol am Ddim ar gyfer ei blentyn. Am fwy o wybodaeth ynghylch rhieni cymwys, edrychwch ar y dudalen hon.

Bydd darpariaeth prydau ysgol am ddim yn ystod y gwyliau yn parhau i fod ar gael i blant o deuluoedd incwm is ar gyfer gwyliau ysgol y Pasg a’r Sulgwyn.

Wrth i’r cynllun Prydau Ysgol am Ddim Cyffredinol i Ysgolion Cynradd gael ei gyflwyno, bydd mwy o wybodaeth yn cael ei ddarparu gan ysgol neu awdurdod lleol eich plentyn ar yr adeg berthnasol.

Ni fydd gwneud prydau ysgol am ddim yn gyffredinol yn effeithio ar unrhyw fuddion cysylltiedig eraill.

Ni fydd gweithredu’r cynllun cyffredinol yn effeithio ar blant hŷn sy’n cael Prydau Ysgol am Ddim, neu sy’n gymwys i wneud cais amdanyn nhw ar hyn o bryd.

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Sut ydw i’n gallu gwneud cais am Brydau Ysgol am Ddim?

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Yr awdurdod lleol lle mae dysgwr yn mynd i’r ysgol (nid lle mae’n byw) sy’n gyfrifol am:

• asesu’r cymhwysedd
• darparu Prydau Ysgol am Ddim

Mae mwy o wybodaeth, gan gynnwys sut i gadarnhau cymhwysedd, ar gael yma.

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Grant Hanfodion Ysgol

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Pa gymorth gallaf i ei gael ar gyfer costau ysgol eraill?

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Mae’r Grant Hanfodion Ysgol ar gael i gefnogi plant oedran ysgol mewn cartrefi ar incwm is ac sy’n gymwys i gael budd-daliadau penodol. Os yw’ch plentyn yn gymwys ar gyfer Prydau Ysgol am Ddim, rydych chi’n debygol o fod yn gymwys ar gyfer y Grant Hanfodion Ysgol.

Mae’r Grant Hanfodion Ysgol yn cynnig hyd at £225 y plentyn o oedran addysg gorfodol i helpu tuag at gostau eitemau fel gwisg ysgol, cit a deunydd ysgrifennu. Mae grant o hyd at £300 ar gael i’r plant hynny sydd ym mlwyddyn 7 ar hyn o bryd, i helpu gyda’r costau uwch sy’n gysylltiedig â dechrau yn yr ysgol uwchradd.

Mae modd defnyddio’r Grant Hanfodion Ysgol i helpu o ran:

• prynu gwisg ysgol, gan gynnwys cotiau ac esgidiau;
• gwisg ar gyfer gweithgareddau cyfoethogi gan gynnwys (ond heb fod yn gyfyngedig i) Sgowtiaid, Geidiaid, crefftau ymladd, chwaraeon, celfyddydau perfformio neu ddawns;
• cyfarpar ar gyfer yr ysgol, fel bagiau ysgol a deunydd ysgrifennu
• cyfarpar arbenigol pan fo gweithgareddau newydd y cwricwlwm yn dechrau fel dylunio a thechnoleg
• cyfarpar ar gyfer teithiau y tu allan i oriau ysgol fel dysgu yn yr awyr agored e.e. dillad gwrth-ddŵr

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Pwy sydd â hawl i’r Grant Hanfodion Ysgol?

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Mae’r Grant Hanfodion Ysgol ar gael i deuluoedd cymwys disgyblion sy’n dechrau:

• pob grŵp blwyddyn o’r dosbarth derbyn i flwyddyn 6 mewn ysgol gynradd a gynhelir
• blwyddyn 7 i 11 o ysgol uwchradd a gynhelir (gyda lwfans ychwanegol i’r rhai sy’n dechrau Blwyddyn 7)
• ysgol arbennig, canolfan adnoddau anghenion arbennig, neu uned atgyfeirio disgyblion, ar gyfer plant rhwng 4 a 15 oed.

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Mae’r grant hefyd ar gael i bob plentyn oedran ysgol gorfodol mewn ysgol a gynhelir sy’n derbyn gofal.

Mae gan ddisgyblion heb hawl i gyllid cyhoeddus a cheiswyr lloches sy’n mynd i mewn i unrhyw grŵp blwyddyn o’r dosbarth derbyn i flwyddyn 11 yn y flwyddyn ysgol 2022 i 2023 hawl i grant.

Rhaid i’r rhiant neu’r gwarcheidwad sy’n gwneud y cais fod yn derbyn un o’r canlynol:

• Cymorth Incwm
• Lwfans Ceiswyr Gwaith (yn seiliedig ar incwm)
• Lwfans Cymorth Cyflogaeth (yn gysylltiedig ag incwm)
• Credyd Treth Plant, gydag incwm aelwyd o £16,190 neu lai
• Credyd Pensiwn (elfen warantedig)
• Credyd Cynhwysol gydag enillion internet yr aelwyd o lai na £7,400

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Nid yw Credyd Treth Gwaith yn fudd-dal cymwys. Os ydych chi’n derbyn Credyd Treth Gwaith ni fydd gennych chi’r hawl i’r Grant Hanfodion Ysgol, hyd yn oed os ydych chi’n cael hwn ynghyd ag un o’r incymau uchod.   Bydd y rhai sy’n cael Prydau Ysgol Am Ddim oherwydd amddiffyn wrth bontio ond yn gymwys os ydyn nhw’n bodloni’r meini prawf uchod.

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Sut ydw i’n gallu hawlio’r Grant Hanfodion Ysgol?

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Mae gan deuluoedd yr hawl i hawlio unwaith ar gyfer pob plentyn, pob blwyddyn ysgol.

Mae cynllun 2022/23 ar agor nawr a bydd yn cau ar 30 Mehefin 2023.

I wneud cais am y Grant Hanfodion Ysgol, cysylltwch â’ch awdurdod lleol. Gallwch ddilyn y ddolen hon, mewnbynnu eich cod publish, a chael eich cyfeirio at wefan yr awdurdod lleol perthnasol.

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I gael gwybod pa gymorth ariannol y gallai fod gennych chi’r hawl iddo, gallwch gael sgwrs ag Advicelink Cymru yn gyfrinachol, heb feirniadaeth, ac am ddim ar 0808 250 5700 neu ewch i’r wefan.

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