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Tag: Social Security

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Scottish social security in six charts

October 4, 2022 SPICe

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

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Social Security budget 2022-23

December 17, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at social security in the 2022-23 Scottish Budget.

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Removing the Universal Credit uplift: what will be the effect on Scottish households?

September 1, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at the impact on Scottish households of the planned removal of the Universal Credit uplift.

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Scottish Child Payment: where next?

July 19, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Scottish Child Payment was introduced in February 2021. With further changes planned, this blog looks at its current and potential impact on child poverty.

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COVID-19 and rented property in Scotland : Scottish and UK Government support for tenants and landlords

July 7, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post summarises action taken by the Scottish and UK Governments to assist tenants and landlords during the COVID-19 pandemic to date and planned future action.

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Scottish Social Security and Brexit: many complex moving parts

May 21, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 5 minutes Brexit has made many things more complicated – this blog summarises a SPICe commissioned project looking at some of the impacts on
devolved social security.

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Devolved Social security after brexit

February 8, 2021 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes A look at how devolved Social Security benefits are affected by Brexit.

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Scotland’s new devolved employment support service

October 8, 2018 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes Scotland’s new devolved employment service, Fair Start Scotland (FSS), was launched in April. It is too early to say whether it’s been successful or not;

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Guest Blog – The National Performance Framework

April 16, 2018 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes As with all guest blogs, what follows are the views of the author, Jennifer Wallace, Head of Policy at the Carnegie UK Trust, and not those

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Devolved disability benefits: how might entitlement be assessed?

March 1, 2018 SPICe

Reading Time: 4 minutes Control over some disability benefits (including personal independence payment (PIP), disability living allowance (DLA) and industrial injuries benefits, amongst others) will soon be devolved to

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