Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 31 March 2026
The annual update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for 2025-26. This includes annual statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis grants from 2013, as well as quarterly breakdowns from 2021.
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In the latest year, over half of all awards have gone to single person households (59%, and over a quarter to single parent households (27%) (Table 65a, Chart 13). In comparison, the latest household estimates for Scotland indicate that 38% of households are occupied by a single person. Under a quarter of Scottish Welfare Fund awards have gone to couples, couples with children or other types of household (15%), whereas over half of households in Scotland are estimated to fall into these categories. In total around a third (34%) awards have gone to households containing children.
Chart 13: Household types of households receiving funds from the Scottish Welfare Fund to March 2026
This is a chart showing a time series of the distribution of SWF funds split by household type since April 2021.