Responsibility for benefits: overview

Benefits devolved to the Scottish Government

• Ill Health and Disability Benefits:
  • Disability Living Allowance
  • Personal Independence Payment
  • Attendance Allowance
  • Severe Disablement Allowance
  • Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
• Carers Allowance
• Sure Start Maternity Grant (replaced by the Best Start Grant)
• Funeral Expenses
• Cold Weather Payments and Winter Fuel Payments
• Discretionary Housing Payments
• Some powers in relation to Universal Credit (e.g. the ability to split payments between household members)

Benefits that remain reserved to the UK Government

• Universal Credit, which replaces:
  • Jobseeker's Allowance
  • Employment Support Allowance
  • Income Support
  • Working Tax Credits
  • Child Tax Credits
  • Housing Benefit
• Contributory Job Seeker's Allowance
• Contributory Employment Support Allowance
• Child Benefit
• Maternity Allowance
• State Pension
• Pension Credit
• Bereavement benefits:
  • Bereavement Allowance
  • Bereavement Payment
  • Widowed Parents Allowance