Prisoners serving a sentence - Benefits you can't get - Serving a sentence
Check how to manage your benefits if you're a prisoner serving a sentence
- Last reviewed 03 September 2024
Benefits you can't get - Serving a sentence
While you are in prison, you are not entitled in your own right, or as part of someone else’s claim, to:
- Income Support
- Pension Credit
- Employment and Support Allowance
- Jobseeker's Allowance
- Severe Disablement Allowance
- Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance
- Carer's Allowance
- Maternity Allowance
- Reduced Earnings Allowance
- State Pension
- Bereavement Benefits
- Statutory Sick Pay
- Statutory Maternity Pay
- Statutory Adoption Pay
- Statutory Paternity Pay
- Winter Fuel Payment
You can continue getting Personal Independence Payment or Adult Disability Payment Scotland for the first 28 days you are in prison. After that the benefit will stop. If you were awarded PIP or ADP while you were a prisoner, you are not paid until you’re released from prison.
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