Care and support

Going into hospital

These pages tell you what happens to your benefits when you go into hospital. If you are getting any benefits it is your responsibility to tell whoever pays these benefits when you have a stay in hospital. Failure to notify this change in your circumstances can lead to you being paid too much benefit and if you are overpaid, you may have to pay this back.

When you are in hospital some social security benefits are reduced or stopped. This could happen after 4 weeks, 12 weeks or 52 weeks.

If you are a hospital in-patient detained under s45A or s47 of the Mental Health Act, you are not entitled to receive benefits.