February 2024

This report summarises the characteristics of self-employed Universal Credit (UC) claimants during Autumn 2020-2021. Research background We commissioned this report, prior to the pandemic, to better understand the characteristics and […]

This document sets out further Tax Credit claimant research and early evidence from discovery work looking at people on other combinations of legacy benefits. Our August publication outlined the lessons learnt from

Along with other members of the End Child Poverty coalition, CPAG in Scotland sent a Budget Scorecard to all MSPs ahead of the vote. Their scorecard concludes that there is a lack

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is in the process of moving legacy benefit claimants onto universal credit (UC) through managed migration. Gradually, claimants are being selected for managed

There are two Money Guiders Scotland network events coming up in March that you might be interested in. These are the two remaining workshops in the current series of ‘Wellbeing

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is calling on the Government to extend its new timescales for moving people from older benefits to universal credit to prevent vulnerable claimants from falling

Benefit sanctions have become harsher amid the cost of living crisis according to newly released government data Benefit sanctions imposed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have become

This is despite the DWP admitting that up to 900,000 people on legacy benefits would be worse off under universal credit One in five people on legacy benefits who are

Case update – 7 and 8 February 2024 The Supreme Court refused the Secretary of State’s application for permission to appeal on 7 February 2024 on the basis the application

A comprehensive study into the barriers faced by Aberdeen parents to employment, training, and job progression has been commissioned by ABZWorks. Rocket Science will carry out the research at a