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Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26
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06 Apr 2026
Part 3: Treatment of income
Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26
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Part 3: Treatment of income
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Part 3: Treatment of income
Chapter 12: How income affects universal credit
1. Working out your income
2. Grants and loans
If you get a student loan for maintenance
If you do not get a student loan for maintenance
3. Dividing income throughout the year
4. Earnings
5. Benefits
6. Maintenance
7. Savings and other capital
Chapter 13: How income affects means-tested benefits
1. Working out your income
2. Grants and loans
Grants
Undergraduate grants
Paramedic, nursing and midwifery students' grants
Postgraduate grants
Grants in further education
Student loans for maintenance
3. Dividing student income throughout the year
Student loans for maintenance
Courses starting in the autumn term lasting more than a year
Courses not starting in the autumn term
Courses lasting one year or less
If you leave your course early
Grants
The standard rule for grants
Higher education grants
Paramedic, nursing and midwifery bursaries
Further education grants
Postgraduate funding
If you leave your course early
4. Discretionary funds and other payments
Discretionary funds
Lump-sum payments
Regular payments
Payments before a course starts or before a loan is paid
Other payments
Voluntary or charitable payments
5. Earnings
6. Benefits
7. Maintenance
8. Savings and other capital
Chapter 14: How income affects health benefits
1. Working out your income
2. Grants and loans
Grants
Student loan
3. Discretionary funds and other payments
Discretionary funds
Lump-sum payments
Regular payments
Other payments
Voluntary or charitable payments
4. Earnings
5. Benefits
6. Maintenance
7. Savings and other capital
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CPAG. "Part 3: Treatment of income." In
Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed August 26, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267477CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Part 3: Treatment of income." In
Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed August 26, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267477CITANCHOR.
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Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2025/26
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