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💷 Benefits Guide

What Benefits Can I Claim in Scotland?

Adult Disability Payment, Carer Support Payment, Scottish Child Payment and the UK benefits that still apply.

✅ Last verified: 24 September 2026 📚 Sources: listed at the end, each checked on the date shown 🇬🇧 Scotland

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Who this guide is for

People in Scotland who want to know which benefits they may be able to claim, and who can claim each one. Some benefits come from Social Security Scotland, and some still come from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) or HM Revenue and Customs.

What this guide does not cover

People in England, Wales or Northern Ireland: see the England and Wales guide or the Northern Ireland guide.
How much you would get: this guide gives no benefit amounts. Use a benefits calculator (see Where to go for help).
Losing your job, New Style JSA and Universal Credit amounts: use the unemployment checker.
Challenging a Universal Credit decision: use the Universal Credit appeals checker.
Complaints about how a benefits office treated you: use the benefits complaints checker.
Tax on foster care payments: use the foster carers checker.
State Pension amounts, students, people from abroad and people in prison or a care home. Ask a free adviser.

⚖ At a glance

Adult Disability Payment has replaced PIP in Scotland. It is for people aged 16 to State Pension age with a disability, long-term health condition or terminal illness.
Pension Age Disability Payment has replaced Attendance Allowance in Scotland. Carer Support Payment has replaced Carer's Allowance. Child Disability Payment replaced Disability Living Allowance for children.
Scottish Child Payment is for people getting Universal Credit or certain other benefits who are the main person looking after a child under 16.
These Scottish benefits are paid by Social Security Scotland: 0800 182 2222.
Universal Credit, New Style JSA and ESA, Pension Credit and Child Benefit work the same way as in England and Wales. You usually cannot get Universal Credit with more than £16,000 in savings.

The questions that decide the answer

Where do you live? Scotland: this guide. England and Wales, and Northern Ireland, have their own guides.
How old are you? 16 to State Pension age: Adult Disability Payment may apply. State Pension age or over: Pension Age Disability Payment and Pension Credit may apply.
Do you have a health condition or disability? Adult Disability Payment, Pension Age Disability Payment, or Child Disability Payment for a child.
Do you care for someone for 35 hours a week or more? Carer Support Payment may apply.
Do you get Universal Credit or another qualifying benefit, and look after a child under 16? Scottish Child Payment may apply.

"I have a health condition or disability"

Adult Disability Payment is for people between 16 and State Pension age who have a disability, a long-term physical or mental health condition, or a terminal illness. You can apply even if you are waiting for a diagnosis. You cannot get PIP and Adult Disability Payment at the same time.

Pension Age Disability Payment is for people of State Pension age with care needs because of a disability, long-term health condition or terminal illness. It is not means-tested.

Child Disability Payment is for a disabled child who lives in Scotland. An adult with parental responsibilities or a guardian applies for them.

"I look after someone"

Carer Support Payment is for people aged 16 or over who provide 35 hours or more of unpaid care a week to someone getting certain disability benefits, and whose earnings are under the limit. If you still get Carer's Allowance and have not had a letter about moving over, contact Social Security Scotland.

"I have children"

Scottish Child Payment: you may get it if you live in Scotland, you or your partner are the main person looking after a child under 16, and you or your partner get Universal Credit or income-based JSA (or you get Pension Credit, Income Support or income-related ESA). Child Benefit on its own does not count. You can apply if you have applied for a qualifying benefit and are waiting.

Child Benefit is for people responsible for bringing up a child who is under 16, or under 20 if they stay in approved education or training.

"I'm on a low income, out of work or over State Pension age"

Universal Credit covers people on a low income or out of work. Your partner's income and savings count. Savings under £6,000 do not affect it, and you usually cannot get it with more than £16,000.

Pension Credit gives extra money if you are over State Pension age and on a low income, even if you have other income, savings or own your home.

Deadlines you must meet

This guide sets out no deadline for claiming. If you think you qualify, apply.
Challenging a DWP decision (for example Universal Credit): use the Universal Credit appeals checker. Social Security Scotland decisions have their own process: ask Social Security Scotland or Citizens Advice Scotland.

Money figures

Universal Credit: savings under £6,000 do not count; above £16,000 you usually cannot get it. This guide gives no benefit amounts.

Where to go for help

Social Security Scotland: 0800 182 2222, or apply on mygov.scot.

Benefits calculators: GOV.UK lists independent, free and anonymous calculators (entitledto, Turn2us and Policy in Practice).

Help with Council Tax: use the council tax checker.

Citizens Advice Scotland: 0800 028 1456

Traps

In Scotland, do not apply for PIP, Attendance Allowance or Carer's Allowance: the Scottish replacements are Adult Disability Payment, Pension Age Disability Payment and Carer Support Payment.
Child Benefit alone does not qualify you for Scottish Child Payment.
Universal Credit, Pension Credit and Child Benefit are still UK benefits in Scotland.
If you move to Scotland from elsewhere in the UK, tell the benefit office and apply to Social Security Scotland for the Scottish replacement.

📜 Sources (checked 24 September 2026)

mygov.scot: Who can apply for Adult Disability Payment; Scottish Child Payment - who should apply; Moving from Carer's Allowance to Carer Support Payment.
Social Security Scotland: Carer Support Payment has replaced Carer's Allowance in Scotland; Pension Age Disability Payment is replacing Attendance Allowance in Scotland (October 2025); Carer Support Payment factsheet (March 2025).
gov.scot: Social security assistance in Scotland - up-rating for inflation 2026-27 (Child Disability Payment replaced DLA for children).
GOV.UK: Benefits calculators; Pension Credit and Child Benefit overviews. Reused from the unemployment guide: Universal Credit savings rules.
Citizens Advice Scotland number reused from earlier guides (checked 24 September 2026).

⚠ Important disclaimer: This guide covers benefits you may be able to claim in Scotland as at 24 September 2026. General legal information only, not legal advice. ukworkrights.co.uk — Not a law firm.

What Benefits Can I Claim in Scotland?

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Who this guide is for

What this guide does not cover

⚖ At a glance

The questions that decide the answer

"I have a health condition or disability"

"I look after someone"

"I have children"

"I'm on a low income, out of work or over State Pension age"

Deadlines you must meet

Money figures

Where to go for help

Traps

📜 Sources (checked 24 September 2026)

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What Benefits Can I Claim in Scotland?

💬 Check your own situation

Who this guide is for

What this guide does not cover

⚖ At a glance

The questions that decide the answer

"I have a health condition or disability"

"I look after someone"

"I have children"

"I'm on a low income, out of work or over State Pension age"

Deadlines you must meet

Money figures

Where to go for help

Traps

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