The Social Fund and Local Welfare Assistance
[ch 3: page 32]The Social Fund is a government scheme providing help for one-off or occasional expenses that people on low incomes find difficult to meet.
There are a number of Social Fund benefits including:
• Budgeting Loans
• Cold weather payments
• Funeral payments (see also Chapter 8)
• Short-term benefit advances
• Sure Start Maternity Grant (see page 50)