Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025
Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 2)
- Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 (2025 asp 2)
- Part 1 Types of social security assistance
- 1 Childhood assistance
- 2 Care experience assistance
- Part 2 Applications for assistance
- 3 Repeal of section 52B of the 2018 Act
- 4 Power to make provision about late applications for assistance
- Part 3 Determinations and re-determinations of entitlement to assistance
- Re-determinations
- 5 Re-determination and appeal deadlines in exceptional circumstances
- 6 Withdrawal of request for re-determination
- 7 Re-determinations after the period allowed
- New determination of entitlement during appeal
- 8 New determination of entitlement during appeal
- Determinations as part of appeal
- 9 Determinations as part of appeal
- Appeal against Scottish Ministers’ process decisions
- 10 Appeal to First-tier Tribunal against process decisions
- Part 4 Assistance given in error
- 11 Liability for assistance given in error
- 12 Liability of individual’s estate
- 13 Assistance given in error: reviews and appeals
- 14 Assistance given in error: deductions from other assistance
- Part 5 Appointees
- 15 Power to make provision in relation to appointments made by a Minister of the Crown
- 16 Liability of appointees under sections 85A and 85B of the 2018 Act
- Part 6 Uprating assistance for inflation
- 17 Duty to uprate assistance for inflation
- Part 7 Information for audit
- 18 Information for audit of social security system
- Part 8 Recovery from compensation payments
- 19 Recovery of value of assistance from compensation payments
- Part 9 Scottish Commission on Social Security
- 20 Scrutiny of regulations by the Commission
- 21 Removal of Commission’s status as body corporate
- 22 Removal of Commission’s accounting and auditing duties
- 23 Duty on Commission to publish annual report
- Part 10 Final Provisions
- 24 Meaning of “2018 Act”
- 25 Ancillary provision
- 26 Regulation-making powers
- 27 Commencement
- 28 Short title