Social assistance

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In 2019, the social assistance rate remained unchanged at 3.2%.

The social assistance rate has not changed much in recent years. The same applies to the main groups at risk. Persons without post-compulsory education, children, foreign nationals, single-parent families and persons living alone have a higher risk of having to resort to social assistance.

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The Swiss social assistance statistics comprises three coordinated statistical components:

• The inventory of social assistance in a broader sense catalogues all social assistance benefits in a broader sense
• The financial statistics of social assistance in a broader sense records expenditure on these social benefits.
• The statistics on social assistance recipients records all beneficiaries.

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