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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2026/27
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22 Jul 2026
Part 5: Special benefit rules
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2026/27
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Part 5: Special benefit rules
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Part 5: Special benefit rules
Chapter 36: Benefits for students
Key facts
1. Universal credit
Receiving education
Who is entitled to universal credit while receiving education
When someone else can claim for you
Your work-related requirements
Studying part time
How student income affects universal credit
Grants
Student loans
Calculating student income
Taking time out from your course
Giving up your course
2. Housing benefit
Full-time students
Sandwich courses
Health-related courses
Modular courses
Full-time students who are entitled to housing benefit
Being away from your term-time accommodation
Maintaining two homes
Part-time students
Partners of students
How student income affects housing benefit
Grants
Calculating grant income
Grant income that is ignored
Loans
Calculating income from a student loan
Loan income that is ignored
The period over which loan income is taken into account
Income from other types of loan
Discretionary funds and other payments
A single lump-sum payment
Payments made in instalments
Payments before course starts or student loan received
Other sources of income intended to cover study costs
Once you have left your course
3. Other benefits
Carer’s allowance
Carer support payment
New-style employment and support allowance
New-style jobseeker's allowance
National insurance credits
Chapter 37: Benefits in hospital, care homes, prison and in other special circumstances
Key facts
1. Hospital patients
Who counts as a patient
The days on which you count as a patient
Disability benefits
Carer's allowance and carer support payment
Universal credit
Single claimants
Couples
Children
Other means-tested benefits
If your, or your partner's, disability benefit stops
If your carer's allowance or carer support payment stops
Pension credit child amounts
If a hospital stay lasts for more than 52 weeks
Other benefits
Child benefit
New-style employment and support allowance
New-style jobseeker's allowance
Winter fuel payment and pension age heating payment
Scottish child payment
Paying for your usual home
Partners, children and non-dependants
2. People in care homes and similar accommodation
Disability benefits
Exceptions
If you are self-funding
Days on which you count as being resident in a care home
How other benefits are affected
Universal credit
Single claimants
Couples
Children
Other means-tested benefits
Housing benefit for your care home
Partners and children
Social fund payments and pension age winter heating payment
Child winter heating payment and winter heating payment
Scottish child payment
Paying for your usual home
Partners, children and non-dependants
3. Prisoners
Non-means-tested benefits
Statutory sick, maternity, adoption, paternity and other parental pay
Other non-means-tested benefits
Universal credit
Couples
Children
Other means-tested benefits
Partners and children
Social fund payments and pension age winter heating payment
If you are detained under mental health legislation
Community sentences
If you are on bail or living in approved premises
Benefits on release
Help with travelling expenses
Paying for your usual home
Universal credit housing costs
Housing benefit and pension credit
Partners, children and non-dependants
4. 16/17-year-old care leavers
Who is excluded from universal credit
Who is not excluded from universal credit
5. People without accommodation
Jobseeking conditions and claimant responsibilities
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CPAG. "Part 5: Special benefit rules." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2026/27.
, 2026. Accessed August 26, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-270245CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Part 5: Special benefit rules." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2026/27.
, 2026. Accessed August 26, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-270245CITANCHOR.
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CPAG
Title:
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2026/27
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CPAG
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Publication date:
March 11, 2026
Date accessed:
August 26, 2026
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https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-270245CITANCHOR
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