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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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01 Dec 2025
Part 10: Scottish social security benefits
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 10: Scottish social security benefits
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Part 10: Scottish social security benefits
Chapter 60: The Scottish social security system
1. Overview of the Scottish social security system
The Scottish benefits
Benefits not under the Scottish social security system
Job Start Payment
2. Moving to or from Scotland
If you move to Scotland
If you move elsewhere in the UK
3. Scottish adult disability living allowance
The disability conditions for the care component
The disability conditions for the mobility component
Transfers to Scottish adult disability living allowance
Requesting Scottish adult disability living allowance
Getting paid, tax and other benefits
Moving to adult disability payment
4. How this part of the Handbook is organised
Chapter 61: Adult disability payment
Key facts
1. Who can get adult disability payment
The disability conditions
How the disability conditions are different
Differences in the wording of the daily living and mobility activities
The required period condition
The required period condition if you previously got a disability benefit
2. The rules about your age
Mobility component for older people
New claims after you reach pension age
If your award changes after you reach pension age
3. The amount of benefit
4. Special benefit rules
Terminal illness
Claims if you are terminally ill
When your entitlement starts if you are terminally ill
5. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
When you do not need to make a claim
Who should claim
Information to support your claim
The required information
Assessment consultations
The date of your claim
Backdating your claim
If you claim the wrong benefit
Claiming in advance
Getting paid
Change of circumstances
Reviews of adult disability payment awards
Transfers to adult disability payment
Moving from personal independence payment to adult disability payment
Moving from disability living allowance to adult disability payment
6. Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax
Other benefits and tax credits
Non-means-tested benefits
The benefit cap
Passports and other sources of help
Motability
Chapter 62: Scottish child payment, Best Start grants and Best Start foods
Key facts
1. Scottish child payment
The amount of Scottish child payment
Change of circumstances
2. Best Start grant
Who can get a pregnancy and baby payment
Who can get an early learning payment
Who can get a school-age payment
The amount of Best Start grant
3. Best Start foods
4. Responsibility for a child
Competing claims
5. Qualifying benefits
6. The rules about your age
7. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
When you do not have to make a claim
Information to support your claim
Scottish child payment
Best Start grant
Best Start foods
The date of your claim
Scottish child payment
Best Start grants
Best Start foods
Getting paid
8. Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax
Means-tested benefits
The benefit cap
Passports and other sources of help
Chapter 63: Carers' payments
Key facts
1. Carer support payment
Who can get carer support payment
Qualifying benefits
Regularly and substantially caring
Gainfully employed
The rules about your age
The amount of benefit
Special benefit rules
Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
Who should claim
Information to support your claim
The date of your claim
Getting paid
Change of circumstances
Reviews of carer suppport payment awards
Transfers to carer support payment
Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax
Other benefits
The benefit cap
Passports and other sources of help
2. Carer's allowance supplement
Carer's allowance supplement if you live abroad
3. Young carer grant
Who can get a young carer grant
Qualifying benefits
The care you must provide
The rules about your age
The amount of benefit
Special benefit rules
Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
Who should claim
Information to support your claim
The date of your claim
Getting paid
Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax
Other benefits
The benefit cap
Passports and other sources of help
Chapter 64: Child disability payment
Key facts
1. Who can get child disability payment
Disability conditions for the care component
The daytime and night-time conditions
The additional requirement condition
Disability conditions for the mobility component
The higher rate mobility component
The lower rate mobility component
2. The rules about your age
Moving to adult disability payment
3. The amount of benefit
4. Special benefit rules
Renal dialysis
5. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
When you do not need to make a claim
Who should claim
Information to support your claim
The date of your claim
Backdating your claim
Claiming in advance
Getting paid
Change of circumstances
Reviews of child disability payment awards
If a child dies
6. Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax
Other benefits
Non-means-tested benefits
The benefit cap
Passports and other sources of help
Chapter 65: Funeral support payment
Key facts
1. Who can get a funeral support payment
Qualifying benefits
Responsible for the funeral expenses
Funerals that take place in the European Economic Area
2. The rules about your age
3. The amount of benefit
Deductions from awards
4. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
Information to support your claim
The date of your claim
Getting paid
5. Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax and benefits
The benefit cap
Chapter 66: Heating payments
Key facts
1. Who can get winter heating payment
Qualifying benefits
2. Who can get child winter heating payment
3. Who can get pension age winter heating payment
Who cannot get a pension age winter heating payment
4. The rules about your age
5. The amount of benefit
6. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
When you do not need to make a claim
Information to support your claim
Getting paid
7. Tax, other benefits and the benefit cap
Tax
Other benefits
The benefit cap
Other sources of help
Chapter 67: Pension age disability payment
Key facts
1. Who can get pension age disability payment
The disability conditions
Required period condition
2. The rules about your age
If you are getting another disability benefit and reach pension age
3. The amount of benefit
4. Special benefit rules
Renal dialysis
Terminal illness
5. Claims and getting paid
Making a claim
When you do not need to make a claim
Who should claim
Information to support your claim
The date of your claim
Backdating your claim
If you claim the wrong benefit
Claiming in advance
Getting paid
Changes of circumstances
Reviews of pension age disability payment awards
Transfers to pension age disability payment
6. Tax, other benefits and the benefits cap
Tax
Means-tested benefits
Non-means-tested benefits
The benefit cap
Passports and other sources of help
Chapter 68: Claiming Scottish benefits and getting paid
Key facts
1. Claims
How to make a claim
Withdrawing a claim
Appointees
Appointees for adults
Appointees for children
Ending an appointeeship
Right to support
Right to advocacy
2. Getting paid
Suspension of payments
When payment can be suspended
Right to review
When the suspension ends
Payment after a benefit is suspended
3. Overpayments
Overpayments that may be recoverable
Recovery of overpayments
Challenging an overpayment recoverability determination
Reviews
Appeals
4. Fraud
Powers of investigation
Interviews under caution
5. Complaints
Chapter 69: Determinations, redeterminations and appeals
Key facts
1. Determinations of entitlement
If you do not get a determination after you make a claim
2. Redeterminations
Who can request a redetermination
How to request a redetermination
Time limits to request a redetermination
After you request a redetermination
Time limit for a redetermination to be carried out
3. Other ways to get a determination changed
If you do not get a determination
If there was an official error
If your award may no longer be correct
If your award is being reviewed
Changes of circumstances
If your award was too high due to an error
If the previous determination was made in ignorance of a material fact
If your previous benefit award changes
4. Appealing to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland
Who can appeal
How to appeal
Making sure your appeal is valid
Time limit to appeal
If you miss the time limit
After you appeal
The response
Providing additional information
What the First-tier Tribunal can do
Sisting appeals
When your appeal can be dismissed
Withdrawing an appeal
New determinations after you appeal
How your appeal is decided
The tribunal’s decision
The statement of reasons
If you disagree with the tribunal’s decision
Requesting a review
If Social Security Scotland requests a review
How the First-tier Tribunal carries out a review
The review decision
If you disagree with a review decision
5. Appeals to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland and the Court of Session
How to appeal to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland
Applying to the First-tier Tribunal for permission
Applying to the Upper Tribunal for Scotland for permission
What the Upper Tribunal for Scotland can do
Upper Tribunal for Scotland Hearings
Upper Tribunal for Scotland decisions
Reviews of Upper Tribunal for Scotland decisions
Appeals to the Court of Session
6. Short-term assistance
Who can get short-term assistance
The amount of benefit
Claims
Getting paid, tax and other benefits
7. Appealing about process decisions
How to appeal against a process decision
The time limit for appealing
If you miss the time limit to appeal against a process decision
What happens after you appeal
Decisions about appeals against process decisions
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CPAG. "Part 10: Scottish social security benefits." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026.
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https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266032CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Part 10: Scottish social security benefits." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266032CITANCHOR.
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