Spending on crisis grants up 56% in final three months of 2020
Crisis grant payments made in December 2020 were the second highest on record (Jane Barlow/PA)
Hard-up Scots received more than £4.8 million in emergency payments to help them with costs such as food and heating in the final three months of last year.
The amount given out in crisis grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund in the month of December alone was £1,702,374 – the second highest total recorded since the scheme was set up eight years ago.
The only time this has been higher was at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown in April 2020, when payments amounted to £2,528,902.
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