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csa child maintance

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  • skibadee
    skibadee Posts: 1,304 Forumite
    Child stays in education or training


    You can carry on getting Child Benefit for your child up until their 20th birthday, if they're in education or training that counts for Child Benefit. Education or training counts for Child Benefit as long as it's either of the following:
    • full-time, 'non-advanced' education (for example 'A' levels)
    • 'approved' training
    Your child needs to have started, enrolled or been accepted for one of these types of courses before the age of 19.

    You can't get Child Benefit if your child is doing:
    • higher education, such as a course at university level
    • education provided by an employer
    • education provided through any office they hold - for example if your child has an official role such as scout leader or councillor, and the education is provided as part of that role
    • training that is part of a job contract
    So does that mean that as CB could still be being claimed up to 20th Birthday CM could still be payable until then? as gentleman I spoke to at CSA said it was payable until CB stopped?
  • skibadee wrote: »
    So does that mean that as CB could still be being claimed up to 20th Birthday CM could still be payable until then? as gentleman I spoke to at CSA said it was payable until CB stopped?

    That is one of the proposed changes with the future scheme that will be introduced, however with CS2 & old rules the child maintenance stops being payable when the child turns 19, not 20.
  • i am getting child benefit until she is 20 as she is going back to college in september this is all so confusing all these different answers suppose i will have to phone them
  • shell_542
    shell_542 Posts: 1,333 Forumite
    100% it stops on or just after the 19th birthday, as long as no arrears are being collected. You may need to notify them yourself because if they continue collecting after the cut off date, they can ask for the money back. 100%. 19th birthday.

    Child support is payable while child benefit is in receipt ... ONLY UP UNTIL THE 19TH BIRTHDAY.
    August GC 10th - 10th : £200 / £70.61
    NSD : 2/8
  • shell_542
    shell_542 Posts: 1,333 Forumite
    Taken from the direct.gov website, the definition of a child:

    Child
    For child maintenance purposes, a child is anyone under 16 or
    someone between 16 and 19 who:
    • is not, nor has ever been, married or in a civil partnership, and
    • is in full-time non-advanced education.
    However, if child benefit is still being received, someone under 19
    can still be regarded as a child for child maintenance purposes
    even if they are not in full-time non-advanced education.
    August GC 10th - 10th : £200 / £70.61
    NSD : 2/8
  • ok thank you
  • just to add - if you are a parent with care if you are still receiving payments following the child turning 19 you should leave to one side as when the case is closed you may have been overpaid and will be expected to repay anything you have received over and above what you were due.

    best giving them a call to have it closed asap
    Comp Wins 2011 : Cant wait to start listing everything:j:j:j
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