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Publication - Impact assessment

Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025: partial business and regulatory impact assessment – 21 March 2025

Published
4 June 2025
From
Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice
Directorate
Social Security Directorate
Topic
Business, industry and innovation, Communities and third sector
ISBN
9781836916086

This impact assessment considers impacts on businesses of removing Tax Credits as qualifying benefits for devolved benefits, updating Discretionary Housing Payments references in The Scotland Act (2018), changes to Scottish Child Payment, Carers Allowance and Young Carer Grants appeals regulations.

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4. Intended outcomes

These regulations are intended to tidy up the existing legislation (including the legislation related to information sharing). As previously noted, there will no longer be any people receiving tax credits after 5 April 2025.

Contact

Email: chris.loh@gov.scot

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