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Archived publications

Our statistics publications are separated into three sections:

  • Social Security Scotland benefits
  • Department for Work and Pensions benefits
  • Statistics about our organisation and how it works

More information on how we create and use statistics can be found on our About Statistics page.

Social Security Scotland benefits

Adult Disability Payment

Adult Disability Payment is extra money to help you if you have a disability or long-term health condition that affects your everyday life.

Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods

Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods are payments that help towards the costs of being pregnant or looking after a child.

Carer Support Payment and Carer Allowance Supplement

Carer Support Payment is money to help you if you’re a carer. Carer Support Payment became available across Scotland from November 2024. This benefit replaces Carer’s Allowance in Scotland.

Carer's Allowance Supplement is an extra payment for people in Scotland who get Carer Support Payment or Carer's Allowance on a particular date.

Child Disability Payment

Child Disability Payment provides support for the extra costs that a disabled child might have.

Child Disability Payment replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children and young people living in Scotland.

Child Winter Heating Payment

Child Winter Heating Payment used to be called Child Winter Heating Assistance.

It’s a payment to help disabled children and young people and their families with increased heating costs over winter.

Funeral Support Payment

Funeral Support Payment helps pay for funeral costs if you live in Scotland.

Job Start Payment

Pension Age Disability Payment

Pension Age Disability Payment is a replacement for Attendance Allowance in
Scotland.

It provides money to support older people who have a disability or long-term health
condition.

Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance

Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance is the replacement for Disability Living Allowance for all adults in Scotland.

Scottish Child Payment

Scottish Child Payment helps towards the costs of supporting a family.

Young Carer Grant

Young Carer Grant is a yearly payment for young carers in Scotland aged 16, 17, and 18.

Winter Heating Payment

Winter Heating Payment provides consistent and dependable annual support to assist low-income households with their heating expenses each winter. This includes older people, disabled people and families who are responsible for children under the age of five or disabled children.

Department for Work and Pensions benefits

Benefits for carers and disability assistance

We publish the Scottish statistics on Carer's Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Severe Disablement Allowance.

Personal Independence Payment

We publish the Scottish statistics on Personal Independence Payment every 3 months.

Statistics about our organisation and how it works

Analytical performance report

Annual summary of our performance

Client diversity and equalities analysis

Information on client diversity and equality.

Official Error Statistics

Estimates of the monetary value of official error overpayments and underpayments. Figures are based on random samples of cases in payment, assessed for official error (errors made by Social Security Scotland) using a desk-based review process.

Social Security Scotland feedback statistics

Statistics about complaints, compliments and suggestions.

Telephony and Webchat Management Information

Management Information about Telephony and Webchat.

Workforce information

Information about our workforce.

Individual Clients Paid

Statistics about the number of individual clients paid.

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