The publication describes: changes in the size of the population of beneficiaries of social assistance and the scale of benefiting from this assistance including regional differentiation of its range; the group of beneficiaries of social assistance in 2018, with numerous references to the beginning of the decade 2009–2018; poor beneficiaries of social assistance; households of beneficiaries of social assistance including regional differentiation of their range; poor beneficiaries' households; single-person households; the problem of permanence of benefiting from social assistance.

Moreover, the topic of beneficiaries of social welfare taking over poverty was described for the first time, and changes in basic demographic, social and economic structures of social assistance beneficiaries and their households in 2018 were compared with 2009.