Written Evidence Jun. 21 2023
Committee: Health and Social Care Committee (Department: Department of Health and Social Care)Found: PSNC, soon to be re-named Community Pharmacy England, promotes and supports the interests of all NHS
Written Evidence Jul. 17 2023
Inquiry: Speaker's ConferenceFound: to my earlier reference to Members not wishing to be seen as a “top spender” In relation to overtime
Jun. 17 2009
Source Page: NHS resilience and business continuity management guidance: interim strategic national guidance for NHS organisations. Incl annexes. 82 p.Found: NHS resilience and business continuity management guidance: interim strategic national guidance for NHS
Feb. 29 2024
Source Page: Supplementary evidence to pay review bodies: hospital and community health sector, 2024Found: Contents Contents for supplementary data to support NHS pay review bodies Sheet Sheet content Notes Notes
Found: NHS England’s modelling for the Long Term Workforce Plan
Submissions
Inquiry: Policing and mental healthFound: A number of my colleagues also worked an overtime shift advertised in an email at Rate 2, this shift
Jul. 06 2009
Source Page: Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC) for 2008/09. Inc completion notes. 37 p.Found: Organisations and Foundation TrustsC (NHS)Compulsory for all NHS Organisations but Non-Compulsory for
Dec. 17 2023
Source Page: Humza Yousaf's meetings with NHS Lothian: FOI releaseFound: Humza Yousaf's meetings with NHS Lothian: FOI release
Asked by: MacGregor, Fulton (Scottish National Party - Coatbridge and Chryston)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what action NHS Scotland can take to ensure that any one-off payments made to its staff, in recognition of their work, do not have a negative impact on any housing benefit entitlement that results in them receiving no net increase in their income.
Answered by Matheson, Michael - Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
Housing Benefit has been replaced by Universal Credit in all but a small number of specific circumstances. Recipients of Universal Credit need to notify their Work Coach of any additional income in a given monthly assessment period. A person’s income could increase, for instance, if they did additional hours or overtime in that period. Most recently, NHS Scotland staff received a one-off additional payment in their April salaries as part of the 2023-24 Agenda for Change pay settlement.
Additional income reduces or stops Universal Credit but it is important to stress that everyone should be better off overall as the taper rate is 55%, so for every pound in extra payments, the person keeps 45 pence. Universal Credit will then increase or begin again if someone’s income reduces in the next assessment period unless, for instance, the higher income represented by the substantive part of the NHS Scotland pay settlement places them above the qualifying criteria for Universal Credit.
Spreading the one-off payment over multiple months was considered at the time the 2023-24 Agenda for Change pay settlement was negotiated. However, it was not clear this would provide any advantage to the lower paid and indeed it may be more helpful to get the payment within one assessment period and return to a steady state following that.
Mentions:
1: None increases were driven by people suffering poor health after Covid, increasing waiting lists in the NHS - Speech Link
2: None rate.It comes back to the conversation that we have had: if someone is thinking about whether to work overtime - Speech Link
3: None They do not have those choices.When I was on the NHS pay review body, we talked with nurses who were - Speech Link