Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 31 December 2024
The quarterly update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for October to December 2024. This includes quarterly statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis Grants from 2019 onwards.
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During October to December 2024, decisions were made on 19,890 Community Care Grant applications with an acceptance rate of 44% (Tables 12 and 14, and Chart 6) and decisions were made on 56,600 Crisis Grant applications with an acceptance rate of 63% (Tables 15 and 17, and Chart 7).
Chart 6: Community Care Grant and Crisis Grant acceptance rates – Quarterly
This chart shows the time series of the rate of CCG and Crisis awards per quarter since April 2019.
Local authorities awarded 8,825 Community Care Grants, 1,390 (14%) fewer than October to December 2023 (Table 13, Chart 7) and 35,535 Crisis Grants, 1,360 (4%) fewer than October to December 2023 (Table 16, Chart 7).
Chart 7: Number of Scottish Welfare Fund Awards – Scotland – Monthly
This chart shows the time series of the number of CCG and Crisis awards per month since April 2019.