Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal & Simple
The Expert Working Group on Welfare was asked to consider the principles which could underpin the welfare system in an independent Scotland. We also considered, in broad terms, the policy propositions for working-age benefits that could be pursued by Governments in an independent Scotland and, where relevant, the implications such policies might have for cost and delivery. The Report is designed to stimulate debate for everyone in Scotland as they consider their future and the shape their welfare system might take. The work builds on the Group?s first report, published in June 2013, which focused on what Scotland would inherit and the transitional priorities for change in the event of independence. The report includes almost 40 recommendations for change, based on the three high-level principles: Fair, Personal and Simple.