Scottish Government

Services

• Acting on behalf of someone applying for benefits

  Appointees, representatives

• Add a porch to your house

  Information on whether you'll need planning permission to build a porch.

• Add an access ramp to your house

  Find out if you need to apply for planning permission to build an access ramp to your door.

• Add an extension to your house

  Find out whether your planned extension needs planning permission.

• Add decking to your house

  Information on whether you need planning permission to add decking or a platform to the outside of your home.

• Adult Disability Payment

  Apply, payments, decisions, extra support

• Adult Disability Payment consultations

  Practitioners, support, accessibility, after your consultation

• Adult Disability Payment satisfaction survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• After the verdict: victims and witnesses

  What happens after a verdict at court, including information on sentencing, appeals and the Victim Notification Scheme.

• Apply for Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)

  Apply for financial support to study at school or college if you're aged 16 to 19 and from a low income household.

• Apply for Scotland's Redress Scheme

  Find out more about applying for Scotland's Redress Scheme and how to get help and support.

• Apply to lease an accessible vehicle

  How it works, how to apply

• Approved certification

  Information on Approved Certifiers for Design and Construction.

• Attach something to or alter the outside of your flat

  See if you need planning permission to add something to the wall outside your flat.

• Attach something to or alter the outside of your house

  See which additions to the external surface of your home need planning permission.

• Automated decision making

  Result, benefits

• Best Start Foods and Best Start Grant survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Best Start Foods, Best Start Grant and Scottish Child Payment survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Breastfeeding and your business

  Find out the law around breastfeeding and how to become a breastfeeding friendly business.

• Build a gate, fence or wall around your flat

  Check to see if you need planning permission to build or improve a structure around your flat.

• Build a gate, fence or wall around your house

  Find out if you need planning permission to build a boundary around your home

• Build a shed, garage or greenhouse at your house

  Information on the permitted development rules for an ancillary building.

• Building regulations

  Information on what the building regulations are and how to follow them when doing building or conversion work.

• Building standards for homeowners

  Find out what you need to do to meet building standards in Scotland.

• Building, engineering and installation work at your house

  Information on planning permission for adding installations such as swimming pools or free-standing solar panels.

• Carer Support Payment client survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Carer's Allowance Supplement

  Payments, other benefits, support

• Carer's Allowance Supplement survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Carer’s Allowance changes in Scotland

  Payments, reviews, other benefits

• Child Disability Payment

  Payments, apply, support

• Child Disability Payment survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Child maintenance if one parent lives abroad

  What to do if you need to get child maintenance and one of you lives outside Scotland.

• Complain about Social Security Scotland

  Process, who can complain, examples

• Drink-drive limit in Scotland

  Scotland's drink-drive limit, the law, getting home safely, and alternative alcohol-free nights out.

• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

  Find out about Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) in your area.

• Extra support if you get a disability payment

  Carers, housing, transport, travel

• Find business events

  Find and register for business events, workshops, seminars and conferences in Scotland.

• Find the air quality in your area

  Check to see how clean the air is in your area.

• Get a wheelchair from the ShopMobility scheme

  Find out how to borrow a manual or powered wheelchair or a powered scooter through the ShopMobility scheme.

• Getting a building warrant

  Find out how to apply for a building warrant.

• Getting help to buy your home

  Information on Scottish Government schemes to help you buy a new home.

• Getting planning permission

  If you want to carry out building work you may need planning permission.

• Healthcare for UK nationals living in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein

  Information on healthcare for UK nationals living in the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein.

• Help after the death of a partner

  What you need to do and what help you can get after the death of your husband, wife or partner.

• Help to Buy (Scotland) Affordable New Build scheme

  Information on how to get financial help from the Scottish Government when buying a new build home.

• Help to return a child taken abroad without consent

  Getting help if your child is taken abroad without your consent.

• Help with a legal problem

  Who can help you if you need advice about a legal problem, such as debt, housing, benefits, employment, divorce or claims for money.

• How to report a possible abuse of your human rights

  If you feel your human rights have been abused, there are many ways you can report it.

• If you cannot afford to pay your mortgage

  Get advice and take steps to help you stay in your home.

• Illegal drugs and driving in Scotland

  It's a crime to drive if you've taken illegal drugs or if you're unfit through any drug. Find out the law around illegal drugs and driving.

• Job Start Payment survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Lay a hard surface outside your house

  Find out if you need planning permission to lay a hard surface like paving around your home.

• Letting Agents who have been removed from the Register

  A list of Letting Agents who have been removed from the Register because their registration has expired or they are no longer carrying out letting agency work.

• Letting agent registration

  Find out how to register as a letting agent, including information on the Code of Practice.

• Letting agent registration updates

  Keep up to date with letting agent registration requirements.

• Miscarriage of justice: apply for compensation

  You can apply for compensation if you’ve been wrongfully convicted of or charged with a crime.

• Mother and Baby Unit Family Fund

  The Mother and Baby Unit Family Fund helps with the cost of travel and food if you're visiting someone in a Mother and Baby Unit.

• New Supply Shared Equity scheme

  How to get help to buy a newly built home by sharing the cost with the Scottish Government

• Non-domestic rates relief

  Find out about the non-domestic rates reliefs (discounts) available in Scotland, including the Small Business Bonus Scheme, and how to apply.

• Offer a home to someone from Ukraine

  Apply to the Homes for Ukraine Super Sponsor Scheme

• Open Market Shared Equity scheme

  How to get help to buy a home on the open market by sharing the cost with the Scottish Government

• Pardons and disregards for convictions for sexual activity between men

  Find out how you can have a historical conviction for same-sex sexual activity removed from your records.

• Payments, grants and discounts to help with energy bills

  Grants, payments, benefits, discounts

• Planning your own funeral

  How to plan your own funeral, including your funeral wishes, funeral payment plans and where to keep the information.

• Prescription drugs and driving in Scotland

  It's a crime to drive if you're over the limits for certain prescription or illegal drugs or you're unfit because you've taken any drug. Find out the law around prescription drugs and driving.

• Register agricultural land

  You must register your agricultural land if you want to claim rural funding from the Scottish Government.

• Roof additions and alterations to your house

  Find out whether you need planning permission to add a dormer to your roof and gain extra space.

• Rural and Islands Housing Fund

  Information about the Rural and Islands Housing Fund, including who can apply and how to apply.

• Scaffolding rules

  The rules for putting up scaffolding on your property - licence, checks, safety, builder, scaffold companies

• ScotAccount

  Information about ScotAccount, including how to set up and use your ScotAccount and how to verify your identity.

• Scottish Child Payment survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Search for business funding or advice

  Search for business funding, including grant and loan options available in Scotland.

• Set up and run a limited liability partnership (LLP)

  Setting up an LLP so you can run a business with 2 or more members - registration, LLP agreement, members and their responsibilities.

• Set up and run a limited partnership

  Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.

• Set up as a sole trader

  Register as a sole trader and find out your legal responsibilities if you run a business as a self-employed sole trader.

• Shared Ownership

  How to share the cost of a new home with a housing association if you can't afford to buy it outright.

• Shared equity for older people

  Information on getting help to buy your home if you're aged 60 or over.

• Short-term Assistance

  Payments, re-determination, apply

• Smacking and children

  From 7 November 2020 all forms of physical punishment or physical discipline of children is against the law in Scotland.

• Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey for Funeral Support Payment

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Starting a business from your home

  Information on starting a business from your home including setting up a home office, planning permission, title deeds, health and safety, trading standards and waste management.

• Survey for Pension Age Disability Payment

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• Tell us your views about challenging a decision made by Social Security Scotland

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Survey for challenging a decision and how to complete it.

• Third party authorisation form

  Use this form to authorise someone to speak to Social Security Scotland on your behalf.

• When you need a licence to copy a creative work

  Find out if you need a licence to copy a creative work, find out if a work is covered by copyright or an exception.

• Works that are allowed through permitted development

  Find out whether the building work you want to carry out needs planning permission.

• Young Carer Grant survey

  Find out about the Social Security Scotland Satisfaction Survey and how to complete it.

• myaccount

  myaccount lets you use some online public services using one account. Find out how to register, sign in or get help with myaccount.