Social Security Scotland

Our services

• Adult Disability Payment

  Support if you have a disability or long-term health condition that affects your everyday life in Scotland.

• Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods

  Cash payments to help people in Scotland with some of the costs of having children and a payment card for food.

• Carer's Allowance Supplement

  An extra payment for carers in Scotland who already get Carer's Allowance on a particular date.

• Carer Support Payment

  A benefit to help you if you're a carer in Scotland.

• Child Disability Payment

  Provides support for the extra costs that a child with a disability in Scotland might have.

• Child Winter Heating Payment

  A payment to help disabled children and young people and their families with increased heating costs over winter.

• Funeral Support Payment

  Money to help pay for funeral and burial or cremation costs if you live in Scotland.

• Job Start Payment

  A benefit to help you with the costs of starting a new job if you live in Scotland.

• Scottish Child Payment

  An extra payment every 4 weeks for each child under 6 years of age in Scotland, if the family already gets other support.

• Winter Heating Payment

  A payment to help people on low income benefits who might have extra heating costs over winter.

• Young Carer Grant

  An annual payment for 16, 17 and 18 year olds in Scotland who give care to someone else.