Thousands of Scots were forced to apply for Crisis Grants last year due to delay in receiving their benefits, new figures show.
254,000 individual households have been supported through the Scottish Welfare Fund since it began in April 2013 to end of March 2017. Of the 165,000 applications for crisis grants in the past year 17,500 were due to a delay in benefit payments.
The shocking figures come as the UK government continues to roll out universal credit, which has a six week wait for the first payment.
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