This consultation sets out plans and proposals to reform health and disability benefits and employment support. This Green Paper is an important staging post on a journey of reform, building on the vision and approach set out in the Get Britain Working White Paper in November 2024. It sets out our vision, strategy and proposals for change.
The Department for Work and Pensions want to improve and refine their plans by consulting on certain measures as described within this paper.
The consultation can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/pathways-to-work-reforming-benefits-and-support-to-get-britain-working-green-paper?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=43870569-74d5-4bec-aa32-9273846a5272&utm_content=daily.
Closing date for responses is 30 June 2025.
This consultation sought views on the Scottish Government’s proposed approach to mitigate the two-child cap policy applied by the UK Government. The two-child cap restricts support through Universal Credit (UC) to the first two children in a family except in some limited circumstances. The consultation paper sets out more fully the proposed approach which intended to deliver mitigation payments at pace and in line with the Scottish social security principles.
The Scottish Government proposed to mitigate the two-child cap in Scotland by making a flat-rate payment equal to the UC child element for each third and subsequent child in Scotland.
Mitigation of the two-child cap is not a straightforward task. It will require significant policy and technical work to develop and implement an appropriate solution. This includes co-operation from the UK Government around systems development, data sharing and legislation. The technical delivery of the mitigation must carefully consider risks, issues and dependencies such as data sharing with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The Social Security Programme commenced the ‘discovery’ phase of the project, which will impact delivery options, including joint work with DWP to agree, build and test additional data sharing functions and create a joint delivery plan.
The responses to this consultation, alongside the outputs of that discovery process, will inform the Sco
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