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Publication - Impact assessment

Disability Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023: fairer Scotland impact assessment

Published
11 September 2023
Directorate
Social Security Directorate
Part of
Equality and rights
ISBN
9781835212660

Fairer Scotland duty impact assessment to consider potential impacts of the Disability Assistance (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 on socio-economic inequality.

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Footnotes

1. Social security - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2. 3 Disability Assistance in Scotland - Disability assistance in Scotland: analysis of consultation responses - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3. Analysis of written responses to the consultation on social security in Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. See DWP benefits case transfers: survey findings - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) and Social Security Experience Panels: designing the benefits case transfer process - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 (data.gov.scot)

6. Relative poverty is a measure of whether the income of the poorest households are keeping pace with the middle income households.

7. Wealth in Scotland 2006-2020 (data.gov.scot)

8. How are young people's life chances patterned by disadvantage and protected characteristics? - The life chances of young people in Scotland: evidence review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

9. The Energy Penalty: Disabled People and Fuel Poverty | Fuel Poverty Research Library (fuelpovertylibrary.info)

10. Additional child poverty analysis 2019 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

11. Food insecurity among disabled adults - PMC (nih.gov)

12. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2017-20 (data.gov.scot)

13. Poverty types: Families with children - Poverty in Perspective: a typology of poverty in Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14. The Energy Penalty: Disabled People and Fuel Poverty | Fuel Poverty Research Library (fuelpovertylibrary.info)

15. Disability benefits and support after coronavirus | Disability charity Scope UK

16. A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19 | United Nations

17. Scottish house condition survey: 2019 key findings - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

18. Disabled people hit hard by rising energy bills - BBC News

19. Fuel poverty advicea and the protected characteristics - An analysis of data from the Citizens Advice network in Scotland (2021) (www.cas.org.uk)

20. The Energy Penalty: Disabled People and Fuel Poverty | Fuel Poverty Research Library (fuelpovertylibrary.info)

Contact

Email: Jennifer.Robertson@gov.scot

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