New emergency measures have been announced to help people in Scotland struggling financially to get through the coronavirus crisis.
An additional £5 million is now available to local authorities through Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP), to support tenants who are under severe financial pressures.
The impact of lockdown has seen some 8.4 million workers across the UK placed on furlough leave while others have taken a reduction in salary or been made redundant.
From March 13 until May 19, there have been a total of 2.9 million applications for Universal Credit, according to the latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).