Help with Child Benefit please

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Unsure in which topic to ask this so apologies if this is the wrong one. My grandson will be 16 next year and will be coming to live with us and attending a local sixth form college. Is he still entitled to child benefit and if so how does my son go about transferring it to us? I know that EMA has been discontinued but not sure about child benefit. As Mr BD and I will both be retired by next summer we need to sort out our budget so we can support him for the following two years at least. Any advice will be gratefully received. Thanks in advance.

[THECORBYLOON]

When I used to deal wi CHB it was back when there were order books still and we could downrate the orders in them wi a special price marker, ah the good old days, CH692 for a lost OB...

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Redhelen - may I pick your brains? My son, who has one son, married my daughter-in-law who has a much younger daughter. The higher amount of child benefit was then paid for my grandson and the lower amount paid for his new sister. If my grandson moves in with us will his step-sister now get the larger amount in her own right or is she still classed as the second child.? What a fascinating maze this is.

[pink-kittens]

Corby, my CB is paid into my mums account and she has a completely different name to mine. I have had it going into her account for well over 20 years now so not to sure when these things did change but it's longer ago than that

[THECORBYLOON]

For anyone who's not checked the link, this is what it says

Accounts you can use to receive payments
The account will need to be one of the following:

•in your name
•in your partner's name
•both in your own and your partner's names
•in the name of someone acting on your behalf
•jointly in your own name and in the name of someone acting on your behalf

For tax credits payments only, you can also use an account in someone else's name. But it is up to you to make sure you get the money from that person.

You will see it says that for tax credits ONLY you can use anyone's account so you can see why I am confused as it clearly differentiates beteween someone acting on the claimant's behalf for Child Benefit and any old Tom, Dick or Harry for Tax Credits. I would be interested to see what HMRC do about the confusion

[albaqwerty]

You'll love this one re tax credits. I asked for them to get paid into my OH's PO account and was told no.

[pink-kittens]

in that case my mum is acting on my behalf, isn't she?
So, you CAN have it paid into an account that is not of the same surname

[THECORBYLOON]

Thanks for the reply but I'm intrigued as to why it explicitly says Tax Credits can be paid into anyone's account but for CHB it's the account of someone acting on the claimant's behalf. I know it's nothing to do wi me but they appear to be two completly different as in the case of an appointee for example.

[pink-kittens]

Who knows Corby, HMRC have a secret set of rules and regs I'm certain ;-)

[bundleone]

There is another point that you should recieve maintenance from the boys dad to help with his keep.