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Hospital and benefits - Means-tested benefits when you go into hospital

When you or a member of your family go into or come out of hospital, the welfare benefits you get may change. What will happen to your benefits depends on the type of benefit you get. A stay in hospital can also affect the benefits your partner or carer gets.

  1. 1. Benefits in hospital
  2. 2. Benefits that stop being paid if you go into hospital
  3. 3. Non-means tested benefits
  4. 4. Carers
  5. 5. Means-tested benefits when you go into hospital
  6. 6. Statutory Sick Pay and Working Tax Credit
  7. 7. Benefits to help pay your rent, Council Tax or mortgage/home loan
  8. 8. Your partner's or carer's benefits when you go into hospital
  1. 9. Benefits for your children
  2. 10. Benefits for a child who is in hospital
  3. 11. Claiming benefits when you go into hospital
  4. 12. Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Attendance Allowance
  5. 13. Help with the cost of travel to hospital
  6. 14. Discharge from hospital
  7. 15. Financial help

Means-tested benefits when you go into hospital

If any of the benefits you get are paid because you have low income and savings, they may go down after 28 days and go down again or stop after 52 weeks in hospital. 

This applies to these benefits:

If you are getting Universal Credit, the amount you get may go down after you have been in hospital for six months. 


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