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Adult Disability Payment Scotland
- What is Adult Disability Payment Scotland?
- Can I get Adult Disability Payment Scotland?
- How much Adult Disability Payment Scotland will I get?
- How do I claim Adult Disability Payment Scotland?
- Transferring from Personal Independence Payment to Adult Disability Payment Scotland
- Adult Disability Payment and other benefits
- Apprenticeships and benefits
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Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
- What is the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
- Can I apply to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
- How much can I get from the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
- How do I apply to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
- How do I challenge an Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Decision?
- Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and Motability
- Armed Forces Independence Payment
- Asylum Seekers
- Attendance Allowance
- Basic State Pension
- Benefit Cap
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Benefit Changes Timetable
- Benefit changes timetable 2025
- Benefits Changes Timetable 2024
- Benefits Changes Timetable 2023
- Benefit Changes Timetable 2022
- Benefit Changes Timetable 2021
- Benefit Changes Timetable 2020
- Benefit Changes Timetable 2019
- Benefit Changes Timetable 2018
- Benefit Changes Timetable 2017
- Benefit Changes Timetable 2016
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Benefits Overpayment
- What is a Benefit Overpayment?
- What should I do if I think that I have been overpaid?
- Will I have to repay the overpayment?
- How is an overpayment recovered?
- Civil Penalties for benefit overpayments
- What if I don't think I've been overpaid?
- How do I avoid an overpayment of benefit?
- Housing Benefit Overpayments
- Council Tax Support Overpayments
- Bereaved
- Bereavement Support Payment
- Best Start Foods - Scotland
- Best Start Grants Scotland
- Bringing up a child
- Budgeting Loan/Advance
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Care homes and benefits
- Care homes and benefits
- Benefits that can be paid if you live in a care home
- Benefits that stop being paid if you live in a care home
- Benefits to help pay your rent, Council Tax or mortgage/home loan
- Carer's Allowance (for someone looking after you)
- Benefits for your children when you live in a care home
- Your partner's benefits when you live in a care home
- Benefits for your child when they live in a care home
- Frequently asked questions
- Care homes: Further information
- Care Leavers and Benefits
- Carer
- Carer's Allowance
- Carer's Credits
- Challenging a Budgeting Loan decision
- Challenging a Child Benefit or Guardian's Allowance decision
- Challenging a Council Tax Support decision
- Challenging a Housing Benefit decision
- Challenging a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Decision
- Challenging a Tax Credit decision
- Challenging an Employment and Support Allowance Decision
- Challenging Department for Work and Pensions benefit decisions
- Child Benefit
- Child Disability Payment Scotland
- Child Tax Credit
- Claiming Benefits
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Claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Start your Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim
- Get Personal Independence Payment (PIP) documents
- Fill in the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) form
- Send in the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) form
- Get ready for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) medical assessment
- Going to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) medical assessment
- Getting a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) decision
- When do Personal Independence Payment (PIP) payments start?
- Review or renew a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim
- Cold Weather Payment
- Complaints about your benefits claim
- Cost of Living
- Cost of Living Support
- Council Tax Discounts
- Council Tax Support/ Reduction
- Debt
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - children
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for adults
- Disabled Facilities Grants (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
- Disabled, ill or injured
- Discretionary Assistance Fund
- Discretionary Housing Payment
- Education Maintenance Allowance EMA - Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
- Emergency Information
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Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- What is Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
- Can I get Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
- How do I claim Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
- How much Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) will I get?
- Repeat claims for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- How do I challenge an Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) decision?
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA): Permitted Work
- Employment and Support Allowance time limit
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Energy schemes
- Extra help for 2023/24
- Extra help for 2022/23
- Help from your energy company
- Priority Services Register (Energy companies)
- Warm Home Discount Scheme (England, Scotland, Wales)
- Benefits - Winter Fuel Payments and Cold Weather Payments
- Help with energy efficiency measures
- Energy schemes: Useful resources
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European Union (EU) Settled Status Scheme
- What is the EU Settlement Scheme?
- I have EU settled status. What does this mean for my benefit entitlement?
- I have EU pre-settled status. What does this mean for my benefit entitlement?
- I have applied for EU Settlement Scheme and I'm still waiting for a decision
- I haven't applied for the EU Settlement Scheme
- I have arrived in the UK with leave to enter as a holder of an EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit
- Further information and advice
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First Tier Tribunal appeals process
- What is the First Tier Tribunal?
- How to start an appeal to the First Tier Tribunal
- What happens when your appeal form is received?
- Response from the Benefit or Tax Credit office
- The appeal hearing
- Oral hearing procedure
- Paper hearing
- Possible outcomes of tribunals
- If you still think the decision is wrong
- Foster carers and benefits
- Fraud Investigations
- Free school meals
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Full time students and benefits
- Who is a full-time student for benefit purposes?
- Can full-time students claim Universal Credit?
- Student income
- How much Universal Credit will I get?
- Can full-time students claim Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) or Income Support?
- Can full-time students get Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
- Can full-time students get Housing Benefit?
- Can full-time students claim disability benefits?
- Can full-time students get help with Council Tax?
- Full time students and other benefits
- Benefits during time out from study
- Further Information
- Funeral Payment
- Funeral Support Payment - Scotland
- Getting Into Work
- Guardian's Allowance
- Habitual Residence Test
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Hardship Payments
- What is a Hardship Payment?
- Jobseeker’s Allowance - Hardship Payments
- How much can I get from Jobseeker's Allowance hardship payments?
- How do I claim Jobseeker's Allowance Hardship Payments?
- Employment and Support Allowance Hardship Payments
- How much can I get from Employment and Support Allowance hardship payments?
- How do I claim Employment and Support Allowance Hardship Payments?
- Universal Credit Hardship Payments
- How much can I get from a Universal Credit hardship payment?
- How do I claim Universal Credit hardship payments
- Hardship Payments and Claiming Other Benefits or Tax Credits
- Challenging a hardship payment decision
- Healthy Start Food Vouchers - England, Wales, Northern Ireland
- Help from the local council if you are a carer
- Help from the local council if you are ill, injured or have a disability
- Help with Childcare Costs
- Help with health costs
- Help with housing costs
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Hospital and benefits
- Benefits in Hospital
- Benefits that stop being paid if you go into hospital
- Non-means tested benefits
- Carers
- Means-tested benefits when you go into hospital
- Statutory Sick Pay and Working Tax Credit
- Benefits to help pay your rent, Council Tax or mortgage/home loan
- Your partner's or carer's benefits when you go into hospital
- Benefits for your children
- Benefits for a child who is in hospital
- Claiming benefits when you go into hospital
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Adult Disability Payment and Attendance Allowance
- Help with the cost of travel to hospital
- Discharge from hospital
- Financial help
- Housing Benefit (England, Scotland and Wales)
- Housing Benefit (Northern Ireland)
- Immigration status and Benefits
- Income Support
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Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- What is Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit?
- Can I get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit?
- How much Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) will I get?
- How do I claim Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)
- How do I challenge an Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit decision?
- Job Start Payment - Scotland
- Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)
- Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) sanctions
- Maternity Allowance
- National insurance contributions (NIC)
- New State Pension
- Overlapping Benefits
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Overpayments under the Universal Credit system
- What is an overpayment under the Universal Credit system?
- What should I do if I think I have been overpaid?
- What will happen if I have been overpaid?
- Will I have to repay the overpayment?
- How is an overpayment recovered?
- Civil penalties for benefit overpayments
- What if I don't think I've been overpaid?
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Part time students and benefits
- Who is a part-time student for benefit purposes?
- Can part-time students claim Universal Credit?
- Can part-time students claim JSA or Income Support?
- Can part-time students get help with housing costs?
- Can part-time students claim disability benefits?
- Part-time students and other benefits
- Benefits during time out from study
- Further Information
- Pension and Retirement
- Pension Credit
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Personal Independence Payment
- What is Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
- Can I get Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
- How much Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will I get?
- How do I claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
- When does Personal Independence Payment (PIP) stop?
- How do I challenge a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) decision?
- When will I move from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
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Personal Independence Payment - PIP and Other Help
- Other help for people getting PIP
- I get PIP, what else can I get?
- I get the daily living component of PIP, what else can I get?
- I get the enhanced rate daily living component of PIP, what else can I get?
- I get the enhanced rate mobility of Personal Independence Payment ( PIP), what else can I get?
- I get the standard rate mobility of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), what else can I get?
- Personal Independence Payment - PIP Assessment
- Presence and Residence Tests
- Prisoner
- Prisoners - Partner in prison
- Prisoners on release
- Prisoners on remand
- Prisoners serving a sentence
- Refugees and others in the UK for protection
- Right to Reside
- Scottish Child Payment
- Scottish Welfare Fund
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Self employment and benefits
- Am I employed or self employed?
- Do I need to register as self employed?
- What benefits can I claim if I am self employed?
- Self employed people and national insurance
- How do I calculate my hours of work - self employment?
- How do I calculate my earnings - self employment?
- What if I have less work than usual?
- Can I get Working Tax Credit if I am self employed?
- Universal Credit and self employment
- Self employment and benefits: Frequently asked questions
- Severe Disability Premium
- Short Term Benefit Advance
- State Pension age changes
- Statutory Adoption Pay
- Statutory Maternity Pay
- Statutory Paternity Pay
- Statutory Shared Parental Pay
- Statutory Sick Pay
- Student Support
- Studying (aged 16+)
- Supplementary Payment
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Support for Mortgage Interest Loan
- What is Support for Mortgage Interest Loan?
- Can I get Support for Mortgage Interest Loan?
- How much Support for Mortgage Interest Loan will I get?
- How do I claim Support for Mortgage Interest Loan?
- How and when do I pay back the Support for Mortgage Interest Loan?
- How do I challenge a Support for Mortgage Interest Loan decision?
- Sure Start Maternity Grant
- Surplus Income Rules
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Tax Credits Overpayments
- What is an overpayment ?
- How would I know if I have been overpaid?
- What should I do if I think that I am being overpaid?
- Are all overpayments of tax credits recoverable?
- Who can the overpayment be recovered from?
- How are tax credit overpayments recovered?
- What if I can’t afford to repay?
- What should I do if I don't think I have been overpaid?
- What should I do if I think the overpayment was not my fault?
- How do I avoid a tax credit overpayment?
- Test page July 2025
- Travel costs: Disabled people and carers
- TV licensing, Telephone and Broadband Costs
- Universal Credit - How to Claim
- Universal Credit - Work Capability Assessment
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Universal Credit (UC)
- What is Universal Credit (UC)?
- Can I get Universal Credit (UC)?
- Do I need to claim Universal Credit?
- Switching from other benefits to Universal Credit
- How much Universal Credit (UC) will I get?
- Additional Elements of Universal Credit (UC)
- How will I be paid Universal Credit?
- How do I claim Universal Credit (UC)?
- What activities will I have to do when claiming Universal Credit?
- How do I challenge a Universal Credit (UC) decision?
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Universal Credit (UC) housing costs element
- What is the Universal Credit (UC) housing costs element?
- Can I get Universal Credit (UC) housing costs element?
- Universal Credit (UC): How much will I get? I'm a private tenant
- Universal Credit (UC): How much will I get? I'm a social tenant
- Universal Credit (UC): How much will I get? I'm a homeowner
- Universal Credit (UC): How much will I get? I have a shared ownership property
- Universal Credit (UC): What if I have another adult living with me?
- How will I be paid the Universal Credit (UC) housing costs element?
- Universal Credit (UC) income and capital
- Universal Credit (UC) transitional protection
- Universal Credit Advance
- Universal Credit Sanctions
- War Pensions Scheme
- Water schemes
- When Should I Start My Universal Credit Claim
- Widowed Parent's Allowance
- Winter Fuel Payment
- Work and Unemployment
- Work Capability Assessment
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Working hours: benefits rules
- Which benefits are affected by hours worked?
- How are benefits affected by hours worked?
- How do I calculate hours of paid work?
- Calculating work hours : Employees
- Calculating work hours: Self-employed people
- Calculating work hours: Maternity Leave
- Calculating work hours: Sick Leave
- Calculating work hours: Fluctuating hours of work
- Calculating work hours: Seasonal Workers
- Calculating work hours: Term Time Workers
- Working Tax Credit
- Young Carer Grant - Scotland
- Young People and Benefits
- Young person (aged 16-18)
- Information about Benefits
- Apply for Grants
- Our helpline
- Test page April 25
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