Reading Time: 4 minutes The latest statistics show that Scotland is far from achieving its child poverty targets.
Tag: Social Security
Additional Costs of Disability
Reading Time: 4 minutes Disabled 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,
Social Security Scotland Benefits
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quick overview of Social Security Scotland benefit rates for 2024/25.
Tackling the cost of living – Scottish Government Policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 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.
Scottish Social Security: Application Processing Times
Reading Time: 7 minutes Scottish disability benefits are taking a long time to process, and the huge increase in applications for Scottish Child Payment in November, as a result of extending eligibility to children under 16, was still being worked through at the end of December.
This blog looks at the statistics on processing times for Scottish Social Security payments, focusing on Scottish Child Payment and disability benefits.
Social Security in Six Charts – update
Reading Time: 5 minutes Scottish social security is growing fast. In December 2022, David Wallace, Chief Executive of Social Security Scotland said that: We are just past the midway
Why is Scotland spending an additional £1 billion on social security?
Reading Time: 5 minutes In 2023-24 the amount paid out in devolved social security benefits is forecast to increase by around £1 billion – from £4.2 billion in 2022-23
Scottish social security in six charts
Reading Time: 5 minutes Scottish social security is growing fast. By the end of this year, the main agency delivering devolved benefits, Social Security Scotland, will employ over 3,500
Social Security budget 2022-23
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at social security in the 2022-23 Scottish Budget.
Removing the Universal Credit uplift: what will be the effect on Scottish households?
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at the impact on Scottish households of the planned removal of the Universal Credit uplift.