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Report

Impact of COVID 19 on people with disabilities and their carers

28 July 2020
This report focuses on social security issues during lock down, highlighting problems making and maintaining claims without support, difficulties participating telephone assessments and appeals, some PIP awards stopping and uncertainty about whether others would be extended, a number of severely disabled and terminally ill people not receiving additional amounts they were entitled to and a gap in support for some carers.
Carers Coronavirus Disability benefits Disabled children Early warning system (Scotland) Report Scotland
Report

Impact of COVID 19 of families

21 July 2020
This report concentrates on the impact of COVID 19 on families living in Scotland and highlights that many families are struggling financially due to inadequate support from the social security system and/or being unable to work while schools and childcare providers are closed.
Benefit cap Benefit levels Childcare Coronavirus Early warning system (Scotland) Report Universal credit Scotland
Report

The impact of COVID 19 on migrants

21 July 2020
This report concentrates on the impact of COVID 19 on migrants living in Scotland and highlights social security policy and administration has left some migrants with little or no income during the pandemic.
Benefit levels Benefits for people from abroad Coronavirus Early warning system (Scotland) Report Scotland
Briefing

Early Warning System Latest Findings: June

06 July 2020
Latest issues include: overpayment recovery, accidental migration to UC and difficulties for EU nationals in establishing a right to reside.
Benefit delivery Benefits for people from abroad Briefing Early warning system (Scotland) Universal credit Scotland
Report

The Cost of Learning in Lockdown: family experiences of school closures

18 June 2020
To understand how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted children’s experience of learning, we conducted some research through surveys and interviews. We gathered the experiences of 3,600 parents and carers, along with 1,300 children and young people, with an emphasis on the experiences of low-income households. We found that the cost burdens of school closures have fallen most heavily on families already living on a low income.
Children’s benefits Coronavirus Cost of the school day Education Health Report UK Scotland
Briefing

Revision of Scottish Welfare Fund guidance: Briefing from CPAG in Scotland, Poverty Alliance and Citizens Advice Scotland

11 June 2020
Briefing Scotland
Briefing

Early Warning System Latest Findings 18th - 29th May

08 June 2020
Latest include: lone parents with no childcare being told to take unpaid leave, families claiming UC not realising their tax credits would stop and EU nationals with little or no access to benefits just now
Benefit cap Benefits for people from abroad Briefing Childcare Covid 19 Early warning system (Scotland) Housing Students Tax credits Universal credit Scotland
Briefing

Early Warning System Latest Findings 4th-16th May

22 May 2020
Latest issues include: seriously ill people not receiving additional amounts in their UC, accidental migration to UC, people being refused PIP assessments on request and lack of benefit entitlement in respect of 16 and 17 year olds.
Briefing Covid 19 Early warning system (Scotland) PIP Universal credit Scotland

SCoRSS Covid-19 briefing

21 May 2020
Scotland
Briefing

Early Warning System Latest Findings 27th April - 1st May

11 May 2020
Latest issues emerging from the Early Warning System include: claimants subject to the benefit cap not benefiting from the increase in UC, EU nationals with no entitlement to means-tested benefits; disabled people struggling to claim PIP or partake in assessments, and the impact of bereavement on social security entitlement
Benefit cap Briefing Covid 19 Early warning system (Scotland) Housing benefit PIP Universal credit Scotland