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Post by greyspeckledhen on Apr 2, 2014 8:29:46 GMT
Does anyone know if having your child living in part time college lodgings would affect claiming child benefit/ tax credits or adoption allowance? We're thinking eldest might manage a 3 or 4 nights a week away to save a long bus journey but just trying to work out how that would financially impact us because it would cost us more for him to live away rather than less!
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Post by flutterby on Apr 2, 2014 8:48:11 GMT
As long as your child is in full-time education you are entitled to child benefit and tax credits. I have never seen it mentioned anywhere that they have to be with you full-time. Otherwise people who are divorced and children staying with ex on a regular basis, say weekends, would be affected too. Really cannot imagine this being the case. As for adoption allowance, I would not know that, but the child remains in your care, so why should it change - and do they have to know in the first place?
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Post by twoplustwo on Apr 2, 2014 19:40:58 GMT
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Post by greyspeckledhen on Apr 2, 2014 20:36:49 GMT
That's helpful thanks. I assumed that was probably the case but didn't want to launch in and then find that we were losing money in one direction and spending it in another!
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