The publication presents: changes in the size of the population of beneficiaries of social assistance and their households, as well as the scale of benefiting from this assistance along with its regional differentiation; the population of beneficiaries and their households, including single-person households in 2021, with numerous references to the beginning of the 2012–2021 decade; poor beneficiaries of social assistance and their households; the problem of sustainability of benefiting from social assistance and changes in the population of households with children in connection with the introduction of child-raising benefit in 2016.

Moreover, for the first time, recipients of main types of social assistance benefits and their demographic characteristics were presented.