# The Welfare Funds (Scotland) Regulations 2016, Regulation 13: Decisions on fund applications


(1) Every decision on a fund application is to be communicated to the applicant in writing, unless the applicant requests otherwise.
(2) A local authority is to make its decision on an application for a crisis grant—
(a) immediately after the authority has received all information allowing a decision to be made; and
(b) in any event, no later than the end of the next working day.
(3) A local authority is to make its decision on an application for a community care grant no later than the end of the fifteenth working day after that on which the authority has received all information allowing a decision to be made.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111030332/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-funds-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-13
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