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Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26
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06 Apr 2026
Part 1: Benefits
Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26
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Part 1: Benefits
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Part 1: Benefits
Chapter 1: Adult disability payment
1. What is adult disability payment
2. Who is eligible
Daily living component
Mobility component
Students
3. Amount of benefit
4. Claiming adult disability payment
5. Challenging a decision
6. Other benefits
Chapter 2: Carer support payment
1. What is carer support payment
2. Who is eligible
Full-time non-advanced education
Basic rules
3. Amount of benefit
4. Claiming carer support payment
5. Challenging a decision
6. Other benefits
The disabled person's benefit
Overlapping benefits
Getting a carer premium or element
Scottish carer supplement
Carer additional person payment
Young carer grant
Chapter 3: Child benefit
1. What is child benefit
2. Who is eligible
Who counts as a child
Who counts as a qualifying young person
The extension period
The terminal date
3. Amount of benefit
4. Claiming child benefit
Getting paid
5. Challenging a decision
6. Other benefits
Chapter 4: Employment and support allowance
1. What is employment and support allowance
2. Who is eligible
3. Limited capability for work
4. Amount of benefit
5. Claiming employment and support allowance
6. Challenging a decision
7. Other benefits
Chapter 5: Health benefits
1. What are health benefits
2. Who is eligible
Under age 19
Under age 26
Age 26 or over
Qualifying benefits
Exempt groups
Dental treatment
Vouchers for glasses or contact lenses
Fares to hospital
Low income scheme
Step 1: capital
Step 2: work out your requirements
Step 3: work out your weekly income
Step 4: deduct weekly income from requirements
3. Claiming health benefits
4. Challenging a decision
Chapter 6: Housing benefit
1. What is housing benefit
2. Who is eligible
Full-time students
Who counts as a full-time student
Who can get housing benefit
Studying part time
3. Basic rules
Liable for rent
Your normal home
You are away from your term-time home
You have two homes
Eligible accommodation
Halls of residence
4. Amount of benefit
Step 1 capital
Step 2: maximum rent
Step 3: deductions for non-dependants
Step 4: getting a means-tested benefit
Step 5: not getting a means-tested benefit
Step 6: work out your applicable amount
Step 7: work out your weekly income
Step 8: calculate your housing benefit
5. Claiming housing benefit
6. Challenging a decision
7. Other benefits
The benefit cap
Passported benefits
Chapter 7: New-style jobseeker's allowance
1. What is new-style jobseeker's allowance
2. Who is eligible
3. Basic rules
4. Amount of benefit
5. Claiming jobseeker's allowance
6. Challenging a decision
7. Other benefits
Chapter 8: Maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
1. What are maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
Statutory maternity pay
Maternity allowance
Statutory paternity pay
Statutory adoption pay
Statutory shared parental pay
Statutory parental bereavement pay
Statutory neonatal care pay
2. Who is eligible
Statutory maternity pay
Maternity allowance
Statutory paternity pay
Statutory adoption pay
Statutory shared parental pay
Statutory parental bereavement pay
Statutory neonatal care pay
3. Amount of benefit
4. Claiming maternity, paternity and other parental benefits
5. Challenging a decision
6. Other benefits
Chapter 9: Universal credit
1. What is universal credit
2. Who is eligible
Students
Modular courses
Who can claim universal credit
Work-related requirements
3. Basic rules
4. Amount of benefit
Step 1: capital
Step 2: work out your maximum amount
Step 3: work out your monthly income
Step 4: deduct monthly income from maximum amount
Your maximum amount
Standard allowance
Child element
Elements for illness
Carer element
Housing costs element
Childcare element
5. Claiming universal credit
6. Challenging a decision
7. Other benefits
The benefit cap
Passported benefits
Chapter 10: Other payments
1. Scottish child payment
2. Best Start grants
3. Best Start foods
4. Funeral support payment
5. Budgeting loans
6. The Scottish Welfare Fund
7. Care leaver payment
7. Challenging a decision
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CPAG. "Part 1: Benefits." In
Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed August 26, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267278CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Part 1: Benefits." In
Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed August 26, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267278CITANCHOR.
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Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26
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