Benefit Take-up

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Overview
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- Membership changes
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Difficulties in estimating take-up
- Government take-up strategies
  - Scottish Government take-up strategy
  - UK Government take-up strategy
  - A joint effort
- Barriers to take-up
- What needs to happen to increase take-up
  - Benefit administration
  - Take-up campaigns
  - Partnership working and welfare rights advice services
  - ICT and data sharing
- Annexe A - Extracts from minutes
- Annexe B - Evidence
  - Written Evidence
  - Oral Evidence
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