February 2024

ELECTED MEMBER BRIEFING NOTE We will use the IS website and elected member e-bulletin to publicise and provide access to the briefing notes. All briefing notes in the series can […]

The NRPF: tackling and preventing destitution project has been funded by the Fairer Aberdeen Fund for two years and may be funded for a third year starting in April 2024.

With the Department for Communities currently issuing thousands of Migration Notice letters each month to people on Tax Credits as part of its ‘Move to UC’ programme, we want to

Scottish students are to receive a £2,400 boost to help with their living costs from this September in the form of a new “special support” loan. This will be available

Key details reveal how four private sector providers have been told to carry out health and disability benefit assessments over the next five years, after being awarded £2.8 billion-worth of

Universal credit (UC) claimants are not always getting extra amounts of UC they’re entitled to when they become eligible for some other benefits because of poor data-sharing within the DWP,

Report of survey findings January 2024 Social welfare advice services help people to understand and act on their legal rights, tackling hardship and poor living and working conditions. Health justice

We are pleased to offer this new option for people in Grampian who would like a Blood Borne Virus (BBV) test. Please promote this one year pilot scheme to your

Best Start Grants awarded without need for a separate application More than 43,000 payments have been paid automatically to help parents and carers with the cost of living and starting

Updated on 08 February 2024 SSWP v AT (AIRE Centre and IMA Intervening) [2022] UKUT 330 (AAC); SSWP v AT [2023] EWCA Civ 1307 Judgment of the Upper Tribunal three