Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: annual update 2023-24

The annual update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for 2023-24. This includes annual statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis grants from 2013, as well as quarterly breakdowns from 2018.


In the most recent quarter, more than a third of awards were made to households with children, and this has been the case in almost every quarter. Overall during 2023-24, the proportion was 36%.

Chart 13: Household types of households receiving funds from the Scottish Welfare Fund 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2024

This is a chart showing a time series of the distribution of SWF funds split by household type since April 2018.

Chart 13

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