Can a grandparent receive child benefit?

calcotti

Grumpy_chap said:

There is a further part that covers the situation where more than one person makes the financial contribution:
https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/child-benefit-technical-manual/cbtm06090

I don’t read that bit as relevant. Nor do I think being considered as having sufficient responsibility to be eligible to receive CB necessarily has any wider legal meaning.

My instinct is that there is something to prevent what has been asked about but I can’t see what it is.

Robbie64

My understanding of

A person is treated as being responsible for a child or qualifying young person in any week where

• they have the child or qualifying young person living with them in that week

or

they are contributing to the cost of providing for the child or qualifying young person at a weekly rate not less than the weekly rate of Child Benefit payable in respect of that child or qualifying young person for that week

is that the person who is contributing is the parent and the child is residing elsewhere. So long as the (parent) is contributing an amount at least equal to Child Benefit then the (parent) can continue to claim Child Benefit.

See https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/child-benefit-technical-manual/cbtm06080 . The example in paragraph 2 is worded to back up my understanding. It would be interesting to see if HMRC would pay Child Benefit to someone who is not the parent of the child and where the child actually lives with the parents.

wilfred30

If your claim is successful OP, please do come back and let us know as I'm sure it will encourage other grandparents whose children have a high income to do the same.