Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

8 Strategy to promote take-up

(1) The Scottish Ministers are to prepare a strategy to promote take-up in accordance with this section and section 9.

(2) A strategy to promote take-up is to set out—

(a) the Scottish Ministers’ best estimate of the extent to which, at the time the strategy is prepared, all individuals who are eligible to be given assistance through the Scottish social security system are being given the assistance they are eligible to be given,

(b) the steps under section 3(b) that the Ministers intend to take during the strategy’s lifetime.

(3) Having prepared a strategy to promote take-up, the Scottish Ministers must—

(a) lay it before the Scottish Parliament, and

(b) make it publicly available by such means as they consider appropriate.