Financial advice please

Corelli

Hello, I hope this is the right board for this.

I could do with some advice, I've no idea where to start for this. My daughter is 18 and living here at home with both parents and her brother. She was a student last academic year but gave it all up and we notified the Child Benefit people, Child Benefit has stopped for her and so has her part of the Family Tax Credit.

Now she has found a course she would like, a level 3 BTEC in Circus skills and has an audition this Friday. Should she be accepted on the course, I don't know if we can start another claim for CB and FTC because this is a new course, she is 18, not a continuation of what she was doing before.

If anyone can give me some guidance as to how she can finance this course I would be very grateful. She does also want to move away from home, I can't see this being possible at all. The fees apparantly are covered due to her age, so that is one aspect of it not to worry about.

Thanks

marbella

If she is in full time education and living at home, you can get child benefit until she is 20. Don't know about tax credits.

Dunroamin

marbella wrote: »

If she is in full time education and living at home, you can get child benefit until she is 20. Don't know about tax credits.

As long as this is non advanced FE, ie.below degree level. This also applies to child tax credits.

Corelli

This is great news, I had thought that as she was over 18 and it was not a continuation of previous courses we would not be eligible. Thanks Dunroamin and Marbella.

Taiko

Other than that, see if there's any financial support the college offer. It may be a case though that, if she wants the luxuries, she'll have to juggle a job, not just skittles, or whatever they use on those courses.

Dunroamin

Corelli wrote: »

This is great news, I had thought that as she was over 18 and it was not a continuation of previous courses we would not be eligible. Thanks Dunroamin and Marbella.

This carries on until her 20th birthday.