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Child Benefit & Child Maintenance

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  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    And.. my son enrolled on the level 3 course in September at 19 and 8 months and we get CB and CTC for him and eligible for maintenance.
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  • Darksparkle
    Darksparkle Posts: 5,465 Forumite
    Don't see why you can blame DWP. Has nothing to do with them.
  • pigpen
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    edited 9 January 2016 at 1:56PM
    tomtontom wrote: »
    The information is readily available online. If you have the ability to find out how much you can claim in benefits (for multiple children), then surely you are also capable of working out when they end - or is that when you plead ignorance?


    no, it isn't.. the DWP admitted it isn't and they simply don't know and said to 'just apply for anything' and it will be looked at and changed if necessary


    They also said if he has anything that could be classed as a disability claim ESA.. helpful!!
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  • Darksparkle
    Darksparkle Posts: 5,465 Forumite
    pigpen wrote: »
    And.. my son enrolled on the level 3 course in September at 19 and 8 months and we get CB and CTC for him and eligible for maintenance.

    Presumably he was already in full time non advanced education before that.

    Which is not the same scenario as the one asked here.
  • pigpen
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    Mojisola wrote: »
    If you are claiming any benefits, isn't it worth reading up on them and finding out for yourself?


    tax credits and child benefit are all we get and they are not relevant beyond 20 so the info is not with them obviously.
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  • pigpen
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    edited 9 January 2016 at 1:57PM
    Darksparkle wrote: »
    Presumably he was already in full time non advanced education before that.

    Which is not the same scenario as the one asked here.


    he was doing a different course so it is the same and enrolled on this one in September


    I also reclaimed for my oldest when he had been living elsewhere and came home 4 months after his 19th birthday
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • tomtontom
    tomtontom Posts: 7,929 Forumite
    pigpen wrote: »
    tax credits and child benefit are all we get and they are not relevant beyond 20 so the info is not with them obviously.

    *All* you get? Are you implying it is a small amount?

    I'm sorry, I don't get this pleading ignorance when you clearly know the system very well. Even if you didn't, if you Google "when does child benefit end" you get multiple results from CAB, the government website, and more - all giving the information you apparently cannot find.
  • Darksparkle
    Darksparkle Posts: 5,465 Forumite
    pigpen wrote: »
    he was doing a different course so it is the same.


    I also reclaimed for my oldest when he had been living elsewhere and came home 4 months after his 19th birthday

    No it isn't the same. A child moving from one non advanced education to another is entitled continuously to 20.

    A child moving from advanced education to non advanced education must have been accepted into the non advanced course before their 19th birthday. This is because you are having to reclaim for the child.

    http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/tctmanual/TCTM02220.htm

    19 year old
    The Child Tax Credit (Amendment) Regulations 2006 Regulation 4
    A person aged 19 or over on 16 August 2007 is not a qualifying young person, unless they were enrolled on or were accepted to undertake approved training or a course of full-time non-advanced education before they attained age 19.
  • borkid
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    LilElvis wrote: »
    £200 per week, for an adult child! No wonder a lot of tax payers think that benefit claimants take the pi**.


    Good grief a friend ( over 30) is on ESA support group and gets less than that per week to support herself and pay her mortgage.
  • Darksparkle
    Darksparkle Posts: 5,465 Forumite
    borkid wrote: »
    Good grief a friend ( over 30) is on ESA support group and gets less than that per week to support herself and pay her mortgage.

    To be honest, unless the child is disabled you wouldn't get £200 per week for one child.

    Child benefit is either £20.70 or £13.70 per week and tax credits is £64 or £54 depending on number of children.

    So max £84 per week.
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