The Scottish Child Payment Regulations 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision about a Scottish child payment, a type of assistance to be given by the Scottish Ministers under section 79 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (“the 2018 Act”). The payment will be provided as an additional payment to top-up the forms of reserved assistance specified in regulation 14, to persons who meet the eligibility criteria in regulation 18.

Part 2 of the Regulations provides for interpretation.

Part 3 of the Regulations sets out who is eligible to be given a Scottish child payment and provides for when continuing eligibility is to cease. It also states the value of the assistance that is to be given. Assistance can only be given in monetary form or given (in whole or in part) by way of deduction from an outstanding liability to the Scottish Ministers under these Regulations or section 63 of the 2018 Act.

Part 4 of the Regulations makes transitory provision for the treatment of applications during a 14 week period beginning with the day on which the Regulations come into force with entitlement to assistance being determined at the end of that period.

The schedule to the Regulations deals with procedural matters connected with applications for a Scottish child payment, decisions on applications and appeals. Part 2 of the schedule provides for circumstances in which a determination must, or can, be made without an application for assistance having been made.