What is the age limit for dependant children

xyxyxy

Hi
I have been claiming for my partners daughter as "...other children living in the non-resident parent's household" which reduces my payments to my ex. My partners daughter is now 18 and attending college, living with us during the holidays. We fund her college and college accommodation.
Is there an age limit for making this claim?
Thanks in advance.

DUTR

xyxyxy wrote: »

Hi
I have been claiming for my partners daughter as "...other children living in the non-resident parent's household" which reduces my payments to my ex. My partners daughter is now 18 and attending college, living with us during the holidays. We fund her college and college accommodation.
Is there an age limit for making this claim?
Thanks in advance.

Supposed to be 19 or 20, but at present you are still within the rules :cool:

RAS

What course is she studying as that is relevant.

If the course is higher education, then you cannot claim CB and she is not a dependant child.

xyxyxy

She is doing an art foundation course. Is there any online csa documentation on this?
Many thanks for replies.

krashovrload

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It might be out of date but this is lifted from a DWP document from August 2012...

What age does a child have to be for the parent with care to be eligible to receive child maintenance?

A “qualifying child” is currently defined in child support legislation as;
• Under the age of 16;
• Between 16 and 19, and undertaking full-time, non-advanced education;
• Between 16 and 19, and registered with certain types of government-approved training courses and child benefit is in payment.

The child also must be habitually resident in the UK and living in the same residence as the parent/person with care, although there are some exceptions to this rule, for example children who are at boarding school or have long term hospitalisation are still classed as qualifying children.

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krashovrload

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From the DWP document: Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics for Great Britain (Dec 2012)

Change to Qualifying Child Age
In line with the introduction of the 2012 scheme on 10 December 2012, a legislative change was introduced to increase the qualifying age of a child from 19 to 20. We expect this to lead to an increase in the number of cases with a positive liability, positive outcome and the number of children benefiting, due to children remaining on cases for a longer period of time. As the change was only introduced on the 10 December we would expect the impact on figures in this publication to be minimal.

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little_miss_muppet_face

xyxyxy wrote: »

Hi
I have been claiming for my partners daughter as "...other children living in the non-resident parent's household" which reduces my payments to my ex. My partners daughter is now 18 and attending college, living with us during the holidays. We fund her college and college accommodation.
Is there an age limit for making this claim?
Thanks in advance.

So are you claiming for a child thats not yours, and giving less for your own childrens upbringing ??

kevin137

little_miss_muppet_face wrote: »

So are you claiming for a child thats not yours, and giving less for your own childrens upbringing ??

Which is completely in line with what current legislation allows, as is the CTC etc claimed for the child deemed to be for the income of the NRP and to be taken into account when assessing for the children NOT living with him...

You cannot have it both ways...!

And in answer to your question, if CB can be legally claimed for a child, then you are well within your rights to use as an assessable deduction... So go by what CB is saying for now... And if unsure, then call and ask the CSA