Publications

Information on applications and payments for Job Start Payment from 17 August 2020 to 30 September 2020.

Updated quarterly statistics for Carer’s Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Severe Disablement Allowance claimants in Scotland. Statistics are broken down by characteristics such as gender, age, duration of claim and entitlement. Further breakdowns are available on the Stat-Xplore website.

In our job adverts, you will find a list of up to four ‘essential criteria’. These are the kind of knowledge, skills or qualities that will be important for the job and will be related to the job that you are applying for. This guide has been designed to help you answer questions on the essential criteria.

We began taking applications for Funeral Support Payment on 16 September 2019. This publication provides information on applications and payments for Funeral Support Payment from this date to 30 September 2020. It therefore includes figures for approximately 12 months of applications.

Initial management information indicates that from Monday 9 November to Sunday 22 November, the total number of applications received was 39,000.

Social Security Scotland was established in September 2018. Our latest annual report shows that in the space of our first 19 months we’ve taken on responsibility for the administration of seven new benefits and paid more than £540 million in vital support to people across Scotland.

This framework is a co-designed list of measures relating to the commitments set out in Our Charter. Every year we will collect relevant and available information and data for the measures, put it into the framework and then publish the results.

Our Corporate Plan sets out what we will do to deliver on our responsibilities in the future. It shows how our service will look over the next three years and outlines the objectives we have set ourselves to get us there.

Initial management information indicates that, from Monday 9 November to Sunday 29 November, the total number of applications received was 43,000.