Taxable benefits include:
- Bereavement Allowance previously known as Widows Pension
- certain payments of Incapacity Benefit
- contributions-based Employment and Support Allowance
- Income Support when paid to strikers or people involved in a trade dispute
- Pensions payable under the Industrial Death Benefit scheme
- Carer's Allowance
- Jobseeker's Allowance
- The state pension
- Graduated retirement benefit
- Statutory Sick Pay
- Statutory Maternity Pay
- Statutory Paternity Pay
- Statutory Adoption Pay
- Widowed Parent's Allowance
- Widow's pension paid to widows whose entitlement arose before 9 April 2001
Non-taxable benefits include:
- Attendance Allowance
- back to work bonus
- bereavement payment
- Child Benefit
- Child's Special Allowance
- Child Tax Credit
- cold weather payments
- Council Tax reduction
- Constant Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance
- Guardian's Allowance
- Housing Benefit
- Incapacity Benefit for the first 28 weeks of entitlement
- Income Support, unless paid while on strike
- Industrial Injuries Benefit
- Invalidity Benefit
- In-work credit
- In-work emergency discretion fund payment
- In-work emergency fund payment
- Maternity Allowance
- New Enterprise Allowance
- pensioner's Christmas bonus
- Pension Credit
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Reduced Earnings Allowance
- Retirement Allowance
- Return to work credit, including the self-employment credit
- Severe Disablement Allowance
- Universal Credit
- War pension, including any care or mobility supplements
- War Widow's pension
- Winter Fuel payment
- Working Tax Credit
These lists are not exhaustive.