TCM0120180 | Eligibility - income (other than earnings): Income - students (Info)

Student income means

• in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, a dependant’s grant payable to full-time students with a dependant adult

• in Scotland, a dependant’s grant payable to full-time students with a dependant adult or child, although the following elements of that grant are disregarded

• the additional allowance paid to students who if they have a dependant child are eligible for a childcare grant

and

• the grant for books, travel and equipment for students with dependant children.

When calculating student income for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland disregard in full

• student loans

• all other grants, for example to meet the cost of tuition fees, childcare, school meals and so on

• payments from Hardship Funds

• access and opportunity bursaries

• disabled student allowances

• scholarship income exempt from income tax

• interest on reimbursement of student loan repayments exempt from income tax

• in Northern Ireland, also disregard low income bursaries for Further and Higher Education Students

• in Scotland, also disregard income related bursaries

• in Wales, also disregard income related grants.