Carer's Allowance Supplement
type: Dataset
theme: Economic Activity, Benefits and Tax Credits
timeliness: These statistics are updated twice a year, once for each eligibility date. These updates coincide with our [quarterly publications on people in receipt of Carer's Allowance](https://www.gov.scot/collections/social-security-scotland-stats-publications/#carer'sallowanceandcarer'sallowancesupplementstatistics).
validity: Not assessed
accuracy: To take account of backdating, each eligibility scan identifies those people that have retrospective entitlement for previous Carer's Allowance Supplement eligibility dates. The data in this publication includes those found to be eligible during the latest scan for any of the eligibility dates from April 2018 onwards. The statistics for the latest eligibility date will not include retrospective entitlement until the next eligibility scan. Future scans may continue to identify additional people who are retrospectively entitled for any previous eligibility date. Because of this, there may be an undercount for the latest eligibility date, and smaller undercounts for earlier eligibility dates. Gender data are based on 'title'. Title was supplied for every carer. 'Unknown' gender includes carers with titles where gender cannot be identified, i.e. 'Dr', 'Rev' and 'Captain'. Age is based on age at the eligibility date. In a very small number of cases age band is 'unknown'. A small number of carers have 'unknown' local authority due to their supplied postcodes not matching the postcode address file used for statistical analysis. These 'unknown' values are included in the Scotland value. Payments figures have been rounded to the nearest five, and expenditure figures to the nearest £1,000 for disclosure control. The percent of payments are displayed to one decimal place. Due to the inclusion of 'unknown' local authorities and rounding, the sum of local authority values do not sum to the Scotland value.
consistency: The eligibility for Carer's Allowance Supplement is dependent on a person being in payment of Carer's Allowance on the eligibility date. The data is therefore similar to the [Carer's Allowance statistics](https://www.gov.scot/collections/social-security-scotland-stats-publications/#carer'sallowanceandcarer'sallowancesupplementstatistics) published by the Scottish Government. and [DWP](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwp-statistical-summaries). However, there are a number of differences between these two sets of data. The key differences are: \u2022 Reference date - Carer's Allowance Supplement data refers to eligibility dates which are in mid-April or mid-October each year. Carer's Allowance data refers to the end of February, May, August or November each year. \u2022 Backdating - Carer's Allowance Supplement data is taken from scans carried out around six weeks after each eligibility date, except for the April 2018 eligibility date where the scan was run in August 2018. Therefore the April 2018 data has more than seven months of backdating and all other data has one month of backdating. Carer's Allowance data includes up to four months of backdating. \u2022 Eligibility - all those who receive a payment of Carer's Allowance on the eligibility date will receive Carer's Allowance Supplement. This will include eligible carers who subsequently become entitled to a payment, including cases which may have temporarily been suspended from payment. DWP data will exclude those who are later found to be ineligible for Carer's Allowance as part of their backdating adjustments. \u2022 Geography - DWP use different postcode address files to identify those who receive Carer's Allowance who are living in Scottish postcodes. The Carer's Allowance data is available in more detail on Stat-Xplore, where you can access data at [lower geographies e.g. Local Authority, Census Output Area, Scottish and Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies](https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webap…
uniqueness: Not assessed
completeness: Not assessed
comment: Carer's Allowance Supplement payments- number, percentage and expenditure. National values are broken down by age, gender and local authority.
update frequency: annual
license id: uk-ogl
confidentiality: This data contains no sensitive, personal information.
quality management: DWP holds information on those in payment of Carer's Allowance, and it runs a scan of this data twice a year to identify those eligible for Carer's Allowance Supplement on each of the eligibility dates. Scans are run around six weeks after each eligibility date. It then securely transfers the necessary data to Social Security Scotland to allow them to make Carer's Allowance Supplement payments. In some instances, payment of Carer's Allowance can be backdated, which may mean that someone who did not receive Carer's Allowance on the eligibility date is later considered to have been eligible on that date. In order to capture these people, each scan of the DWP data will identify people who have retrospective entitlement to earlier eligibility dates, as well as identifying those in receipt of Carer's Allowance on the most recent eligibility date. Social Security Scotland will then pay Carer's Allowance Supplement for one or more periods of eligibility as determined by the data transfer.
geographical coverage: S92
will be updated: true
reference period: PeriodOfTime
  start date: 2018
  end date: 2022
next update: 2023-09-01
description: The Carer's Allowance Supplement (CAS) is given to people in Scotland who receive Carer's Allowance on the Carer's Allowance Supplement eligibility dates. These are two dates each year- one in April and one in October, which are set by the Scottish Government. The Scotland Act 2016 gives Scottish Parliament powers over a number of social security benefits which had been administered to Scottish claimants by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In September 2018, Carer's Allowance became the first of these benefits to have executive competency transferred from DWP to Social Security Scotland, the executive agency of Scottish Government which is responsible for delivering the social security benefits for Scotland. These statistics cover payments for those eligible for Carer's Allowance Supplement from the April 2018 to the October 2022 eligibility date. [The full publication and table](https://www.gov.scot/collections/social-security-scotland-stats-publications/#carer'sallowanceandcarer'sallowancesupplementstatistics) are available.
version notes: Revisions and corrections to previously published statistics are dealt with in accordance with the Scottish Government Statistician Group corporate policy statement on revisions and corrections - a copy of which is available on the [Scottish Government website](https://www.gov.scot/publications/producing-official-statistics/pages/revisions-and-corrections/).
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modified: 2026-08-13T13:05:57.598848
contact point: Organization
contact point: Kind

Economic Activity, Benefits and Tax Credits
type: Concept

Scottish Government
type: Agent

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access URL: https://admin.data.gov.scot/resource/54a4dbbd-216c-496c-86cb-3402de6db9f0/download
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modified: 2026-08-13T13:05:57.622779