Social Security Experience Panels - Low Income Winter Heating Assistance: survey findings

Footnotes

1. We contacted Panel members who had told us that they previously had experience of the Cold Weather Payment, as well as those who had told us that they had experience of other benefits that are part of the eligibility criteria for Cold Weather Payment. This included panel members who have told us that they had experience of Universal Credit.

2. Providing people meet the qualifying conditions, the Cold Weather Payment is made to those in receipt of Income Support (IS), Income Based Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA (IB)), Income Related Employment Support Allowance (ESA (IR)), Pension Credit (PC), Support for Mortgage Interest loan (SMI), and Universal Credit (UC).

3. Scottish Government (2020). Social Security Experience Panels: Cold Spell and Winter Heating Assistance. [Online] Available at: Social Security Experience Panels: Cold Spell and Winter Heating Assistance (www.gov.scot)

4. Scottish Government (2020). Social Security Experience Panels – panel members: full report – 2020 update. [Online] Available at: Social Security Experience Panels - panel members: full report - 2020 update - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. Cold Weather Payment: Eligibility. [Online] Available at: Cold Weather Payment: Eligibility - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

6. Scottish Government (2021). Low Income Winter Heating Assistance (LIWHA): consultation. [Online] Available at: Low Income Winter Heating Assistance (LIWHA): consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

7. Scottish Government (2020) Cleaner Air for Scotland 2: consultation. [Online] Available at: Cleaner Air for Scotland 2: consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)