Child Benefit: Adoption

(asked on 30th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the child benefit rules to include support to all parents of adopted children.


Answered by
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Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
This question was answered on 7th October 2019

Child Benefit provides support to all parents of adopted children where those parents are responsible for the adopted children. A person is treated as being responsible for a child, whether that child is adopted or not adopted, where:

  • the child living is with them;

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