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Scottish Welfare Fund: statutory guidance – March 2021
An update to the Scottish Welfare Fund statutory guidance, previously published in May 2019, to correct any inaccuracies or anachronisms which have occurred since the previous publication. This guidance was updated in April 2024 to remove two sections ‘Family Reunion Crisis Grant’ and ‘Covid-19 Self-Isolation Support Grants’.
Annex C - Factors That Might Increase The Vulnerability Of An Applicant
Some examples of factors that could contribute to a vulnerability which would give an application higher priority are set out below. This is not an exhaustive list and should not be used rigidly as a prioritisation list.
- Frailty or old age, particularly restricted mobility or difficulty performing personal care tasks
- Learning difficulties
- Poor literacy or numeracy skills
- Mental health issues
- Physical impairment or disability, including sensory impairments
- Chronic illnesses
- Terminal illnesses
- Addictions or misuse of alcohol, drugs or other substances
- Being an person with a conviction
- People fleeing domestic abuse
- People facing non-domestic abuse
- Being a young person affected by the UK Government's changes, from 1 April 2017, to entitlement to housing costs within Universal Credit for 18-21 year olds
- Being a young person leaving local authority care or a special residential school
- Being a young person who does not have parents or is unable to live with their parents because it would put them in danger or they have become estranged
- Looking after children for a relative or friend as a kinship carer
- Being a lone parent
- Children living with young parents aged under 25
- Children living with a disabled adult
- Children living in a large family with three or more children
- Experiencing separation, relationship or family breakdown
- Being a family who has been judged to be facing exceptional pressure
- Being pregnant, recent childbirth or adopting a child
- Having responsibility as a main care giver
- Homelessness, or repeated homelessness or under threat of homelessness
- Repeated failed tenancies
- Having an unsettled way of life (living in hostels, sofa-surfing, not having your own address)
- Experiencing eviction or re-possession
- Experiencing redundancy
- Leaving the armed forces
- A history of insecure work
- Being recently bereaved (immediate/close family member/spouse/partner)
- Being a Refugee
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Email: swfqueries@gov.scot
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