# Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, Section 36: Short-term assistance


(1) Short-term assistance is assistance (which may or may not take the form of money) given by the Scottish Ministers under section 24 to an individual on a short-term basis.
(2) The Scottish Ministers are to make regulations prescribing—
(a) the eligibility rules that are to be applied to determine whether an individual is entitled to short-term assistance, and
(b) what short-term assistance an individual who is entitled to it is to be given.
(3) Schedule 10 makes provision about the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-36
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