Advice and assistance: calculating eligibility on income - disregarded benefits

Do not include:

  • Adoption Allowance
  • Adult Disability Payment (ADP)
  • Armed Forces Independence Payment
  • Attendance Allowance
  • Bereavement Allowance
  • Bereavement Payment
  • Care (Invalid) Allowance
  • Child Benefit
  • Child Disability Payments (CDP)
  • Child Tax Credit
  • Child Maintenance Bonus
  • Child Support Maintenance (only if paid through the Child Support Agency)
  • Christmas Bonus
  • Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance
  • Contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
  • Council Tax Benefit
  • Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
  • Foster Care Allowance
  • Guardian’s Allowance
  • Housing Benefit
  • Incapacity Benefit (Incap)
  • Industrial Injuries Disablement Pension (IIDP)
  • Kinship Carers Allowance
  • Payment under Part 4 of the Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care (Scotland) Act 2021)
  • Pension Credit
  • Personal Independence Payment
  • Scottish Child Payment
  • Severe Disablement Allowance
  • Short Term assistance payments while ADP is under appeal
  • Short Term Assistance Payments while Child Disability Payment award is under appeal
  • Sickness Benefit
  • State Retirement Pension
  • Statutory Maternity Pay (non-occupational)
  • Statutory Sick Pay (non-occupational)
  • Sums payable to holders of the Victoria Cross or George Cross
  • War Disablement Pension
  • War Widow’s/Widower’s Pension
  • Widowed Parent’s Allowance
  • Windrush Compensation Payment
  • Working Tax Credit
  • Any payment made under the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme
  • Any additional payment made under the Social Security (Additional Payments) Act 2022 (cost of living)
  • Any temporary additional amount to the social fund winter fuel payment paid by virtue of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations 2022 (cost of living).