Child Benefit

(asked on 19th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 15 February 2019 to Question 220289, Children: Maintenance, if she will provide further information on the overall care test used to determine entitlement to child benefit.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 26th February 2019

Child Benefit is payable where a claimant is responsible for a child under the age of 16, or a qualifying young person up to the age of 20 in full-time non-advanced education or approved training. A person is treated as being responsible for a child in any week where:

(i) they have the child living with them in that week; or

(ii) they are contributing to the upkeep of the child at a weekly rate not less than the amount of Child Benefit payable for that week.

Only one person can get Child Benefit in respect of a child. In cases of shared care, where more than one person meets the entitlement criteria and makes a claim for Child Benefit, priority rules apply. These rules are set out in the Child Benefit Technical Manual at the following link.

www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/child-benefit-technical-manual/cbtm08001

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