Pension Age Winter Heating Payment: Fairer Scotland Duty assessment
The Fairer Scotland Duty (FSD) assessment carried out in relation to the Winter Heating Assistance (Pension Age) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025.
Footnotes
1 Under our universal PAWHP, a person living alone or with no other eligible person, will receive £100. For those living with another eligible person, a shared rate payment of £50 will be provided to each member of the household.
2 Scotland's Economic and Fisacl Forecasts (SEFF) - December 2024 (revised version 22 January 2025).
3 Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (legislation.gov.uk)
4 Low Income Winter Heating Assistance Consultation: Scottish Government Response
5 Pension Age Winter Heating Payment - Scottish Government Consultation
6 Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
7 Social Security experience panels: cold spell and winter fuel payment – 2020 report
8 Pension Age Winter Heating Payment Consultation
9 Social Security Experience (www.gov.scot)
8 Scottish House Condition Survey: 2023 Key Findings - gov.scot
11 Not enough to live on : Pensioner poverty in Scotland
12 Not enough to live on : Pensioner poverty in Scotland
13 Projected Population of Scotland: 2022-based - National Records of Scotland (NRS)
14 Projected Population of Scotland: 2022-based - National Records of Scotland (NRS)
15 Living longer - Office for National Statistics
17 Fuel Poverty (Target, Definition and Strategy) and Fuel Poverty Strategy: health impact assessment
18 energy-crisis-parliamentary-briefing---january-2022.pdf
20 Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2020-23
21 Living longer - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)
22 Page 20 Tackling Fuel Poverty in Scotland: A Strategic Approach (www.gov.scot)
23 Credit where it’s due: A briefing on low uptake of Pension Credit
24 Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts – December 2024 | Scottish Fiscal Commission – Supplementary Figures – Figure 5.2
25 Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts – December 2024 | Scottish Fiscal Commission – Supplementary Figures – Figure 5.2
26 Social Security Experience (www.gov.scot)
27 Scottish House Condition Survey: 2023 Key Findings - gov.scot
28 Low Income Winter Heating Assistance (LIWHA): consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
29 Winter Fuel Payments for “off-gas grid” households - House of Commons Library (parliament.uk)