16 year olds benefits?

alluring29

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Believe it or not, up to the 20th birthday, which applies to Child Tax Credit too![/QUOTE

Yes, I checked up on this yesterday and was surprised it goes up to 20 years...it more or less is for children (well, adults at 20) who have to retake their 'A' Levels twice though.

Please note OP your child does not get any EMA payments in school holidays.

alluring29

zoo20000uk wrote: »

You can still claim child benefit and tax credits while she's at home but also, if she moves out and stays in what's classed as full-time education, you can still claim for her. I was told that I was responsible for my son until he was 25 if he chose to continue to study full-time and that I could carry on claiming under certain special circumstances!! I don't know quite how that works, but he's 20 years old now and working. When he was at college and renting a room, he did a few hours as a gymnastics coach to pay his rent and I'm sure the council helped a bit too...but he was also doing enough hours at college to be termed as a full-time student. I used to buy shopping on-line and have it sent to his flat every two weeks. Of course, I would spend more than I claimed, but that's Mums for you. He also got EMA. If you ring up the CB office and the Tax Cred people, they can sort everything out over the phone. I didn't even need to sign any forms...just have all my reference numbers handy and give them the amount of hours my son was working and studying. Good luck!

This is dependant on what type of full-time education they go into. For example, my daughter is starting a degree in September and my Child Benefit etc. stop this month, she is 18 years old.

Taken from Government's website regarding Child Benefit:-
(sorry as a new user, I cannot add links).

Courses that don't count for Child Benefit
The Child Benefit Office can't pay Child Benefit if your child is doing an 'advanced' education course.
Examples of advanced education courses include:
a degree
Diploma of Higher Education (DHE)
NVQ level 4 or above
BTEC Higher National Certificate (HNC) or Higher National Diploma (HND)
teacher training

alluring29

elisebutt65 wrote: »

Yup - if any of our students miss one session then that's it" - no Ema for the week.

Not only that but their bonus payments depend on their achievement, effort and behaviour. I just had to refuse to authorise one student's bonus over her behaviour - she's a distinction level student and is always around but unfortunately her behaviour is so awful, I couldn't justify signing the form.

At my daughter's college, if they are late once, they lose that week's payment. My daughter is always extremely punctual because EMA is her only form of income. All good habits to get into though for when they start employment.