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Child benefit

  • 15-10-2009 9:25am
    #1
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭


    Hi, my son had left the country in sept 2008 to visit his grandmother abroad, he stayed until sept 2009

    I was claiming the Child Benefit for the months he was away, will I get in trouble for this? I did not know I was doing any wrong...

    I got a letter from the CB section looking for the dates he left ireland and returned. He left on his irish passport but it had expired while he was away and he had to return on an emergency passport, so how do I prove he returned back into ireland?????

    Please help,

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    What country was he in?


  • #3
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭john-joe


    cAr0l wrote: »
    What country was he in?


    Must I say? just out of privacy,

    It was a non eu country, african continent


  • #4
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    As it was outside the EU you will probably be assessed with an overpayment and will have to pay it back.
    Proof can be a copy of the travel booking used.


  • #5
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭john-joe


    cAr0l wrote: »
    As it was outside the EU you will probably be assessed with an overpayment and will have to pay it back.
    Proof can be a copy of the travel booking used.

    I have the tickets and document to say he travelled back to ireland on an emergency passport, they don't let you keep it.

    How long can he be out of country before it affects payment??


  • #6
    spongeman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭spongeman


    How did they find out he was outside Ireland?


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  • #7
    john-joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 797 ✭✭✭john-joe


    spongeman wrote: »
    How did they find out he was outside Ireland?

    Just got a letter from cb stating that my son was residing out of the country and you need to send copy of passport,tickets etc...

    Im an irish citizen as is my son, don't know if that makes a difference.

    He was not supposed to go for so long, just we had difficulty looking after him here for a bit,

    JJ


  • #8
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    was there a solution to this john-joe. I'm in a similar situation.


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