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Benefits for students in Scotland handbook | Online
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The Benefits for students in Scotland handbook 2009/10 is the most comprehensive guide to benefits and tax credits for students in Scotland. It explains how Scottish grants and loans are treated under the benefit and tax credit system. It is written for advisers, cross-referenced to the law and contains checklists and examples.

Published by CPAG with the National Union of Students (NUS), it is supplied automatically to NUS-affiliated student unions, higher education and further education colleges and Citizens Advice Bureaux in Scotland. Click here » to purchase additional copies from CPAG.

This online version of the 2009/10 handbook is up-to-date as of 1 August 2009. Rates of grants and loans used are those for the 2009/10 academic year. Benefit and tax credit rates used are those from April 2009.

New information since the previous edition includes:

  • how income affects tax credits (chapter 16)
  • how income affects health benefits (chapter 17)
  • up-to-date rules on income support for lone parents (chapter 8)
  • a new section in each benefit chapter on challenging a decision
Children’s handbook Scotland | Online
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The Children’s handbook Scotland is the first comprehensive guide to benefits and tax credits where children are living away from their parents. This includes children who are in kinship or foster care, or looked after by the local authority, or at residential school, in residential care or hospital. It includes practical examples and easy to use checklists, and is fully referenced to legislation and caselaw.

Chapters include: Benefits and tax credits; Claims, decisions and challenges; Children in hospital; Disabled children in care homes; Disabled children at residential school; Children who are ‘looked after and accommodated’; Children living with kinship carers; Children living with foster carers; Adoption; and Young people leaving care.

All Citizens Advice Bureaux in Scotland have been supplied with a printed copy. Click here » to purchase additional copies from CPAG.

This online version of the 2009/10 handbook is up to date as of 12 September 2009.