Welfare reform update scotland

Benefit Changes Timetable Benefit Changes Timetable Please note that information about some of these changes may be limited at present and also subject to further change. June Care leavers' exemption from the shared room rate of Local Housing Allowance LHA will be expanded to include all care leavers under the age of Scotland to begin trialling Child Disability Payments Scotland to increase entitlement to free childcare for 2, 3 and 4 year olds.

November Scotland to introduce face-to-face application support for all Scottish benefits. Scotland to open applications for Child Disability Payment across all of Scotland. Date of publication: 13 December Previous Benefit Changes Timetable Next Benefit Changes Timetable What you were doing?

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This report is designed to provide an update and refresh to Housing and Social Security: follow-up paper on Welfare Reform , published in May building on the context provided by the Welfare reform: annual report In particular this report updates the evidence on Universal Credit impacts, Local Housing Allowance Rates, and the benefit cap. Our findings show that UK changes to welfare policies continue to have a significant impact on the housing sector in Scotland.

For many this will make it harder for them to pay their rent and make ends meet. The Local Housing Allowance rate cap has continued to reduce the accessibility of private rented accommodation for many areas of Scotland.

Our updated analysis see chapter 5 suggests that only 11 out of 90 LHA rates in Scotland are set at the level allowing families to rent a home in the 30 th percentile of the rental market. The blanket cap has created a system that has been unable to adapt to varying private rental markets across Scotland, meaning some areas and some rates have been particularly badly affected. Action is needed from the UK Government to level rates up, ideally to the 30 th percentile across the board, and create a system that is fair across Scotland.

You can change your cookie settings at any time. The Welfare Reform Further Provision Scotland Act placed a legal requirement on Scottish Government to produce an annual report on the impacts of UK Government welfare reform each year until Since then Scottish Government has continued to produce analysis on the impacts of welfare reform in Scotland.