Children's Handbook Scotland 2020/21Chapter 1: Benefits and tax credits12. Housing benefit Who can get housing benefit
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Who can get housing benefit
If you are not in the UC system, you qualify for HB if:1s130 SSCBA 1992; s115 IAA 1999; reg 10 HB Regs; reg 10 HB(SPC) Regs
    •you or your partner are liable to pay rent on the dwelling you occupy as your home; and
    •you are not in a category that is excluded from HB (see here); and
    •you satisfy the ‘habitual residence test’, including having a ‘right to reside’, and are not a ’person subject to immigration control’. These terms are explained in CPAG’s Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook; and
    •you and your partner have savings of £16,000 or less, unless you are on guarantee credit of pension credit (PC), in which case your capital is not taken into account; and
    •your income is sufficiently low.
 
1     s130 SSCBA 1992; s115 IAA 1999; reg 10 HB Regs; reg 10 HB(SPC) Regs »