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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Update to 30 September 2018

​7 February 2019: ​the titles for Charts 9 and 12 have been corrected on the contents page of the tables and charts excel file. The data and charts themselves are unaffected.

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Annual Update 2017/18

Corrected 12 September 2018 at 1730: Underspend from 2014/15 to 2017/18 was calculated incorrectly in Table 40. This in turn affected the calculation of available budget for 2015/16 to 2018/19 in Tables 40, 41 and 42, estimated monthly expenditure for 2017/18 in Table 41 and Chart 10, and proportion of budget spent for 2017/18 in Table 42 and Chart 9. These figures have now been corrected in the Excel tables, charts and in this publication. A document comparing the original and corrected underspent and proportion of budget spent figures has also been published.

The previous version of the publication also incorrectly used a crisis grant target processing time of two working days. Two working days was the original time frame for processing crisis grants, however this was changed to the end of the next working day with effect from April 2016. Tables 16,17, and 18 and Chart 8 have now been corrected to reflect the correct target processing time, along with commentary in this publication.

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Comparison between original and corrected underspend figures

Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Update to 31 December 2017

Revised 25 April 2018 at 1730: Expenditure from July to September 2017 was incorrectly used in tables 12 and 15, rather than expenditure from October to December 2017. This in turn affected the calculation of average award values in tables 12 and 15. Updated figures are found in the Decisions, awards and expenditure section of the main body of the publication (p.10) and in tables 12 & 15 of the excel tables document.

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Update to 30 September 2017

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Quarterly to 31 December 2016

Revised 2 May 2017 at 1000: The number of Tier 2 Crisis Grants (Table 37) that were revised and upheld were incorrect, the updated figures can now be seen in table 37 of the excel document.

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Quarterly to 30 September 2016

Revised 9 February 2017 at 1000: Total Scottish Welfare Fund budget allocations (including admin funding) were incorrectly used in tables 25 & 26, rather than Scottish Welfare Fund budget allocations (excluding admin budget). Updated figures are found in the Expenditure and Awards section of the main body of the publication (p.7) and in Tables 25 & 26 and Chart 12 of the excel document.

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Quarterly to 30 June 2016

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Quarterly to 31 December 2015

Revisions - 27 April 2016

The table of contents in the Excel workbook has been corrected to refer to the correct date ranges.  This change affects none of the figues in the publication, tables or charts.

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: 2014/15

28 July 2015

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Quarterly to 31 December 2014

28 April 2015

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Quarterly to 30 September 2014

27 January 2015

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: Quarterly to 30 June 2014

21 October 2014

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: 2013-14

Revised 18 July 2014

Chart 12 and Chart 13 have been re-drawn following an error in their creation. None of the underlying data is affected.

15 July 2014

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: 1 April to 31 December 2013

Revised at 15 April 2014 at 10:10

The year in the column heading for six tables has been corrected. (See Tables 1 to 3 and Tables 18 to 20). The year was showing as 2014 but it has been corrected to 2013.

15 April 2014

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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: 1 April to 30 September 2013

11 February 2014

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SCOTTISH WELFARE FUND: Introduction of the Welfare Funds (Scotland) Bill – June 2014

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Summary

​23 July 2018 - Analysis to answer a request for Scottish Welfare Fund expenditure by gender of main applicant

02 Feb 2016 - Analysis to answer the following request:

1.       How many households have been assessed as being in fuel poverty in each year since 2010/11? Please break this down by:

  a.       Council households

  b.      Any other type of households within the council area (privately rented, privately owned, etc.)

2.       How many households have made a request for assistance with payments towards their fuel and heating bills in each year since 2010/11? Please break this down by

  a.       Council households

  b.      Any other type of households within the council area (privately rented, privately owned, etc.)

 3.       What are the 5 main reasons that a household makes a request for such assistance?     

4.       What type of assistance is provided to households by the council for heating and fuel costs?  (This information is not held centrally).

5.       How much money has the council spent towards financial assistance with fuel and heating bills for households within the council area in each year since 2010/11?    Please break this down by:

  a.       Council households

  b.      Any other type of households within the council area (privately rented, privately owned, etc.)

02 Feb 2016 - Analysis to answer the following request:

How much money has the Council spent in each year since 2007/08 to different forms of financial assistance? Please provide a break down by:

a)     Numbers of council tenants assisted via Scottish Welfare Fund

b)    The amount of financial awards granted for these tenants.

Ad hoc request looking for the following information:

Q1. Since 1 April 2013, how many people leaving prison have been successful in obtaining a grant through the Scottish Welfare Fund administered by each local authority? Figures showing how much was paid for Crisis Grants and Community Care Grants are broken down separately.

Q2. How much was provided by the Scottish Welfare Fund to these successful applicants?

Q3. What was the highest sum provided to successful applicants?

Question S4W-19889: Jackie Baillie, Dumbarton, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 21/02/2014
 
To ask the Scottish Government how many people receiving grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund are repeat applicants.

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website

Question S4W-19888: Jackie Baillie, Dumbarton, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 21/02/2014

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of people that had a grant application for the Scottish Welfare Fund rejected was referred to other agencies for assistance.

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website

Question S4W-19887: Jackie Baillie, Dumbarton, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 21/02/2014

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of people receiving grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund was referred to other agencies for assistance.

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website

Question S4W-19886: Jackie Baillie, Dumbarton, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 21/02/2014

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the Scottish Welfare Fund has been paid out (a) in cash and (b) as goods and what the value was of the goods.

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website

Answer available on the Scottish Parliament website