We use cookies to collect anonymous data to help us improve your site browsing experience.

Click 'Accept all cookies' to agree to all cookies that collect anonymous data. To only allow the cookies that make the site work, click 'Use essential cookies only.' Visit 'Set cookie preferences' to control specific cookies.

Set cookie preferences

Your cookie preferences have been saved. You can change your cookie settings at any time.

Publication - Impact assessment

Benefit Take-Up Strategy 2026-2031 - EQIA

Published
21 October 2026
From
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice and Housing, +1 more … Director of Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice
Directorate
Social Security Directorate, +1 more … Children and Families Directorate
Topic
Children and families, Communities and third sector, Cost of living crisis, +6 more … Energy, Equality and rights, Health and social care, Money and tax, Programme for Government, Public sector
ISBN
9781807756055

Equalities Impact Assessment (EQIA) for Benefit Take-Up Strategy 2026-2031

View supporting documents Supporting documents

References:

Scottish Government. Seldom-Heard Groups Action Plan 2025-2026 (2025)

Policy in Practice. Missing Out 2025: £24 billion of support is unclaimed (2025)

Independent Age: Jumping through hoops (2025)

Social Security Scotland User Profiles – Young People (2025)

Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Disability and Poverty (updated January 2026)

Department for Work and Pensions: Family Resources Survey: financial year 2021-2022

Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Disability and Poverty (updated January 2026)

Scottish Trans. Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences: Research report (2024)

Inclusion Scotland. Services for Who? The experiences of disabled people with other characteristics when accessing services (2020)

Scottish Government. Inequalities and challenges experienced by disabled people in Scotland: evidence review (2026)

Consumer Scotland. Disabled consumers living in rural Scotland (updated 2026)

Social Security Scotland client and applicant diversity and equalities analysis for April 2024 to May 2025 (2025)

Labour Hub: The Hidden Face of Female Poverty in the UK (2025)

Living Wage Foundation data release (2024)

Maternity & Midwifery Forum. Pushed into Poverty: the impact of pregnancy on working women (2025)

Bringing Hope, Building Futures: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2026-2031

University of Stirling. LGBT+ Welfare and Assets in Great Britain (2024)

Transactual. Trans Lives Report: Unliveable conditions for trans people in the UK and why it matters for human rights. (2026)

Social Security Scotland client and applicant diversity and equalities analysis for April 2024 to May 2025 (2025)

Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Ethnicity, poverty and in-work inequalities in the UK (2026)

Recognition and Risk: Ethnic Monitoring, Healthcare Access and Everyday Discrimination in Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller Communities in the UK (2026)

Research into seldom-heard groups within the Scottish social security system (2024)

Social Security Scotland client and applicant diversity and equalities analysis for April 2024 to May 2025 (2025)

Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities. Community Vaccine Champions: Evaluation Report (2024)

BMJ Open. Qualitative evaluation of a codesigned faith-based intervention for Muslim women in Scotland to encourage uptake of breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screening (2022)

Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Ethnicity, poverty and in-work inequalities in the UK (2026)

Social Security Scotland client and applicant diversity and equalities analysis for April 2024 to May 2025 (2025)

Social Security Scotland. Measuring Our Charter 2024-2025 (2025)

Contact

Email: Tasneem.Irshad@gov.scot

Back to top