This factsheet sets out the main social security benefits and tax credits that lone parents in Scotland may be able to claim during a course of education.
This factsheet looks at when parents in work can get help with childcare costs through working tax credit or universal credit. It also looks at other sources of help and the interaction with tax credits or universal credit.
Information for people over 18 who have received a universal credit (UC) sanction because they have not met their work-related requirements. The rules on sanctions are different for 16–17-year-olds and for those on other benefits. Any benefit that has work-related requirements can be sanctioned.