Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 31 December 2023

Since April 2013, there have been 34,550 Tier 1 reviews for Community Care Grants and 50,400 reviews for Crisis Grants (Table 33). Fewer than half of decisions were revised for Community Care Grants (47%) and Crisis Grants (41%) (Table 34).

Since April 2013, 75% of Tier 1 reviews for Community Care Grants have been made within the 15 working day target, while 86% of Tier 1 reviews for Crisis Grants have been made within the two working day target (Table 35).