Changes to other benefits

If you get any of the following benefits, it could reduce the amount you get from Carer Support Payment:

• State Pension – learn more at GOV.UK
• Maternity Allowance – learn more at GOV.UK
• New Style Employment and Support Allowance – learn more at GOV.UK
• New Style Jobseeker’s Allowance – learn more at GOV.UK
• Incapacity Benefit – learn more at GOV.UK
• Severe Disablement Allowance – learn more at GOV.UK
• Widowed Parent’s Allowance – learn more at GOV.UK
• Unemployability Supplement (paid with War Pension)
• Unemployability Supplement (Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit - learn more at GOV.UK)
• War Pension Scheme: War Widows or War Widowers Pension – learn more at GOV.UK
• War Pension (Additional allowance for spouse element)
• Industrial Death Benefit
• Training Allowance - this is money the government or local council pays you to help cover your living expenses if you're on certain training schemes

You cannot get one of these benefits and the full amount of Carer Support Payment at the same time. This is because they're all designed to give you an income.

These benefits are the only benefits Social Security Scotland take into account when they work out how much Carer Support Payment you can get. 

If you get payments from a personal or workplace pension, this will not affect your Carer Support Payment.

Your other benefits do not affect the amount you can get from:

• Scottish Carer Supplement
• Carer Additional Person Payment

But you can only receive these payments if Social Security Scotland pays you Carer Support Payment.

Learn more about how other benefits can affect Carer Support Payment. 

Changes you need to tell Social Security Scotland about 

You need to tell Social Security Scotland if you get Carer Support Payment and:

• you start getting one of the benefits listed earlier on the page
• the amount you get from your other benefit changes
• you stop getting your other benefit

When you do not need to tell Social Security Scotland

Normally, some benefits payments increase each year. This is called 'annual uprating'. You do not need to tell Social Security Scotland about annual uprating on any benefits you get. They automatically take this into account each year. 

Information you need to give Social Security Scotland

When you tell Social Security Scotland about a change to your other benefits, they'll ask for some information about those benefits. 

Those details should be shown in the communication your benefit provider sent you when they told you about the change. For example, an award letter from the Department for Work and Pensions. 

It's best to have that communication to hand when you tell Social Security Scotland about a change. If you do not have the communication, contact Social Security Scotland. 

If you live with a partner

Your partner's income or benefits do not affect:

• your eligibility for Carer Support Payment
• how much Carer Support Payment you can get

So you do not need to tell us about any changes to your partner's income or benefits.

Find out how to tell Social Security Scotland about a change.