Who can get Carer's Allowance Supplement

To get Carer's Allowance Supplement you must:

• live in Scotland on a particular date or have a genuine and sufficient link to Scotland 
• be getting Carer's Allowance payments on a particular date

The person you care for does not have to live in Scotland.

Dates

If you're getting Carer's Allowance on 11 April 2022 you should get a Carer's Allowance Supplement payment on 10 June 2022.
If you were getting Carer's Allowance on 11 October 2021, and did not receive a Carer's Allowance Supplement payment in December 2021, you'll get this payment as part of the June 2022 Carer's Allowance Supplement payments.

If you do not get Carer's Allowance

You must get Carer's Allowance to get Carer's Allowance Supplement. If you want to, you can find out more about what benefits you could get.

Some people do not get Carer's Allowance because they get other benefits instead. This is called an 'underlying entitlement'.

You will not get Carer's Allowance Supplement if you have an underlying entitlement to Carer's Allowance.