4. Benefits and tax credits if a child is looked after

This section applies if you are a kinship carer and you are caring for a child living with you because:

•of a supervision order or interim supervision order under the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011; or
•the local authority has placed the child with you under section 25 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995; or
•there is a permanence order in respect of the child under Part II of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007; or
•the child is looked after by the local authority for some other reason – eg, there is a child protection order in place.

It can be important to know what type of payment the local authority is making and what it is for (see here). Ask your local authority to provide details in writing of the type of payment, in particular what legal power it is using to make the payment, and what it is for.