Publication - Impact assessment

Winter Heating Payment (Low Income) (Scotland): fairer Scotland duty assessment

Published: 18 November 2022
Directorate: Social Security Directorate
Topic: Communities and third sector, Equality and rights
ISBN: 9781805252030

This Fairer Scotland Duty Impact Assessment (FSD) assesses the impact of the Winter Heating Payment on socio-economic inequality. This duty came into force in Scotland in 2018 and is set out in Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010. It considers issues such as low income, low wealth and area deprivation.

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Footnotes

1. Low Income Winter Heating Assistance consultation: Scottish Government response

2. Pension Credit, Income Support, income-based Jobseekers Allowance, income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Universal Credit and Support for Mortgage Interest. Additional qualifying criteria in relation to premiums paid because the client is of pension age, disabled or because the client has a disabled young person or child in their household also need to be met.

3. Low Income Winter Heating Assistance (LIWHA): consultation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. Low Income Winter Heating Assistance: consultation analysis

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

6. Low Income Winter Heating Assistance: consultation analysis

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

8. Low Income Winter Heating Assistance consultation: Scottish Government response

9. Disability and poverty: Why Disability Must Be at the Centre of Poverty Reduction

10. Scotland's National Strategy for Economic Transformation: equality transition statement

11. The Energy Penalty: Disabled People and Fuel Poverty

12. Income and benefits | JRF

13. Scottish House Condition Survey: Key Findings 2019 - 4 Fuel Poverty - Scottish house condition survey: 2019 key findings - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14. Section 243: scottish-house-condition-survey-2019-key-findings.pdf