Welfare reform analysis

Introduction

The Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Act 2012 placed a legal requirement on Scottish Government to produce an annual report on the impacts of UK Government welfare reform each year until 2017. Since then Scottish Government has continued to produce analysis on the impacts of welfare reform in Scotland.

2022

• Welfare reform - impact on households with children: report

2021

• Impact of reserved benefit policies on expenditure in Scotland: analysis
• Homelessness and Universal Credit: research report

2020

• Impact of withdrawing emergency benefit measures
• Welfare reform - housing and social security: second follow-up paper
• Welfare reform: impact report on benefits for disabled people

2019

• Welfare reform: annual report 2019

2018

• Welfare reform: annual report 2018
• Housing and Social Security: follow-up paper on Welfare Reform

2017

• UK welfare policy: impact on disabled people
• UK welfare policy: impact on families with children
• Welfare Reform (Further Provision) (Scotland) Act 2012: annual report 2017

2016

• The impact of welfare reform tracking study: sweep four report

2015

• The Impact of Welfare Reform in Scotland - Tracking Study - Sweep 3 Report

2014

• The Impact of Welfare Reform in Scotland - Tracking Study - Year 1 Report
• The Impact of Welfare Reform in Scotland - Tracking Study
• Financial Impacts of Welfare Reform - Illustrative Working Age Case Studies
• The Impact of Welfare Reform in Scotland Tracking Study - Baseline Findings

Related analysis

• research and evaluation of Scottish social security policy
• social security official statistics published by the Scottish Government 
• publications relating to the social security experience panels
• Universal Credit dashboard