This chapter covers the general rules for most benefits. See the chapter about the benefit you are getting for the specific rules about that benefit. This chapter does not cover the rules for Scottish benefits (see Chapter
79 and the chapter about the benefit you are claiming), statutory sick pay (see Chapter
39), statutory maternity, adoption, paternity, shared parental and parental bereavement pay (see Chapter
38), social fund payments (see Chapter
37), the health benefits in Chapter
31, the other types of financial help in Chapter
40 or discretionary housing payments (see Chapter
29). For information about payment of tax credits, see Chapter
64.