For a spouse or person looking after children with:
State Pension on your own NI contributions and
Unemployability Supplement
Carer's Allowance
Severe Disablement Allowance
Long-term Incapacity Benefit
short-term Incapacity Benefit if you are under state pension age
short-term Incapacity Benefit if you are over state pension age
Maternity Allowance
£47.65
£26.50
£26.65
£44.35
£34.60
£42.65
£34.60
Carer's Allowance - you can earn up to £79.00
(after allowable expenses) before it affects your benefit
If you are getting Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement
Allowance you may be able to earn up to a permitted work limit of £20 or £72.00
without it affecting their benefit.
If you are getting State Pension or a widow's benefit, you can earn
any amount without any effect on these benefits. But if you are getting
Income Support on top of either of them, any earnings could reduce your Income Support and therefore the total amount of money you will get.
If your adult dependent lives with you, you will not get paid an
addition if they earn more than the appropriate amount below:
State Pension
Severe Disablement Allowance
Unemployability Supplement standard rate
If your claim for extra benefit dates from before
16 September 1985 and you are a man with
Carer's Allowance
long-term Incapacity Benefit
short-term Incapacity Benefit if you are over state pension age
short-term Incapacity Benefit if you are under state pension age
none of these
If your dependent adult does not live with you the limits are:
State Pension
long-term Incapacity benefit
Unemployability Supplement
with Severe Disablement Allowance
£55.65
£55.65
£55.65
£26.50
£55.65
£42.65
£34.60
£45.09
£47.65
£44.35
£47.65
£26.65
Your dependent child's additions paid with benefits may be
affected if your spouse or partner lives with you and earns more
than:
for first child £165.00
for each extra child add on £211.00
For benefit claims made since 26 November 1984, an occupational pension
paid to your partner counts as earnings