Benefits - Young Carer Grant

Young Carer Grant is an annual payment available for young people with caring responsibilities in Scotland aged 16, 17 or 18 years old.

You must have been caring for 1, 2 or 3 people who get a disability benefit from the Department for Work and Pensions for an average of 16 hours a week for at least the last 3 months. If you care for more than one person, you can combine the hours of the people you care for to average 16 hours a week.

You may be eligible to apply for the Young Carer Grant if all of the following apply:

• You live in Scotland
• You're 16, 17 or 18 years old
• You've been caring for one or more people for around 16 hours a week, for the last 3 months
• The person or people you care for receives certain benefits
• You're not being paid to care for someone you will use in your application as part of your job
• You're not helping care for the people you apply for as a volunteer, for example as part of a care group or charity
• You're not already getting Carer's Allowance from the Department for Work and Pensions, or Northern Ireland's Carer's Allowance

The person or people you care for must have been getting one or more of these benefits for at least the last 3 months:

• The daily living component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
• The middle or highest care rate of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), including Child Disability Living Allowance
• The middle or highest care rate of Child Disability Payment
• Attendance Allowance
• Armed Forces Independence Payment
• Constant Attendance Allowance

If a person you care for gets Constant Attendance Allowance, they need to be getting either:

• Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (at or above the normal maximum rate), or

• War Disablement Pension (at the basic rate)

• Apply online: here
• By phone: Call 0800 182 2222 Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm.
• By post: Call 0800 182 2222 to request an application

Find out more here

The Welfare Support Team provide free, impartial and confidential support to claim all benefits and entitlements including Young Carer Grant. Contact the Welfare Support Team by telephone: 0800 090 1004 or email: welfare.support@highland.gov.uk