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.
Since the scheme began in April 2013, most funds have been directed to Community Care Grants in almost every quarter, although, even before the advent of the Covid pandemic, there was a general increase in the proportion of money being advanced via Crisis Grants (Chart 16).
It has been seen that Crisis Grant awards increased during periods of high Covid infections, most notably in the early part of the pandemic where more than two-thirds of SWF payments were to Crisis Grants. Latterly, this may be related to periods of self-isolation for people who didn’t qualify for Self-isolation Support Grants, but may more widely be related to support required for people whose earnings had fallen.
Chart 14: Proportion of SWF spend by scheme – Quarterly
This chart shows the time series of the proportion of expenditure going to each SWF scheme since April 2018.
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