SPICe Spotlight | Solas air SPICe
Reading Time: 26 minutesThis extended, long-read blogpost provides a summary of the Scottish Government’s Programme for Government 2025-26 and highlights areas that are likely to be of particular interest to MSPs and the Parliament over the next year.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew blog from SPICe looks at what today’s spring statement means for the Scottish social security budget.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe UK Government has set our reforms to health and disability benefits. Disability benefits are devolved to the Scottish Government – so how will the reforms impact here?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe social security budget for 2025-26 is approaching £7 billion. This blog looks at what that money is spent on.
Reading Time: 6 minutesRegulations to introduce a means-tested Pension Age Winter Heating Payment in Scotland were laid in the Scottish Parliament on 25 September 2024. This is the
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhile Scottish Child Payment reaches almost every child in poverty, there are even more children above the poverty line who also receive this benefit.Â
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe latest statistics show that Scotland is far from achieving its child poverty targets.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDisabled people face additional costs compared to non-disabled people. These costs are many and varied, and depend on individual circumstances, such as type of disability,
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuick overview of Social Security Scotland benefit rates for 2024/25.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Scottish Government has highlighted around £3 billion of spending per year on policies that help tackle the cost of living. This blog looks at those policies and how spending on them has changed over three years. It also looks at how people’s views of their own household finances have changed over the last two years.