will i lose benefits wen my son goes to residential care school

polly76

My son has finally been given a place by local authority hes been out of school for 5 yrs! Its in a specialist educational residential school. I currently receive child tax credits, dla and child benefit for him. When he starts will all of these stop even though I have to provide clothing inc uniform. Spending money etc. He will return home for school holidays only.

NYM

This link DLA for children in residential school.. may give you some info... Page 33/34 I think....

BlueEyedGirl

polly76 wrote: »

My son has finally been given a place by local authority hes been out of school for 5 yrs! Its in a specialist educational residential school. I currently receive child tax credits, dla and child benefit for him. When he starts will all of these stop even though I have to provide clothing inc uniform. Spending money etc. He will return home for school holidays only.

NYM wrote: »

This link DLA for children in residential school.. may give you some info... Page 33/34 I think....

The link above should give you some advice about DLA, I took a screen shot of the following:



There is a link here about Child Benefit:-

https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit-for-children-in-hospital-or-care

There is information here about Child Tax Credits:-

http://www.revenuebenefits.org.uk/tax-credits/guidance/how-do-tax-credits-work/entitlement/ctc-elements/