• Introduction
  • Overview of the Bill
  • Evidence
  • Scrutiny
  • Finance and Public Administration Committee
  • Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee
  • Policy Memorandum
  • Approach to the report

• Social security principles

• Part 1: Types of social security assistance
  • Scottish Child Payment
    • Suggested amendments to Scottish Child Payment
      • Eligibility criteria
      • Application process
  • Care Experience Assistance
    • Suggested amendments to Care Experience Assistance
    • Regulation making powers
  • Annual uprating of new benefits

• Part 2: Applications for assistance
  • Late applications
  • Backdating

• Part 3: Determinations and re-determinations of entitlement to assistance
  • Deadlines to request a re-determination
  • Withdrawing re-determination requests and lapsing appeals
  • Is the re-determination stage required?
  • Process appeals

• Part 4: Assistance given in error
  • Liability of representatives
  • Identifying who has benefited
  • Liability of deceased individual's estate
  • Review and appeal rights
  • A threshold for debt recovery
  • Fair repayment arrangements and compassion

• Part 5: Appointees

• Part 6: Information for audit
  • Purpose of the measures
    • Conflation of fraud and error
  • Suspending benefit
    • Social security principles
  • Suggested alternative approaches
  • Consultation

• Part 7: Recovery from compensation payments
  • Options for delivery: benefits of a single system
  • Creation of criminal offences by regulations

• Part 8: Scottish Commission on Social Security

• Overall conclusions on the general principles of the Bill

• Annexe A: Written and oral evidence

• Annexe B: Extracts of minutes of meetings