Publications

This is the publication of Funeral Support Payment statistics. It covers payments made to 30 June 2024. It includes analysis of payments by client age, local authority, qualifying benefit, application method and month. It also includes breakdown of applications by outcome and month, channel and processing times.

This Official Statistics publication presents quarterly data on the Social Security Scotland’s workforce.

Our Business Plan sets out what we will deliver. The main focus of the Business Plan is our key activities for the year ahead. These are set out as ‘priorities’, with each ‘priority’ detailing what will be delivered to ensure that we continue to make progress against our commitments. More information about our commitments and objectives is available in our Corporate Plan. The Business Plan also includes some information on how we will report on each ‘priority’ and how we will measure the quality of the service we provide to our clients.

Our Corporate Plan sets out what we will do to deliver on our responsibilities in the future. It shows how our service will look over the next three years and outlines the objectives we have set ourselves to get us there.

This report presents the results from the Social Security Scotland Disability Payments Client Survey. Fieldwork ran from 7 May to 3 June 2024.