child benifit and Child tax credits while posted abroad

mummyfleming

Hello. My husband is in RAF and we have just moved to cyprus. I was wondering if anyone here know if we are still allowed to claim Child benifit and start claiming tax credits out here???

toonbaz

as far as i'm aware as he is in the forces you should have no problems claiming for both child benefit and tax credits

toonbaz

from tax credits website

When you work for the UK Government, for example, as a civil servant or a member of the armed forces you're a Crown Servant. If you have to work abroad you may be able to claim tax credits, just as if you were living in the UK. The Tax Credit Office will treat you as being in the UK if any of the following applies:

• Just before you were posted abroad, you were 'ordinarily resident' in the UK.
• You've had a series of postings abroad and you were 'ordinarily resident' in the UK immediately before the first of those postings.
• You were in the UK just before you were posted abroad and the reason you were in the UK was connected to your posting. This can apply to a single posting or to a series of postings.

this is the same for child benefit, there is a specific section on application for members of armed forces.