Stage 1 Report on the Social Security (Scotland) Bill

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Overview
Report
- Executive Summary of Key Conclusions and Recommendations
- Introduction
  - About the Bill
  - Scrutiny by the Social Security Committee
- Scottish Government Approach
- Issues not Included in the Bill
  - Primary v Secondary Legislation
    
    Eligibility criteria included in bill
    
    Super-affirmative Procedure
  - Independent Scrutiny
  - Uprating of benefits
  - Use of Private Contractors
  - Residency and Cross-border Issues
  - Automatic Assessment
- Part 1 of the Bill- Principles, Charter and Accountability
  - The Existing Principles
    
    Legal Basis
  - New and Amended Principles
    
    Advocacy
    
    Duty on Scottish Ministers
    
    The Eradication of Poverty
    
    Other Principles
    
    Discrimination
    
    Transparency and Accessibility
    
    Human Rights
  - The Charter
    
    Redress
    
    Accessibility
    
    Consultation
  - The Annual Report
- Part 2 of the Bill - Giving of Assistance by Scottish Ministers
  - Types of assistance
  - Form of assistance
  - New benefits
  - Short-term assistance
    
    Purpose of short-term assistance
    
    Whether short-term assistance is repayable
    
    DPLR Committee view on scope of power
  - Applications and Determining Entitlement
    
    Re-determinations and Appeals
  - Recovery of assistance given in error
  - Offences and Investigations
- Part 3 of the Bill - Supplementing assistance under other enactments
  - Top up of reserved benefits
  - Carer's allowance supplement
- Part 4 of the Bill - Discretionary Housing Payments
- Financial memorandum
  - Finance and Constitution Committee consideration
  - Social Security Committee consideration - ICT implementation
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- Annex A - Overview of evidence received on types of assistance
  - Carer's assistance
    
    Young Carer Grant
    
    Amount of carer's assistance available
    
    Link between carer's assistance and disability assistance
  - Cold-spell heating assistance
  - Winter heating assistance
  - Disability assistance
    
    General
    
    Definition of disability
    
    Assessment and eligibility
    
    Terminal illness
    
    Assistance for over 65s
    
    Scottish Government commitments
  - Early years assistance
  - Employment-injury assistance
  - Funeral expense assistance
- Annex B - Extracts from the minutes
- Annex C - Other written evidence
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One Parent Families Scotland. (2017). Written Submission.

MS Scotland. (2017). Written Submission.

Professor Mullen, Glasgow University. (2017). Written Submission.

Law Society of Scotland. (2017). Written Submission.

Crohn's and Colitis UK. (2017). Written Submission.

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Citizens Advice Scotland. (2017). Written Submission.

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Enable Scotland. (2017). Written Submission.

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Royal Blind and Scottish War Blinded. (2017). Written Submission.

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Parkinson's UK in Scotland. (2017). Written Submission.

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CPAG. (2017). Written Submission.

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Argyll and Bute Council. (2017). Written Submission.

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NHS Health Scotland. (2017). Written Submission.

Scottish Government. (2017, September). Policy Position Paper, Re-determinations and appeals.

Govan Law Centre. (2017). Written Submission.

Social Security Committee 21 September 2017, Jessica Burns, contrib. 82, http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/report.aspx?r=11100&c=2024019

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