Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook - online version

The Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook 2007/08 is the most comprehensive guide to benefits and tax credits for students in Scotland. 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. Additional copies can be purchased from CPAG.

ABOUT THE HANDBOOK

With student support in Scotland becoming increasingly distinct from support available in the rest of the UK, this Handbook is designed to explain how Scottish grants and loans are treated under the benefit and tax credit system.

Written for advisers, cross-referenced to the law and with easy to use checklists and examples, the Handbook explains:

• benefit and tax credit rights for full-time and part-time students;
• how Scottish grants and loans affect benefit;
• how much income support and housing benefit is paid in term time and vacations;
• studying and claiming jobseeker's allowance;
• studying and claiming benefits for ill health and disability;
• benefits and tax credits for students with children;
• lone parents' rights to benefits and tax credits.

This online version of the 2007/08 handbook has been updated as of the end of May 2008 with:

• benefit rates from April 2008
• other significant changes since August 2007
• some information on forthcoming changes for lone parents (chapter 1)
• some information on the forthcoming employment and support allowance (chapters 1, 10 and 17)

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