When must I submit a Scottish social security appeal?

The ordinary appeal application period is 31 days beginning with actual notification under section 44 or 45. The completed statutory form must reach Scottish Ministers. Later permission and the qualified one-year bar use separate provisions.

Responsible actor. Individual challenging the relevant assistance determination.

Identify actual section 44 redetermination notification or section 45 notification of appeal rights after failure.

Use a competent section 46 appeal and the correct notification branch. Scottish Ministers must receive the form completed as required. Posting or tribunal arrival alone does not make the application.

Confirm the actual source event, exact branch, current regime and completion route. Only the established ordinary period is calculated.

1. Count the notification day as day one. The ordinary endpoint is 30 calendar days later.
2. Confirm the actual statutory or tribunal completion route and its cutoff.

Count the notification day as day one. The ordinary endpoint is 30 calendar days later.

Count calendar days. No automatic weekend, holiday or discretionary extension is inferred. Check the actual completion route and cutoff; earlier action may be necessary.

Fictitious example

Fictional facts. actual section 44 redetermination notification or section 45 notification of appeal rights after failure is established as Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Selected branch. The individual was informed of the redetermination under section44 branch applies. All ordinary source conditions and the actual completion route are established.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

Source condition 1

This is a competent appeal under section 46 after redetermination or a failure to redetermine. The selected statutory notification branch applies.

Source condition 2

I established the actual section 44 or 45 notification to the individual. A letter date or later correspondence does not automatically replace that event.

Source condition 3

The provided appeal form must be completed as required and received by Scottish Ministers under sections 47 and 48. Tribunal receipt or posting alone is not substituted.

Source condition 4

The ordinary current period applies. No different statutory period, direction, extension, suspension or late permission changes this calculation.

• Confirm the actual source event, exact branch, current regime and completion route. Only the established ordinary period is calculated.
• Related procedures have different actors, events and periods. This result does not replace a different appeal, review, notice-form or application requirement.

• This is a competent appeal under section 46 after redetermination or a failure to redetermine. The selected statutory notification branch applies.
• I established the actual section 44 or 45 notification to the individual. A letter date or later correspondence does not automatically replace that event.
• The provided appeal form must be completed as required and received by Scottish Ministers under sections 47 and 48. Tribunal receipt or posting alone is not substituted.
• The ordinary current period applies. No different statutory period, direction, extension, suspension or late permission changes this calculation.
• Use a competent section 46 appeal and the correct notification branch. Scottish Ministers must receive the form completed as required. Posting or tribunal arrival alone does not make the application.