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• 16-19-year-olds
  • child benefit
    1. Who counts as a qualifying young person
  • council tax
    1. Under 20 in further education
  • education maintenance allowance
    1. Education maintenance allowance
  • health benefits
    1. Under age 19
  • UC
    1. Students
• 16-21-year-olds
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
• 25 or under
  • free dental treatment
    1. Under age 26
• 26 or over
  • health benefits
    1. Age 26 or over
• 16/17-year-olds
  • child benefit
    1. Who counts as a qualifying young person
  • UC
    1. Who can claim universal credit
• academic years
  1. 3. Dividing student income throughout the year
• actively seeking work
  • JSA
    1. Studying and availability for work
    2. 3. Basic rules
• additional support needs for learning allowance
  1. Additional support needs for learning allowance (ASNLA)
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• adoption
  • benefits
    1. Chapter 9: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
• adult disability payment
  1. Chapter 1: Adult disability payment
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming adult disability payment
  • daily living component
    1. Daily living component
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • full-time students
    1. Students
  • limited capability for work
    1. 3. Limited capability for work
  • mobility component
    1. Mobility component
  • part-time students
    1. Students
  • payment
    1. 4. Claiming adult disability payment
  • time out from studies
    1. From three months
• advanced education
  • definition
    1. Students
  • full-time
    • HB
      1. Full-time students
    • IS
      1. Full-time students
      2. Who counts as a full-time student
    • JSA
      1. What counts as full time
  • IS
    1. Advanced or non-advanced education
  • JSA
    1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
    2. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • part-time
    • HB
      1. Studying part time
    • IS
      1. What counts as part time
    • JSA
      1. What counts as part time
• allied healthcare students
  1. 1. Full-time higher education
• amount of benefit
  • ADP
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • child benefit
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • CSP
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • CTC
    1. 3. Amount of child tax credit
  • ESA
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
    • C-ESA
      1. Contributory employment and support allowance
    • I-ESA
      1. Income-related employment and support allowance
  • HB
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • IS
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • JSA
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
    • C-JSA
      1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
    • I-JSA
      1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • MA
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • Scottish child payment
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • SMP/SAP/SPP/SSPP/SPBP
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • UC
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
• applicable amount
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • HB
    1. Step 6: work out your applicable amount
  • IS
    1. Applicable amount
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
• articulating students
  • council tax
    1. Articulating or direct entry students
• asylum seekers
  • health benefits
    1. Exempt groups
• available for work
  • JSA
    1. Studying and availability for work
    2. 3. Basic rules
• backdating
  • CSP
    1. 4. Claiming carer support payment
  • CTC
    1. Step 1: work out your maximum child tax credit
  • HB
    1. 5. Claiming housing benefit
  • JSA
    1. 5. Claiming jobseeker's allowance
  • WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
• bedroom tax
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • UC
    1. Housing costs element
• benefit cap
  1. The benefit cap
  2. The benefit cap
  • ADP
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • child benefit
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • CSP
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • CTC
    1. Means-tested benefits
  • ESA
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • HB
    1. The benefit cap
  • IS
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • JSA
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • MA
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • SMP/SAP/SPP/SSPP/SPBP
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • UC
    1. The benefit cap
  • WTC
    1. 6. Tax credits and benefits
• benefit week
  1. Courses starting in the autumn term lasting more than a year
• Best Start foods
  1. 3. Best Start foods
  • qualifying benefits
    1. 3. Best Start foods
• Best Start grants
  1. 2. Best Start grants
  • challenging a decision
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
  • claims
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • early learning payment
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • pregnancy and baby payment
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • qualifying benefits
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • school age payment
    1. 2. Best Start grants
• budgeting loans
  1. 5. Budgeting loans
  • challenging a decision
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
• bursary maintenance allowance
  1. Bursary maintenance allowance
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• capital
  • council tax reduction
    1. 3. Council tax reduction
  • ESA
    1. Step 1: capital
  • HB
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • health benefits
    1. Step 1: capital
    2. 7. Savings and other capital
  • IS
    1. Step 1: capital
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • lump-sum payments
    • health benefits
      1. Lump-sum payments
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Lump-sum payments
  • means-tested benefits
    1. 8. Savings and other capital
  • tax credits
    1. Savings and investments
    2. Property
  • UC
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
    2. 7. Savings and other capital
• care-experienced bursary maintenance allowance
  1. Care-experienced bursary maintenance allowance
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• care-experienced students' bursary
  1. Care-experienced students' bursary
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• care leavers
  • care-experienced bursary maintenance allowance
    1. Care-experienced bursary maintenance allowance
  • care-experienced students' bursary
    1. Care-experienced students' bursary
  • health benefits
    1. Exempt groups
  • summer accommodation grant
    1. Summer accommodation grant
• carer element
  • CSP
    1. Getting a carer premium or element
  • UC
    1. Carer element
• carer premium
  • CSP
    1. Getting a carer premium or element
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • IS
    1. Premiums
• carer support payment
  1. Chapter 2: Carer support payment
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming carer support payment
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement conditions
    1. Basic rules
  • entitlement to other benefits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • entitlement to WTC
    1. Working tax credit
  • full-time students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
    2. Full-time non-advanced education
  • part-time students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • payment
    1. 4. Claiming carer support payment
  • qualifying disability benefits
    1. Basic rules
• carers
  • available for work
    • JSA
      1. 3. Basic rules
  • benefits of person cared for
    1. The disabled person's benefit
  • carer element of UC
    1. Carer element
  • CSP
    1. 1. What is carer support payment
  • IS
    1. Studying part time
  • time out from course
    1. 3. Carers
  • UC
    1. 3. Basic rules
• carer's allowance
  1. 1. What is carer support payment
• carer's allowance supplement
  1. Carer's allowance supplement
  • amount
    1. Carer's allowance supplement
• challenging a decision
  • ADP
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • Best Start grants
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
  • CA
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • child benefit
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • CTC
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • ESA
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • funeral support payments
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
  • HB
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • health benefits
    1. 4. Challenging a decision
  • IS
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • JSA
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • MA
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • Scottish child payment
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
  • SMP/SAP/SPP/SSPP/SPBP
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • UC
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • WTC
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
• change of circumstances
  • CTC
    1. 4. Awards of child tax credit
    2. 1. Working out your income
  • WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
    2. 1. Working out your income
• charitable payments
  1. Educational trusts and endowments
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Voluntary or charitable payments
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Voluntary or charitable payments
• child benefit
  1. Chapter 3: Child benefit
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming child benefit
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • extension period
    1. The extension period
  • payment
    1. Getting paid
  • terminal date
    1. The terminal date
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. 5. Benefits and tax credits
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
    • tax credits
      1. Child benefit
      2. 4. Benefits
    • UC
      1. 5. Benefits
• child element
  • CTC
    1. Step 1: work out your maximum child tax credit
  • UC
    1. Child element
• child support
  • treatment as income
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 7. Maintenance
    • tax credits
      1. Maintenance
• child tax credit
  1. Chapter 11: Child tax credit
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of child tax credit
  • award period
    1. 4. Awards of child tax credit
  • benefits treated as income
    1. 4. Benefits
  • calculation
    1. 3. Amount of child tax credit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • child in further education
    1. 2. Who is eligible
    2. Your parent gets child tax credit for you
  • child in higher education
    1. Your parent gets child tax credit for you
  • earnings
    1. 3. Earnings
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement to other benefits
    1. 6. Tax credits and benefits
  • income
    1. Chapter 17: How income affects tax credits
  • income threshold
    1. Step 3: not getting a means-tested benefit
  • maximum CTC
    1. Step 1: work out your maximum child tax credit
  • new claims
    1. 1. What is child tax credit
  • overpayments
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
    2. 1. Working out your income
  • passport to other benefits
    1. Passported benefits
  • payment
    1. 4. Awards of child tax credit
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. 5. Benefits and tax credits
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Means-tested benefits
      2. 6. Benefits and tax credits
  • treatment of student support
    1. 2. Grants and loans
  • working out income
    1. 1. Working out your income
• childcare
  • childcare allowance
    1. Grants for living costs
  • childcare element
    1. Childcare element
    2. 3. Amount of working tax credit
  • childcare fund
    1. Childcare fund
    2. Childcare fund
  • disregarded earnings
    1. 5. Earnings
  • lone parents' childcare grant
    1. Childcare fund
    2. Childcare fund
• childcare allowance
  1. Grants for living costs
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• childcare element
  • UC
    1. Childcare element
  • WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
• childcare fund
  1. Childcare fund
  2. Childcare fund
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Discretionary funds
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Discretionary funds
    • tax credits
      2. 2. Grants and loans
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      3. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
      1. 1
      2. 2
• children
  • definition of a child
    • child benefit
      1. Who counts as a child
    • CTC
      1. 2. Who is eligible
  • Scottish child payment
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • UC
    1. Child element
• claimant commitment
  • JSA
    1. 3. Basic rules
  • UC
    1. 3. Basic rules
• claims
  • ADP
    1. 4. Claiming adult disability payment
  • Best Start grants
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • child benefit
    1. 4. Claiming child benefit
  • council tax reduction
    1. Students eligible for council tax reduction
  • CSP
    1. 4. Claiming carer support payment
  • ESA
    1. 5. Claiming employment and support allowance
  • HB
    1. 5. Claiming housing benefit
  • health benefits
    1. 3. Claiming health benefits
  • JSA
    1. 5. Claiming jobseeker's allowance
  • MA
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • Scottish child payment
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • SMP/SAP/SPP/SSPP/SPBP
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • UC
    1. 5. Claiming universal credit
• community care grants
  1. 6. The Scottish Welfare Fund
• components
  • ADP
    • daily living component
      1. Daily living component
    • mobility component
      1. Mobility component
  • ESA
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • HB
    1. Step 6: work out your applicable amount
• council tax
  1. Chapter 19: Council tax
  • council tax reduction
    1. 3. Council tax reduction
  • definition of student
    1. Who counts as a student
  • disability reduction
    1. Disability reduction
  • discounts
    1. Discounts
  • exempt dwellings
    1. Exempt dwellings
  • liability
    1. Who is liable for council tax
  • second adult rebate
    1. 4. Second adult rebate
  • what is council tax
    1. 1. What is council tax
  • who has to pay
    1. 2. Who pays council tax
• council tax reduction
  1. 3. Council tax reduction
  • capital
    1. 3. Council tax reduction
  • claiming
    1. Students eligible for council tax reduction
  • eligible students
    1. Students eligible for council tax reduction
• couples
  • council tax
    1. Couples
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
  • IS
    1. Who can get income support
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
    2. Couples
  • personal allowances
    1. Personal allowance
  • student couples
    1. Couples
• crisis grants
  1. 6. The Scottish Welfare Fund
• daily living component
  • ADP
    1. Daily living component
• dental treatment
  • free checks
    1. 1. What are health benefits
  • free treatment
    • eligible groups
      1. Dental treatment
    • qualifying benefits
      1. Qualifying benefits
• dependants' allowance
  1. Dependants' allowance
  2. Grants for living costs
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      2. Grants
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • means-tested benefits
      2. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
      1. 1
      2. 2
      3. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      2. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
      1. 1
      2. 2
• dependants' grant
  1. Dependants' grant
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      2. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• direct entry students
  • council tax
    1. Articulating or direct entry students
• disability living allowance
  1. 1. What is adult disability payment
  • limited capability for work
    1. 3. Limited capability for work
  • transferring to ADP
    1. 1. What is adult disability payment
• disability premium
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
  • IS
    1. Premiums
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
• disabled child element
  • CTC
    1. Step 1: work out your maximum child tax credit
• disabled students
  • ADP
    1. 1. What is adult disability payment
  • available for work
    • JSA
      1. 3. Basic rules
  • council tax disability reduction
    1. Disability reduction
  • ESA
    1. 1. What is employment and support allowance
    • C-ESA
      1. Contributory employment and support allowance
    • I-ESA
      1. Income-related employment and support allowance
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
  • UC
    1. 3. Basic rules
    2. Elements for illness
  • WTC
    1. Qualifying hours
• disabled students' allowance
  1. Disabled students' allowance
  2. Grants for living costs
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
      2. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      3. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
      1. 1
      2. 2
• disabled worker element
  • WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
• discretionary housing payments
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • UC
    1. Housing costs element
• disregards
  • benefits disregarded
    • health benefits
      1. 5. Benefits and tax credits
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
    • tax credits
      1. 4. Benefits
    • UC
      1. 5. Benefits
  • earnings disregarded
    • health benefits
      1. 4. Earnings
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 5. Earnings
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
    • UC
      1. 4. Earnings
  • student support disregarded
    • health benefits
      2. Grants
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Chapter 16: How income affects means-tested benefits
      2. Grants in further education
      3. Student loans for maintenance
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
  • tax credits disregarded
    • health benefits
      1. 5. Benefits and tax credits
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
• early learning payment
  1. 2. Best Start grants
• earnings
  • treatment of earnings
    • health benefits
      1. 4. Earnings
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 5. Earnings
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
    • UC
      1. 4. Earnings
• education maintenance allowance
  1. Education maintenance allowance
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• educational trusts
  1. Educational trusts and endowments
• eligible rent
  • HB
    1. Eligible accommodation
• employment and support allowance
  1. Chapter 4: Employment and support allowance
  • amount
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
    • C-ESA
      1. Contributory employment and support allowance
    • I-ESA
      1. Income-related employment and support allowance
  • benefits and tax credits treated as income
    1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
  • calculating income
    1. 1. Working out your income
  • calculation
    1. Income-related employment and support allowance
  • capital
    1. Step 1: capital
    2. 8. Savings and other capital
  • challenging a decision
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 5. Claiming employment and support allowance
  • contributory ESA
    1. 1. What is employment and support allowance
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
    • C-ESA
      1. Contributory employment and support allowance
    • I-ESA
      1. Income-related employment and support allowance
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • housing costs
    1. Applicable amount
  • income-related ESA
    1. 1. What is employment and support allowance
    • new claims
      1. 1. What is employment and support allowance
  • income
    1. Chapter 16: How income affects means-tested benefits
  • limited capability for work
    1. 3. Limited capability for work
  • new-style ESA
    1. 1. What is employment and support allowance
  • NI conditions
    1. Contributory employment and support allowance
  • passport to other benefits
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • support component
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • time out from studies
    1. From the start of your ill health
  • work-related activity component
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
• enhanced disability premium
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • IS
    1. Premiums
• estranged students' bursary
  1. Estranged students' bursary
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
• estrangement from parents
  • IS
    1. Who can get income support
  • UC
    1. Who can claim universal credit
• family element
  • CTC
    1. Step 1: work out your maximum child tax credit
• foster parents
  • single foster parents
    • IS
      1. 1. What is income support
      2. Who can get income support
    • UC
      1. Who can claim universal credit
• fuel costs
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
• full-time students
  • ADP
    1. Students
  • child benefit
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • council tax reduction
    1. Students eligible for council tax reduction
  • CSP
    1. 2. Who is eligible
    2. Full-time non-advanced education
  • CTC
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • ESA
    • I-ESA
      1. Income-related employment and support allowance
      2. Full-time student
  • HB
    1. Full-time students
    2. Who counts as a full-time student
  • ill health
    1. Full-time students
  • IS
    1. Full-time students
    2. Who counts as a full-time student
  • JSA
    1. What counts as full time
  • pregnancy
    1. Chapter 9: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
    2. 2. Pregnancy and children
  • student support
    • further education
      1. 2. Full-time further education
    • higher education
      1. 1. Full-time higher education
  • WTC
    1. 2. Who is eligible
• funeral support payments
  1. 4. Funeral support payments
  • challenging a decision
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
  • qualifying benefits
    1. 4. Funeral support payments
• further education
  • 20 or over
    1. 20 or over in further or higher education
• council tax
  • under 20
    1. Under 20 in further education
• full-time
  • HB
    1. Full-time students
  • IS
    1. Full-time students
  • JSA
    1. What counts as full time
• IS
  1. Advanced or non-advanced education
• JSA
  1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
• part-time
  • HB
    1. Studying part time
  • IS
    1. What counts as part time
  • JSA
    1. What counts as part time
• student support
  • full-time students
    1. 2. Full-time further education
  • part-time students
    1. Further education courses
• student support treatment as income
  • health benefits
    1. Grants
  • means-tested benefits
    1. Grants in further education
    2. Further education grants
  • tax credits
    1. 2. Grants and loans
  • UC
    1. 2. Grants and loans
• under 20
  • CTC
    1. Your parent gets child tax credit for you
• further education discretionary funds
  1. Further education discretionary fund
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Discretionary funds
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Discretionary funds
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• glasses
  • free checks
    1. 1. What are health benefits
  • vouchers for glasses and contact lenses
    1. Vouchers for glasses or contact lenses
• halls of residence
  1. Halls of residence
• health benefits
  1. Chapter 5: Health benefits
  • benefits treated as income
    1. 5. Benefits and tax credits
  • capital
    1. 7. Savings and other capital
  • challenging a decision
    1. 4. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 3. Claiming health benefits
  • earnings
    1. 4. Earnings
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • income
    1. Chapter 18: How income affects health benefits
  • low income scheme
    1. Low income scheme
  • student support treatment as income
    1. 2. Grants and loans
  • working out income
    1. 1. Working out your income
• higher education
  • council tax
    1. Under 20 in higher education
    2. 20 or over in further or higher education
  • full-time
    • HB
      1. Full-time students
    • IS
      1. Full-time students
    • JSA
      1. What counts as full time
  • IS
    1. Advanced or non-advanced education
  • JSA
    1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
    2. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • part-time
    • HB
      1. Studying part time
    • IS
      1. What counts as part time
    • JSA
      1. What counts as part time
  • student support
    • full-time students
      1. 1. Full-time higher education
    • part-time students
      1. Higher education courses
  • student support treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
      2. Higher education grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. 2. Grants and loans
• higher education discretionary funds
  1. Higher education discretionary fund
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Discretionary funds
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Discretionary funds
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      2. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• Higher National Certificate
  1. 1. Full-time higher education
• Higher National Diploma
  1. 1. Full-time higher education
• home
  • HB
    1. Your normal home
  • two homes
    • HB
      1. You have two homes
    • IS
      1. Housing costs
• hospital
  • fares to hospital
    1. Qualifying benefits
    2. Fares to hospital
• housing benefit
  1. Chapter 6: Housing benefit
  • amount
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • benefit cap
    1. The benefit cap
  • benefits and tax credits treated as income
    1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
  • calculating income
    1. 1. Working out your income
  • calculation
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • capital
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
    2. 8. Savings and other capital
  • challenging a decision
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 5. Claiming housing benefit
  • discretionary housing payments
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • eligible accommodation
    1. Eligible accommodation
  • eligible rent
    1. Eligible accommodation
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement conditions
    1. 3. Basic rules
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • full-time students
    1. Who counts as a full-time student
  • income
    1. Chapter 16: How income affects means-tested benefits
  • local housing allowance
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • lone parents
    1. Who can get housing benefit
  • maximum rent
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • new claims
    1. 1. What is housing benefit
  • non-dependant deductions
    1. Step 3: deductions for non-dependants
  • part-time students
    1. Studying part time
  • passport to other benefits
    1. Passported benefits
  • payment
    1. 5. Claiming housing benefit
  • payment on account
    1. 5. Claiming housing benefit
  • people living with you
    1. Step 3: deductions for non-dependants
  • rent restrictions
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • summer vacation
    1. You are away from your term-time home
  • who can get HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
• housing costs
  • met by ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • met by IS
    1. Housing costs
  • met by JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • met by UC
    1. Housing costs element
• ill health
  • ESA
    1. 1. What is employment and support allowance
  • full-time students
    1. Full-time students
  • part-time students
    1. Part-time students
  • suspension of loan
    1. Student support
  • time out from studies
    1. 1. Ill health
  • UC
    1. Elements for illness
• income
  • benefits and tax credits treated as income
    • health benefits
      1. 5. Benefits and tax credits
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
    • tax credits
      1. 4. Benefits
    • UC
      1. 5. Benefits
  • change in income
    • tax credits
      1. 1. Working out your income
  • earnings
    • health benefits
      1. 4. Earnings
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 5. Earnings
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
    • UC
      1. 4. Earnings
  • ESA
    1. Chapter 16: How income affects means-tested benefits
  • health benefits
    1. Low income scheme
    2. Chapter 18: How income affects health benefits
  • IS
    1. Chapter 16: How income affects means-tested benefits
  • maintenance
    • health benefits
      1. 6. Maintenance
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 7. Maintenance
    • tax credits
      1. Maintenance
  • property income
    • tax credits
      1. Property
  • regular payments
    • health benefits
      1. Regular payments
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Regular payments
  • tax credits
    1. Chapter 17: How income affects tax credits
  • UC
    1. Part 3: Treatment of income
  • weekly income
    1. 3. Dividing student income throughout the year
  • working out income
    • health benefits
      1. 1. Working out your income
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 1. Working out your income
    • tax credits
      1. 1. Working out your income
    • UC
      1. 1. Working out your income
• income support
  • amount
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • benefits and tax credits treated as income
    1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
  • calculating income
    1. 1. Working out your income
  • calculation
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • capital
    1. Step 1: capital
    2. 8. Savings and other capital
  • challenging a decision
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • claims
    1. 1. What is income support
    2. 5. Claiming income support
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement conditions
    1. 3. Basic rules
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • foster parents
    1. 1. What is income support
    2. Who can get income support
  • full-time students
    1. Who counts as a full-time student
  • housing costs
    1. Housing costs
  • income
    1. Chapter 16: How income affects means-tested benefits
  • lone parents
    1. 1. What is income support
    2. Who can get income support
  • part-time students
    1. Studying part time
  • passport to other benefits
    1. Passported benefits
  • payment
    1. Getting paid
• income threshold
  • CTC
    1. Step 3: not getting a means-tested benefit
  • WTC
    2. 3. Amount of working tax credit
    1. 1
    2. 2
• independent students' bursary
  1. Independent students' bursary
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
• jobseeker's allowance
  1. Chapter 8: Jobseeker's allowance
  • actively seeking work
    1. Studying and availability for work
    2. 3. Basic rules
  • amount
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
    • C-JSA
      1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
    • I-JSA
      1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • available for work
    1. Studying and availability for work
    2. 3. Basic rules
  • benefits and tax credits treated as income
    1. 6. Benefits and tax credits
  • calculating income
    1. 1. Working out your income
  • capital
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
    2. 8. Savings and other capital
  • challenging a decision
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 5. Claiming jobseeker's allowance
  • contribution-based JSA
    1. 1. What is jobseeker's allowance
    2. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement conditions
    1. 3. Basic rules
    • C-JSA
      1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
    • I-JSA
      1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • full-time students
    1. What counts as full time
  • housing costs
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • income-based JSA
    1. 1. What is jobseeker's allowance
    2. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
    • new claims
      1. 1. What is jobseeker's allowance
  • income
    1. Chapter 16: How income affects means-tested benefits
  • new-style JSA
    1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
  • part-time students
    1. Studying part time
  • passport to other benefits
    1. Passported benefits
  • relevant education
    1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
• limited capability for work
  • ESA
    1. 3. Limited capability for work
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
  • time out from studies
    1. From 28 weeks
  • UC
    1. Who can claim universal credit
    2. Elements for illness
• living away from home
  • bursary maintenance allowance
    1. Bursary maintenance allowance
• living costs grants
  • discretionary funds for higher education students
    1. Higher education discretionary fund
  • grants for paramedic, nursing and midwifery students
    1. Grants for living costs
• local housing allowance
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • UC
    1. Housing costs element
• lone parent element
  • WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
• lone parents
  • benefits
    1. Lone parents
  • childcare grant
    1. Childcare fund
    2. Childcare fund
  • earnings disregards
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 5. Earnings
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
  • IS
    1. 1. What is income support
    2. Who can get income support
  • paramedic, nursing and midwifery students
    1. Grants for living costs
  • personal allowances
    • IS
      1. Personal allowance
  • UC
    1. 3. Basic rules
• lone parents' childcare grant
  1. Childcare fund
  2. Childcare fund
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      2. Grants
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
      2. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      2. 2. Grants and loans
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      3. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
      1. 1
      2. 2
• lone parents' grant
  1. Lone parents' grant
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      2. Undergraduate grants
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      2. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• low income
  • health benefits
    1. Low income scheme
• lump-sum payments
  • health benefits
    1. Lump-sum payments
  • means-tested benefits
    1. Lump-sum payments
• maintenance
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. 6. Maintenance
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 7. Maintenance
    • tax credits
      1. Maintenance
    • UC
      1. 6. Maintenance
• maternity
  • benefits
    1. Chapter 9: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
    2. 2. Pregnancy and children
  • Best Start foods
    1. 3. Best Start foods
  • Best Start grants
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • health benefits
    1. Exempt groups
  • Scottish child payment
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • time out from studies
    1. 2. Pregnancy and children
• maternity allowance
  1. Maternity allowance
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • entitlement conditions
    1. Maternity allowance
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
• maximum rent
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
• meal charges
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
• midwifery students
  • student support
    1. 5. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students
  • student support treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• mobility component
  • ADP
    1. Mobility component
• modular courses
  • IS
    1. Who counts as a full-time student
  • UC
    1. Modular courses
• mortgage interest loan
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • IS
    1. Housing costs
  • UC
    1. Housing costs element
• national insurance contributions
  • C-ESA
    1. Contributory employment and support allowance
  • C-JSA
    1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
• NHS low income scheme
  1. Chapter 18: How income affects health benefits
• 16-21-year-olds
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
• non-advanced education
  • child benefit
    2. Who counts as a qualifying young person
    1. 1
    2. 2
  • CTC
    1. 2. Who is eligible
    2. Your parent gets child tax credit for you
  • full-time
    • HB
      1. Full-time students
    • IS
      1. Full-time students
      2. Who counts as a full-time student
    • JSA
      1. What counts as full time
  • IS
    1. Advanced or non-advanced education
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • part-time
    • HB
      1. Studying part time
    • IS
      1. What counts as part time
    • JSA
      1. What counts as part time
• non-dependant deductions
  • HB
    1. Step 3: deductions for non-dependants
• nursing students
  • student support
    1. 5. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students
  • student support treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• online claims
  • Best Start grants
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • C-JSA
    1. 5. Claiming jobseeker's allowance
  • child benefit
    1. 4. Claiming child benefit
  • CSP
    1. 4. Claiming carer support payment
  • HB
    1. 5. Claiming housing benefit
  • Scottish child payment
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • UC
    1. 5. Claiming universal credit
• overlapping benefits
  • CA
    1. Overlapping benefits
• overpayments
  • tax credits
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
    2. 1. Working out your income
• paramedic, nursing and midwifery bursary
  1. Bursary
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• paramedic students
  • student support
    1. 5. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students
  • student support treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• parents
  • benefits
    1. Chapter 9: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • child benefit
    1. Chapter 3: Child benefit
  • CTC
    1. Chapter 11: Child tax credit
  • fathers
    1. Fathers and partners
  • living apart from parents
    • IS
      1. Who can get income support
    • UC
      1. Who can claim universal credit
  • student couples
    1. Couples
    • HB
      1. Who can get housing benefit
    • IS
      1. Who can get income support
  • WTC
    • working hours
      1. Qualifying hours
• part-time students
  • ADP
    1. Students
  • child benefit
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • council tax reduction
    1. Students eligible for council tax reduction
  • CSP
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • CTC
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • ESA
    • I-ESA
      1. Income-related employment and support allowance
  • HB
    1. Studying part time
  • ill health
    1. Part-time students
  • IS
    1. Studying part time
  • JSA
    1. Studying part time
  • pregnancy
    1. Chapter 9: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
    2. 2. Pregnancy and children
  • student support
    • further education
      1. Further education courses
    • higher education
      1. Higher education courses
  • WTC
    1. 2. Who is eligible
• passported benefits
  • ESA
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • HB
    1. Passported benefits
  • IS
    1. Passported benefits
  • JSA
    1. Passported benefits
  • tax credits
    1. Passported benefits
  • UC
    1. Passported benefits
• paternity
  • benefits
    1. Chapter 9: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • time out from studies
    1. Fathers and partners
• payment on account
  • HB
    1. 5. Claiming housing benefit
• pension age
  • capital
    1. 8. Savings and other capital
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
• pensioner premium
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • IS
    1. Premiums
• personal allowances
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • HB
    1. Step 6: work out your applicable amount
  • IS
    1. Personal allowance
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
• personal independence payment
  1. 1. What is adult disability payment
  • limited capability for work
    1. 3. Limited capability for work
  • transferring to ADP
    1. 1. What is adult disability payment
• plus one year
  1. Previous study
• postgraduate students
  • IS
    1. Who counts as a full-time student
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
  • student support
    1. 4. Postgraduates
  • student support treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Postgraduate grants
      2. Postgraduate funding
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
• pregnancy
  • benefits
    1. Chapter 9: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
    2. 2. Pregnancy and children
  • Best Start food
    1. 3. Best Start foods
  • Best Start grants
    1. 2. Best Start grants
  • health benefits
    1. Exempt groups
  • time out from studies
    1. 2. Pregnancy and children
• pregnancy and baby payment
  1. 2. Best Start grants
• premiums
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • HB
    1. Step 6: work out your applicable amount
  • IS
    1. Premiums
  • JSA
    1. Income-based jobseeker's allowance
• prescriptions
  • free
    1. 1. What are health benefits
• Professional Graduate Diploma in Education
  1. 1. Full-time higher education
• property
  • treatment of income
    • tax credits
      1. Property
• qualifying young person
  • child benefit
    1. Who counts as a qualifying young person
  • UC
    1. Students
• re-sitting exams
  1. 4. Re-sits
• receiving education
  • UC
    1. Students
• refugees
  • IS
    1. Who can get income support
• regular payments
  • health benefits
    1. Regular payments
  • means-tested benefits
    1. Regular payments
• relevant education
  • JSA
    1. Contribution-based jobseeker's allowance
• rent
  • eligible rent
    • HB
      1. Eligible accommodation
  • HB
    1. 1. What is housing benefit
  • liable for rent
    • HB
      1. Liable for rent
    • UC
      1. Housing costs element
  • maximum rent
    • HB
      1. Step 2: maximum rent
  • two homes
    • HB
      1. You have two homes
  • UC
    1. Housing costs element
• rent restrictions
  • private tenants
    • HB
      1. Step 2: maximum rent
    • UC
      1. Housing costs element
  • social sector tenants
    • HB
      1. Step 2: maximum rent
    • UC
      1. Housing costs element
• sanctions
  • JSA
    1. Studying and availability for work
  • UC
    1. Work-related requirements
• sandwich course
  • IS
    1. Who counts as a full-time student
• scholarships
  1. 6. Other support for students
• school age payment
  1. 2. Best Start grants
• school lunches
  • free school lunches
    • ESA
      1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
    • IS
      1. Passported benefits
    • JSA
      1. Passported benefits
    • tax credits
      1. Passported benefits
    • UC
      1. Passported benefits
• Scottish child payment
  1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • amount
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • challenging a decision
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
  • claims
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • elgible students
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
  • payment
    1. 1. Scottish child payment
• Scottish Welfare Fund
  1. 6. The Scottish Welfare Fund
  • challenging a decision
    1. 7. Challenging a decision
• second adult rebate
  1. 4. Second adult rebate
• self-employment
  • tax credits
    1. 5. Other income
• service charges
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
• severe disability element
  • WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
• severe disability premium
  • ESA
    1. Applicable amount
  • HB
    1. Who can get housing benefit
  • IS
    1. Premiums
• severely disabled child element
  • CTC
    1. Step 1: work out your maximum child tax credit
• single parents' allowance
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• single room rent
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
• social fund
  • budgeting loans
    1. 5. Budgeting loans
• special support loan
  1. Student loans
  • treatment as income
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• sponsorship
  1. 6. Other support for students
• statutory adoption pay
  1. Statutory adoption pay
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • entitlement conditions
    1. Statutory adoption pay
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • treatment as income
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
• statutory maternity pay
  1. Statutory maternity pay
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • entitlement conditions
    1. Statutory maternity pay
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • treatment as income
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
• statutory parental bereavement pay
  1. Statutory parental bereavement pay
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • entitlement conditions
    1. Statutory parental bereavement pay
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • treatment as income
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
• statutory paternity pay
  1. Statutory paternity pay
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • entitlement conditions
    1. Statutory paternity pay
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • treatment as income
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
• statutory shared parental pay
  1. Statutory shared parental pay
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of benefit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • claiming
    1. 4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
  • entitlement conditions
    1. Statutory shared parental pay
  • entitlement to other benefits and tax credits
    1. 6. Other benefits and tax credits
  • treatment as income
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
• statutory sick pay
  • treatment as income
    • tax credits
      1. 3. Earnings
• student grants
  • calculating weekly income
    1. Grants
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• student loans
  1. Student loans
  • calculating weekly income
    1. Student loans for maintenance
  • suspended due to ill health
    1. Student support
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
      2. Student loan
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Student loans for maintenance
    • tax credits
      2. 2. Grants and loans
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • UC
      1. 2. Grants and loans
• student support
  1. Chapter 14: Student support
  • further education
    • full-time students
      1. 2. Full-time further education
    • part-time students
      1. Further education courses
  • higher education
    • full-time students
      1. 1. Full-time higher education
    • part-time students
      1. Higher education courses
  • ill health
    1. Student support
  • paramedic, nursing and midwifery students
    1. 5. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students
  • postgraduates
    1. 4. Postgraduates
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • means-tested benefits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. 2. Grants and loans
  • tuition fees
    1. Tuition fees
• study expenses allowance
  1. Study expenses allowance
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• summer accommodation grant
  1. Summer accommodation grant
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• Tax Credit Helpline
  1. 4. Awards of child tax credit
• tax credits
  • income
    1. Chapter 17: How income affects tax credits
• term-time accommodation
  1. You are away from your term-time home
• time out from studies
  1. Chapter 20: Time out from studies
  • carers
    1. 3. Carers
  • ill health
    1. 1. Ill health
  • pregnancy
    1. 2. Pregnancy and children
• travel expenses
  1. 1. Full-time higher education
• travel expenses allowance
  1. Travel expenses allowance
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      2. Grants
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
      2. Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
      3. Grants in further education
    • tax credits
      2. 2. Grants and loans
      1. 1
      2. 2
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      3. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
      1. 1
      2. 2
• tuition fees
  1. Tuition fees
  • part-time fee grant
    1. Higher education courses
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance
      2. If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
• two homes
  • HB
    1. You have two homes
  • IS
    1. Housing costs
• underpayments
  • tax credits
    1. 1. Working out your income
• universal credit
  1. Chapter 10: Universal credit
  • amount
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • assessment periods
    1. 3. Dividing income throughout the year
  • benefit cap
    1. The benefit cap
  • benefits treated as income
    1. 5. Benefits
  • budgeting advance
    1. 5. Claiming universal credit
  • calculating income
    1. 1. Working out your income
  • calculation
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
  • capital
    1. 4. Amount of benefit
    2. 7. Savings and other capital
  • carer element
    1. Carer element
  • challenging a decision
    1. 6. Challenging a decision
  • child element
    1. Child element
  • childcare element
    1. Childcare element
  • claiming
    1. 5. Claiming universal credit
  • disability
    1. Elements for illness
  • discretionary housing payments
    1. Housing costs element
  • eligibile students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement conditions
    1. 3. Basic rules
  • entitlement to other benefits
    1. 7. Other benefits and tax credits
  • housing costs element
    1. Housing costs element
    • non-dependants
      1. Housing costs element
  • illness
    1. Elements for illness
  • income
    1. Part 3: Treatment of income
  • local housing allowance
    1. Housing costs element
  • maximum amount
    1. Your maximum amount
  • passport to other benefits
    1. Passported benefits
  • payment
    1. 5. Claiming universal credit
  • standard allowance
    1. Standard allowance
  • transferring onto UC
    1. 5. Claiming universal credit
  • who can claim
    1. Who can claim universal credit
  • work-related requirements
    1. Work-related requirements
• vacations
  • HB
    1. You are away from your term-time home
• vouchers
  • glasses and contact lenses
    • eligible groups
      1. Vouchers for glasses or contact lenses
    • qualifying benefits
      1. Qualifying benefits
• war pensioners
  • health benefits
    1. Exempt groups
• water charges
  • HB
    1. Step 2: maximum rent
• work-focused interviews
  1. 3. Limited capability for work
• work-related requirements
  • UC
    1. Work-related requirements
• work capability assessment
  1. 3. Limited capability for work
• working tax credit
  1. Chapter 12: Working tax credit
  • amount
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
  • award period
    1. 4. Awards of working tax credit
  • benefits treated as income
    1. 4. Benefits
  • calculation
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
  • challenging a decision
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
  • earnings
    1. 3. Earnings
  • eligible students
    1. 2. Who is eligible
  • entitlement to other benefits
    1. 6. Tax credits and benefits
  • income
    1. Chapter 17: How income affects tax credits
  • income threshold
    2. 3. Amount of working tax credit
    1. 1
    2. 2
  • maximum WTC
    1. 3. Amount of working tax credit
  • new claims
    1. 1. What is working tax credit
  • overpayments
    1. 5. Challenging a decision
    2. 1. Working out your income
  • passport to other benefits
    1. Passported benefits
  • payment
    1. 4. Awards of working tax credit
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. 5. Benefits and tax credits
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Means-tested benefits
      2. 6. Benefits and tax credits
  • treatment of student support
    1. 2. Grants and loans
  • working hours
    1. Qualifying hours
  • working out income
    1. 1. Working out your income
• young carer grant
  1. Young carer grant
  • amount
    1. Young carer grant
• young person
  • qualifying young person
    • child benefit
      1. Who counts as a qualifying young person
• young students' bursary
  1. Young students' bursary
  • treatment as income
    • health benefits
      1. Grants
    • means-tested benefits
      1. Undergraduate grants
      2. Student loans for maintenance
    • tax credits
      1. 2. Grants and loans
    • UC
      1. If you get a student loan for maintenance