Calculation of assets
The Committee heard that the way savings, assets, income and outgoings are calculated ignores the nuance of what victims/survivors actually have access to.SPICe analysis of the call for views
Examples of the impact of means testing in the context of domestic abuse were provided to Members during the lived experience engagement. For example, the Committee heard from a woman who had to use savings to pay for legal fees that had been set aside for kinship care arrangements, and from another woman whose depletion of savings meant she had no money left to purchase clothes for her children.Key themes from lived experience engagement with members of Scottish Women's Aid Survivor Reference Group: 26 March