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I have an 18 year old daughter who lives with her mother. She is not in further education or training.
She works three days a week in a local department store earning £9 an hour.
I have been told that because she works less than 24 hours a week, is under 20, then she is technically still a child and I should still pay CMS payments.
Is this correct ?
(There was a similar query in another thread but it is now locked )
Any info greatly appreciated.
hi,
do you know if your ex is still receiving child benefit? child benefit stops when child is no longer in education (approved) or training.
or perhaps your ex applied for an extension. there is mention about working 24 hours a week or less, but says child must be 16 or 17:
When approved education or training ends
When your child leaves approved education or training, payments will stop at the end of February, 31 May, 31 August or 30 November (whichever comes first).
Apply for an extension
You could get Child Benefit for 20 weeks (called an ‘extension’) if your child leaves approved education or training and either:
registers with their local careers service, Connexions (or a similar organisation in Northern Ireland, the EU, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein)
signed up to join the armed forces
Apply for the extension online, by phone or post.
To qualify your child must:
be 16 or 17
work less than 24 hours a week
not get certain benefits (for example Income Support)
You must have been entitled to Child Benefit immediately before they left the approved education or training and apply for it within 3 months of them leaving.
Thanks for the reply.
No training, no extension, no benefits, no schemes
Other info -
Mother earns @£40kpa
Child earns £202.50 per week
This is the exact wording from the CMS -
For Child Benefit purposes a child is a child if they are aged under 20, Child Benefit is still payable and they are in full time, non advanced education.
However, if Child X is working less than 24 hours per week she is still classed as a child until she turns 20 or works more than 24hours per week, Child Maintenance is still due to be paid by the paying parent in this instance.
However, she would cease to be classed as a child if her hours of work were more than 24 per week. We would need to be notified if this occurs.
Then it is signed off by the same squiggle all messages are,no name, just titled the "Client Services Manager Child Maintenance Service"
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