child benefit and apprenticeships. ..

Cka

Hi my ds is looking into doing an apprenticeship and achieve an nvq 2 or possibly 3 whils earning aprox 102 a week for a 40 hour week.. I have looked on benefit website that claims some apprentiships still qualify for benefits.. im assuming this wont be one... which are?

pmlindyloo

Here you are:

What type of training counts for Child Benefit?

You can get Child Benefit if your child is over 16 and is doing a course of 'approved' training. Your child needs to have started, enrolled or been accepted onto an unwaged approved course before their 19th birthday.
Approved courses are as follows:

• England - Foundation Learning programmes, or Access to Apprenticeships
• Wales - Foundation Apprenticeships, Traineeships and Skillbuild/Skillbuild+ (if started before 1 August 2011)
• Scotland – Employability Fund programmes, Get Ready for Work (if started before 1 April 2013 or Skillseekers (if started before 1 April 2011).
• Northern Ireland - Jobskills or Training for Success: Professional and Technical Training, including Programme Led Apprenticeships (Apprenticeships NI) and Pathways to Success - Pathways for Young People

A course provided by an employer as part of a job contract doesn't count as approved.

If your son gives you some 'keep' now that he is earning then this should replace the lost CB and give some extra!

Cka

Umm as I thought... He really wouldn't be able to give me any where near what we would loose as a family weekly.... £20 cb £65 Csa then tax credit on top.... Annoying as he can work up to 24 hours a week and he keeps it all.....

pmlindyloo

Cka wrote: »

Umm as I thought... He really wouldn't be able to give me any where near what we would loose as a family weekly.... £20 cb £65 Csa then tax credit on top.... Annoying as he can work up to 24 hours a week and he keeps it all.....

I am presuming the 24 hours a week is referring to the loss of child maintenance but don't understand your remark about 'he keeps it all'.

Will you not be asking him for some money towards his living costs now that he is working? I recognise that it won't make up your 'loss' (so to speak) but that's the way it works.

Any chance of a private arrangement with his dad for some extra cash whilst he is doing this apprenticeship?

Cka

I mean he would loose his csa and his cb then his portion of tax credits and only recieve £100 a week where as he can do his college course and get a small part time job working up to 24 hours a week keeping the cb csa and tax credits and he would be much better off doing that at the moment.. I understand they will stop at somepoint but hopefull he would be able to secure the same qualifications and be in a much better paid job that 100 a week for 40 hours.. this meaning he would be able to contribute to the house hold..
Me and his step father are in work.. this isnt a sponging off the benefits post...

itch_for_a_glitch

Cka wrote: »

I mean he would loose his csa and his cb then his portion of tax credits and only recieve £100 a week where as he can do his college course and get a small part time job working up to 24 hours a week keeping the cb csa and tax credits and he would be much better off doing that at the moment.. I understand they will stop at somepoint but hopefull he would be able to secure the same qualifications and be in a much better paid job that 100 a week for 40 hours.. this meaning he would be able to contribute to the house hold..
Me and his step father are in work.. this isnt a sponging off the benefits post...

What is more important ? DS getting training and a route into work, or a few quid a week ? I was over the moon when my lad got his apprenticeship. Suck it up.

midnight_express

Cka wrote: »

I mean he would loose his csa and his cb then his portion of tax credits and only recieve £100 a week where as he can do his college course and get a small part time job working up to 24 hours a week keeping the cb csa and tax credits and he would be much better off doing that at the moment.. I understand they will stop at somepoint but hopefull he would be able to secure the same qualifications and be in a much better paid job that 100 a week for 40 hours.. this meaning he would be able to contribute to the house hold..
Me and his step father are in work.. this isnt a sponging off the benefits post...

Oh yes it is.

Dunroamin

Cka wrote: »

I mean he would loose his csa and his cb then his portion of tax credits and only recieve £100 a week where as he can do his college course and get a small part time job working up to 24 hours a week keeping the cb csa and tax credits and he would be much better off doing that at the moment.. I understand they will stop at somepoint but hopefull he would be able to secure the same qualifications and be in a much better paid job that 100 a week for 40 hours.. this meaning he would be able to contribute to the house hold..
Me and his step father are in work.. this isnt a sponging off the benefits post...

You keep saying that "he" would lose CSA/CB/CTC when, presumably, what you mean is that you would lose them.

Career decisions at this point in his life are too important to be made based purely on short term financial gain, whether his own or his mother's.

pmlindyloo

Cka wrote: »

I mean he would loose his csa and his cb then his portion of tax credits and only recieve £100 a week where as he can do his college course and get a small part time job working up to 24 hours a week keeping the cb csa and tax credits and he would be much better off doing that at the moment.. I understand they will stop at somepoint but hopefull he would be able to secure the same qualifications and be in a much better paid job that 100 a week for 40 hours.. this meaning he would be able to contribute to the house hold..
Me and his step father are in work.. this isnt a sponging off the benefits post...

If you are so keen on his keeping the CB, CTC and CSA then why don't you suggest this to him then?

Not sure what your point is?

paddedjohn

Is it more the fact that the kids Dad won't have to give you £65 a week anymore that's irking you OP?

midnight_express

It's terrible when the little money makers grow up.