Carer Support Payment: business and regulatory impact assessment

Footnotes

1. When the consultation launched, our working title for the new benefit was ‘Scottish Carer’s Assistance.’ We worked with carers, carer organisations and our Experience Panel members to choose and test a preferred name for the new benefit. Following this the chosen name for the benefit replacing Carer’s Allowance in Scotland was ‘Carer Support Payment.’

2. National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (2022)Financial Memorandum(paragraph 72)

3. Jackie Drake successfully argued that the exclusion of married women from Carer’s Allowance, where married men residing with their wives were not excluded, constituted a clear example of direct discrimination on the grounds of sex.

4. Summary official statistics for Carer’s Allowance Supplement to April eligibility date in 2023, published in August 2023

5. Young Carer Grant: high level statistics to 30 April 2023, published in August 2023

6. Most respondents to our 2016 consultation on social security, supported the goal we set for Scottish Carer's Assistance, that it would be 'not a payment for care [but] provide some financial support and recognition for those who choose to, or who have had to give up or limit their employment or study because of caring responsibilities'. https://www.gov.scot/publications/analysis-written-responses-consultation-social-security-scotland/

7. Carer’s Allowance is an ‘income-replacement’ benefit so carers may not be earning more than £132 per week (2022/23 rate) from employment, after tax, National Insurance and some expenses. More information on is available at: https://www.gov.uk/carers-allowance/eligibility

8. Scottish Carer’s Assistance discussion paper

9. National Carers Strategy

10. After deductions

11. Carer’s Allowance Supplement will continue to be paid in the same way as now until we safely and securely transfer the awards of carers in Scotland receiving Carer’s Allowance from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to Social Security Scotland .Consequential amendments will provide necessary provisions for CAS to be paid to those getting CSP as well as CA until case transfer is complete

12. Carer Support Payment Consultation (www.gov.scot)

13. Social Security Scotland – Information on Benefits: Social Security Scotland - Benefits

14. Footnotes - National Care Service - people who access adult social care and unpaid carers: evidence - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

15. Stat-Xplore - Dataset: CA: Cases with entitlement - Data from May 2018 - Gender by Quarter and Client type - Stat-Xplore-Table View (dwp.gov.uk)

16. UK Poverty 2022: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK | JRF

17. UK Poverty 2022: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK | JRF

18. Carers Week Report 2023 page 25

19. Source: Annual Population Survey, Jan-Dec 2019, ONS

20. Carer Positive the standard for employers in creating supportive working environment for carers

21. Carer's Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill: business and regulatory impact assessment - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

22. Carers Week Report 2023

23. Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018: benefit take-up strategy - October 2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

24. Scottish Carer's Assistance: consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

25. Carer Support Payment: consultation analysis - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

26. Social Security: Scottish Carer's Assistance Consultation: Scottish Government Response - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

27. Social Security Experience Panels - Carer Support Payment: main report - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

28. See findings from DWP benefits case transfer process survey and Social Security Experience Panels; designing the case transfer process (gov.scot)

29. Respondent profile, p.13 Scottish Carer’s Assistance: Independent Analysis of Responses to Consultation (www.gov.scot)

30. Summary statistics for Carer's Allowance Supplement, April eligibility date 2023 and Carer’s Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Severe Disablement Allowance at February 2023

31. https://www.gov.scot/policies/human-rights/embedding-human-rights-in-our-work/

32. Scotland’s Economic and Fiscal Forecasts – May 2023 – Scottish Fiscal Commission

33. Carers may have a ‘Genuine and sufficient link’ if they do not live in Scotland but have links to the country. This may be because, they, or a family member have spent a significant part of their life in Scotland.

34. Some carers will be able to get Carer Support Payment outside of the UK if they are covered by the Withdrawal Agreement the UK Government made with the European Union before leaving. Carers may be covered if they are a European Economic Area or Swiss national who moved to the UK before the 1st of January 2021, or a UK national who moved to a European Economic Area country or Switzerland before the 1st of January 2021, or if they are moving to join a family member who moved before this date. Ireland and Gibraltar have their own agreements with the UK Government. British or Irish nationals who have moved to Ireland from the UK may be able to get Carer Support Payment regardless of when they moved if they have a genuine and sufficient link to Scotland. People of any nationality living in Gibraltar who moved there from the UK may also be able to get Carer Support Payment regardless of when they moved if they have a genuine and sufficient link to Scotland.

35. Evidence round up: Third sector impacts and looking ahead - Policy Scotland (gla.ac.uk)

36. Devolved benefits: evaluating the policy impact - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

37. Devolution of disability benefits: evaluation strategy - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)