Benefits Claims (Removal of Back-dating) To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Department for Work and Pensions’ removal of the protected date of claim guarantees, which previously allowed councils and Citizens Advice Scotland to back-date benefits claims of their clients to the start of the application process rather than the final submission date. (S5O-03192) That is yet another area in which there are great concerns over universal credit and its effect on people in Scotland.