Publications

High level information on Funeral Support Payments, including statistics on the number of applications received, processed and authorised, as well as the value of payments made up to 30 September 2023.

This release provides management information on applications and payments for Carer Support Payment, covering from Monday 20 November to Sunday 17 December 2023.

Our key objective is to pay the right people the right money at the right time. Careful consideration has been given to minimising the risk of error occurring, and to identify and quickly resolve where error does occur.

The purpose of this Counter Fraud Strategy is to explain how we intend to mitigate the threat of fraud against our organisation.

This Official Statistics publication presents quarterly data on the Social Security Scotland’s workforce. The statistics show: • numbers of directly employed staff by category • numbers of non-directly employed workers by category • staff sickness absence • staff diversity information • location information Quarterly updates to the tables in the publication are released in March, June, September, and December. The latest period is to the end of September 2023, published in December 2023.

We have produced a Guide To Information that sets out the types of information available, how we plan on publishing the information, and if there will be a charge for the information. The purpose of the Guide To Information is to ensure information is available, without the need for a specific request. As an organisation we aim to publish more information pro-actively and to develop an open culture.