Benefits not included in the cap
The following benefits are not included in the cap:
- bereavement support payment
- Best Start grants (Scotland)
- budgeting loans
- carer’s allowance
- cold weather payments
- council tax reduction
- Discretionary Assistance Fund payments (Wales)
- discretionary housing payments
- Discretionary Support Payments (Northern Ireland)
- employment and support allowance, if you get the support component
- free school meals
- funeral expenses payments
- funeral support payments (Scotland)
- guardian’s allowance
- local welfare assistance payments (England)
- pension credit
- Scottish Welfare Fund payments
- state pension
- statutory adoption pay
- statutory maternity pay
- statutory paternity pay
- statutory parental bereavement pay
- statutory shared parental pay
- statutory sick pay
- Sure Start maternity grants
- working tax credit
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26 February 2021
