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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Chapter 63: Carers' payments
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 10: Scottish social security benefits
Chapter 63: Carers' payments
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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
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CPAG. "Chapter 63: Carers' payments." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266122CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 63: Carers' payments." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 10, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266122CITANCHOR.
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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March 21, 2025
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