Weekly Child Benefit

lyppy1234

Hi. If you’re paid Child Benefit weekly, is it in arrears? Thanks.

tboo

According to this (I may have read it wrong).

Weekly is advance, 4-weekly is arrears.

Time of payment
18.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4), child benefit and guardian’s allowance shall be paid in accordance with an award as soon as reasonably practicable after the award has been made.

(2) Child benefit shall be paid—
(a)if a person entitled to it makes an election under regulation 19 or 20, weekly beginning with the first convenient date after the election has been made;
(b)in any other case, in the last week of each successive period of four weeks of the period of entitlement.
(3) Where benefit is paid at four-weekly intervals in accordance with paragraph (2)(b), the Board must arrange for it to be paid weekly if they are satisfied that payment at intervals of four weeks is causing hardship.
(4) If a person who has made a claim for child benefit is also entitled to guardian’s allowance, the allowance shall be paid at the same intervals as the child benefit.
(5) The Board must take steps to notify persons to whom child benefit or guardian’s allowance is payable of the arrangements they have made for payment in so far as those arrangements affect those persons.