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How to claim Child Benefit if your child is continuing in further education after their GCSEs.

• Updated: 21 May 2024

Government rewards hard work with record tax cut to National Insurance for 29 million workers

• Updated: 5 April 2024

Child Benefit claims can be made online for the first time.

• Updated: 3 January 2024

The government has confirmed payments of benefits due to land in accounts on Monday 19 September will be made early.

• Updated: 16 September 2022

Up to £635 million of funding will be made available to public sector organisations so they can install low carbon heating and energy efficiency measures.

• Updated: 2 August 2022

Tax credits and Child Benefit customers who receive their payments into a Post Office card account have just 2 weeks left to switch their accounts.

• Updated: 22 March 2022

HMRC will stop making payments to Post Office card accounts after 5 April 2022. About 7,500 customers still need to switch so they don’t miss out on vital payments.

• Updated: 3 March 2022

HMRC is giving customers, who are yet to switch their Post Office accounts, a one-off extension until 5 April 2022.

• Updated: 29 November 2021

Customers have until 30 November 2021 to update HMRC with their new bank account details or risk having their tax credits or Child Benefit payments suspended.

• Updated: 9 November 2021

HMRC urges tax credits and Child Benefits customers with a Post Office card account to update HMRC with their new bank account details by 30 November 2021.

• Updated: 5 October 2021

Families with children staying in full-time non-advanced education or approved training post 16 must inform HMRC by 31 August to receive Child Benefit.

• Updated: 18 August 2021

Correspondence between SSAC and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions about the Social Security, Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

• Updated: 21 December 2020

Up to £165 million new funding to help families get their lives back on track announced.

• Updated: 5 January 2020

HMRC listened to customers and stakeholders and changed its view about when some customers may have a reasonable excuse for failing to notify liability to HICBC.

• Updated: 6 June 2019

Almost 400,000 families have been helped by the Troubled Families programme.

• Updated: 28 March 2019

Parents and carers should make sure they are getting National Insurance credits which may improve their State Pension income.

• Updated: 3 September 2018

A new service to directly help mid-sized businesses as they expand and grow, has been launched today by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

• Updated: 20 September 2017

Child Benefit and Child Tax Credits payments may stop for parents who do not inform HMRC of their child’s educational status by 31 August.

• Updated: 24 August 2017

Further details of how the £5 million emergency Grenfell Tower Residents’ Discretionary Fund will be distributed, has been confirmed by the Prime Minister.

• Updated: 18 June 2017

Prime Minister Theresa May earlier today met with victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

• Updated: 17 June 2017