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Children's Handbook Scotland 2025/26
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Chapter 1: Benefits
Children's Handbook Scotland 2025/26
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Chapter 1: Benefits
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Chapter 1: Benefits
1. Introduction
Benefit cap
2. Adult disability payment
Who can get adult disability payment
Disability test: daily living and mobility components
Amount of benefit
4. Best Start grant
Pregnancy and baby payment
Early learning payment
School-age payment
Responsible for the child
5. Carer support payment
Who can get carer support payment
The disabled person's benefit
Breaks from caring
Overlapping benefits
Carer element, carer premium and carer addition
Amount of benefit
6. Child benefit
Who can get child benefit
Who counts as a child
Who counts as a qualifying young person
Relevant education
Approved training
Extension period
Terminal date
Responsible for a child
Priority between claimants
Amount of benefit
7. Child disability payment
Who can get child disability payment
Disability test: care component
Disability test: mobility component
Amount of benefit
8. Employment and support allowance
Contributory employment and support allowance
Who can get contributory employment and support allowance
Amount of benefit
9. Funeral support payment
Who can get a funeral support payment
10. Guardian’s allowance
Who can get guardian’s allowance
Who is an eligible child
Parents and adoptive parents
Amount of benefit
11. Health benefits
Who is exempt from charges
Qualifying benefits
Exempt groups
Low income scheme
Best Start foods
12. Housing benefit
Who can get housing benefit
Who cannot get housing benefit
Amount of benefit
Step 1: calculate the maximum housing benefit
Step 2: deduct amounts for non-dependants from maximum housing benefit
Step 3: if you get means-tested benefits
Step 4: if you do not get means-tested benefits
Step 5: work out your weekly income
Step 6: calculate your housing benefit
Discretionary housing payments
13. Pension age disability payment
Who can get pension age disability payment
Terminal illness
Disability test
Amount of benefit
14. Pension credit
Who can get pension credit
Pension age
Amount of benefit
Guarantee credit
Step 1: calculate your appropriate minimum guarantee
Step 2: work out your weekly income
Step 3: deduct income from appropriate minimum guarantee
Savings credit
15. Scottish child payment
Who can get Scottish child payment
Responsible for a child
Qualifying benefits
Priority between claimants
Amount of benefit
16. The Scottish Welfare Fund
Crisis grants
Community care grants
17. Statutory adoption pay
Who can get statutory adoption pay
Amount of benefit
18. Universal credit
Who can get universal credit
Amount of benefit
Step 1: capital
Step 2: work out your maximum amount
Step 3: work out your earnings and how much can be ignored
Step 4: work out your other income and how much can be ignored
Step 5: calculate your total income
Step 6: calculate your universal credit entitlement
Claimant commitment
Monthly assessment period
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CPAG. "Chapter 1: Benefits." In
Children's Handbook Scotland 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed August 26, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267595CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 1: Benefits." In
Children's Handbook Scotland 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed August 26, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-267595CITANCHOR.
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Children's Handbook Scotland 2025/26
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September 8, 2025
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August 26, 2026
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