Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018

Valid from 08/10/2020

36Short-term assistanceS

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(1)Short-term assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to an individual on a short-term basis.

(2)The Scottish Ministers are to make regulations prescribing—

(a)the eligibility rules that are to be applied to determine whether an individual is entitled to short-term assistance, and

(b)what short-term assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.

(3)Schedule 10 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).