Child Benefit - how to transfer to a guardian?

wazza

My sister has taken in her granddaughter for good. The mother is dragging her heels in transferring child benefit to her. What can my sister do?

I told her to ring child benefit office tomorrow and ask what she should do. My sister has already registered the child to a local school. The social worker is aware that the child is staying with her grandmother. I told my sister to ask the social worker to give her a letter saying she is the guardian.

Is there anything else i can advise my sister?

Thanks

DX2

If you have an informal arrangement to foster someone else's child, you may be able to get Child Benefit. This applies as long as your local authority is not paying anything to help with the child's accommodation or maintenance. If you want to make a claim, you need to agree with the person who is currently getting Child Benefit (for example, the parent) that you can make a claim instead. Bear in mind that two people cannot receive Child Benefit for the same child.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/start/who-qualifies/adopt-foster-child.htm


You might already be getting Child Benefit and someone else decides to claim too. For example:

• your child lives with a relative and that relative decides to claim
• your child lives with you and another person starts to pay towards the upkeep of the child

In some cases you won't know about this other claim until we write to you to say that we have received it. We won't be able to tell you who has made the claim. But if you know that someone else has applied for Child Benefit you should try, if you can, to decide between yourselves who should get the payment. If you decide that you don't want to carry on with your claim, let us know as soon as possible.
If you can't decide who gets the payment and both of you still want to claim, we will decide who to pay. If we decide that someone else will get the Child Benefit, your payments will stop.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/start/claiming/more-than-one-claim.htm

Be_Happy

Get sister to contact CAB and get info on new Kinship Care where relatives taking in children permanently can get an allowance.

bunny999

Your sister needs to put in a claim for child benefit. The mother of the child is no longer entitled to claim and is commiting fraud by doing so.