Benefits not included in the cap

Benefit cap

The following benefits are not included in the cap:

• bereavement support payment
• Best Start grants (Scotland)
• budgeting loans
• carer’s allowance
• carer's allowance supplement (Scotland)
• 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 child payment
• 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
• young carer grant (Scotland)

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