This is the sixth brief in our General Election Series, supported by the Nuffield Foundation. This time, we discuss the UK and Scottish social security systems, including which benefits are devolved and which are reserved, how the two systems interact, and what the parties have said so far.
Authors
Mairi is the Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute. Previously, she was the Deputy Chief Executive of the Scottish Fiscal Commission and the Head of National Accounts at the Scottish Government and has over a decade of experience working in different areas of statistics and analysis.
Hannah is a Fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute. She specialises in applied social policy analysis with a focus on social security, poverty and inequality, labour supply, and immigration.