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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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Over the lifetime of the scheme, most funds have been directed to Community Care Grants in almost every quarter, although there has been a general increase in the proportion of money spent on Crisis Grants (Chart 14).
Since Covid, there have been regular peaks in or around January each year where money directed to Crisis Grants is comparable to that spent on Community Care Grants.
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 2021.