Carer's Allowance Supplement: evaluation

Footnotes

1. Scottish Government (2019) Carers strategic policy statement: consultation.
This definition supersedes an earlier one that governed initial CAS evaluation activity that the Scottish Government "support carers to protect their health and wellbeing, so they can continue to care if they wish, and have a life alongside caring" (available here).

2. Scottish Government (2017) Carer Benefit Advisory Group minutes: February 2016

3. Scottish Government (2019) Carers strategic policy statement: consultation. These outcomes are still in draft form and are still to be finalised.

4. Scottish Government (2019) Social security: benefit take-up strategy

5. Scottish Government (2019) Carers strategic policy statement: consultation.

This definition supersedes an earlier one that governed the CAS evaluation activity thatthe Scottish Government "support carers to protect their health and wellbeing, so they can continue to care if they wish, and have a life alongside caring" (available here).

6. Scottish Government (2015) Scotland's Carers

7. Scottish Government (2019) Support for carers: policy position paper

8. Carers UK (2019) State of Caring 2019

9. Scottish Government (2015) Scotland's Carers

10. ibid

11. Scottish Government (2019) Devolved benefits: evaluating the policy impact

12. Scottish Government (2017) Carer Benefit Advisory Group minutes: February 2016

13. Scottish Government (2019) Carers strategic policy statement: consultation. These outcomes are still in draft form and are still to be finalised.

14. More information on the Carer Benefit Advisory Group can be found here

15. Scottish Government (2020) Social Security Scotland statistics: publications

16. Scottish Government (2019) Social Security Experience Panels: Carer's Allowance Supplement - experiences

17. Scottish Government (2019) Support for carers: policy position paper

18. Scottish Government (2019) Carers strategic policy statement: consultation.

19. Carer's Allowance at February 2020 and Carer's Allowance Supplement to April eligibility date 2020: statistics

20. Carers stop receiving Carer's Allowance and Carer's Allowance Supplement if they start receiving State Pension and this increases their income over a threshold amount.

21. CAS has a negligible impact on other benefits explained here