[Solved] Child Benefit

sorry I can not advise I am sure I read someone one of the dad's managed to claim child allowance for one child and his ex continued for the other makes logic sense and if I was awarded shared residency this is what I would hope to achieve initially to reduce the however I have no chance in my ex agreeing to such a thing as her primary incentive to keep the children is financial gain and therefore unlikely even if disputed they would award it to me

do you have a court order in place that states shared care with the contact agreements ? as this I feel would be the only way to evidence you are having your children that much ,

however I will apply without delay for children allowance and get the ball rolling and see what you come up against battle it as and when

however remember there will be a different amount for each child....

Child Benefit - £ per week Rates
Eldest/Only Child £20.50
Other Children £13.55

You can go ahead and simply make a claim to Child Benefit. Ring them, tell the situation and they can take it from there.
My ex husband did this , I knew nothing until CB contacted me asking to confirm the time I had my son (my ex doesnt pay me any maintenance or anything but he was wanting half of the CB as he was finding things tight).
As he has him half the time he gets half the money. No worries, the problem may be if she contests it. But then it will simply go to getting a legal paper stating the contact you have.

Just getting my head around CB and allowances at the moment, so not very clued up. When you say apply for child allowance, does this mean child tax credits/working tax credits?

I did speak to CB yesterday and explained the situation. They said they have an independent body that deals with disputes, and couldn't really give me any advice. I did ask what the likelihood of them deciding that we could claim for one of the children each, when resolving a dispute. He said that wouldn't happen and that one party would be awarded both CB allowances.

There's a shared residency order in place, splitting nights 50/50 over two weeks.

What I'm pretty sure of is that if we both claimed for one child, we would each get the top rate of £20.50.

Has anyone been through this? what do they look at when deciding who gets CB?

Ex is completely refusing to allow me any benefits for the children, and I'm financially in trouble, pretty stressed. any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
DT

child benefit needs to be claimed before any another -so tax credits etc

yes I think the amount is the oldest child in your house so if that is the only child then you both would receive the 1st rate of £20.50

you need to send with your child benefit claim evidence that you are supporting your children , buying things etc I think this would help ,

you need to send a copy of the court order

it's not good enough for your ex to just hand over the £20 as it's not able that ...she can claim csa for bother children even with 50/50 shared cared and also why should she be entitled to all the help and only half the effort ?

it makes me so very cross that in these cases the person who is claiming unless they agree you have to fight and protest it etc my ex claims to csa I only have my children 50 night when actual fact I have them over 104 but I still have to pay the max amount because they believe her - it's a battle but one in which you must start the ball rolling to be in with a chance

you can find printable cb forms online