Social security benefits that are not taxable
Based on HMRC manuals, the following benefits are not taxable. This means they can be tagged as personal, or left untagged in "untied".
- Adult Disability Payment, administered by the Scottish Government
- Attendance Allowance
- Bereavement Support Payment
- Best start grant
- Child Benefit
- Child Tax Credit
- Cold Weather Payments, see also Winter Fuel payment
- Council Tax Benefit, administered by local authorities
- Council Tax Rebate Discretionary Fund (including any corresponding scheme or grant in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland)
- Constant Attendance Allowance, see industrial disablement benefit below
- Disability Living Allowance
- Discretionary housing payment
- Discretionary support award
- Flexible support fund payment
- Funeral expenses payment (previously known as Funeral Expense Assistance)
- Guardian’s Allowance
- Household Support Fund Grant (including any corresponding scheme or grant in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland)
- Incapacity benefit for first 28 weeks of entitlement, taxable thereafter
- Industrial Injuries Benefit, a general term covering industrial injuries pension, reduced earnings allowance, retirement allowance, constant attendance allowance and exceptionally severe disablement allowance
- In-work emergency discretion fund payment
- Maternity Allowance
- Payments out of the Social Fund to people on a low income to help with maternity expenses, funeral costs, financial crises and as community care grants. The fund also makes interest-free loans.
- Payments to reduce under-occupation by housing benefit claimants
- Payment under a council tax reduction scheme
- Pensioner’s Christmas Bonus
- Personal Independence Payment
- Reduced Earnings Allowance, see industrial disablement benefit above
- State Pension credit
- Universal Credit
- War Widow’s pension
- Welfare supplementary payment payable pursuant to a reduction in the amount payable of State Pension credit
- Welfare supplementary payment payable pursuant to a reduction in the amount payable of State Pension tax credit
- Welfare supplementary payment payable pursuant to a reduction in the amount payable of Working Tax Credit
- Welfare supplementary payment payable pursuant to a reduction of the amount payable of employment and support allowance
- Welfare supplementary payment payable pursuant to a reduction of the amount payable of housing benefit
- Welfare supplementary payment payable pursuant to the loss of Disability Living Allowance
- Winter Fuel payment
- Working Tax Credit
- Young carer grant
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