Which benefits and tax credits can a client claim
The table below gives a non-exhaustive overview of the possible benefits and tax credits to which a client may be entitled depending on their circumstances. More than one circumstance may apply to a particular client (eg, they may have a child, a disability, a mortgage and work part-time), in which case you should refer to all relevant headings.
Circumstance | Potential benefits and tax credits |
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Bereaved | Bereavement support payment |
| Funeral support payment |
| Statutory parental bereavement pay |
Carer | Carer’s allowance or carer support payment |
| Universal credit with a carer element |
| Income support (existing awards only) |
| Young carer grant |
Responsible for a child | Child tax credit Universal credit with a child element(s) |
| Child benefit |
| Guardian’s allowance |
| Scottish child payment |
| Statutory maternity pay |
| Statutory paternity pay |
| Statutory shared parental pay |
| Statutory adoption pay |
| Maternity allowance |
| Health benefits |
| Best Start grant |
| Best Start foods |
Disabled | Personal independence payment Adult disability payment |
| Disability living allowance Child disability payment |
| Attendance allowance Pension age disability payment |
| Industrial injuries benefits |
Pensioner | Retirement pension |
| Pension credit Universal credit (in some cases where your partner is not yet pension age) |
| Winter fuel payment Pension age winter heating payment |
Pregnant | Statutory maternity pay |
| Maternity allowance |
| Health benefits |
| Best Start grant Best Start foods |
Paying rent | Universal credit |
| Housing benefit (existing awards and certain types of housing only) |
| Discretionary housing payments |
Sick and unable to work | Contributory employment and support allowance Income-related employment and support allowance (existing awards only) |
| Statutory sick pay |
| Universal credit |
Unemployed and seeking work | Contributory jobseeker’s allowance Income-based jobseeker’s allowance (existing claims only) |
| Universal credit |
Unemployed and not seeking work | Universal credit |
| Income support (existing claims only) |
Working, but on a low income | Universal credit |
| Working tax credit |
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