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Lone parent allowance - eligible even if offspring is adult?

  • 31-01-2011 3:05pm
    #1
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey there,

    I'm wondering if someone can clear this up for me!

    My mother is always complaining about people she knows who are still receiving lone parents' allowance, even though their 'children' are fully grown adults in their twenties (or even thirties!)

    She's under the impression that they're still entitled to receive it, which seems completely scandalous and ridiculous to me. I can't imagine it to be the case, or there would be uproar in the papers and the likes.

    Can someone put it to bed? Are these people really entitled to the benefit?

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Virgo2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭Virgo2011


    As per the citizen advice website, its "A qualified child is a child under 18 years of age or aged 18-22 and in full-time education"

    When i was in full time education, i had to have a form stamped to prove i was in college. I was out of college by 21.


  • #3
    sue345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭sue345


    Dave! wrote: »
    My mother is always complaining about people she knows who are still receiving lone parents' allowance, even though their 'children' are fully grown adults in their twenties (or even thirties!)
    Cheers


    Could you actually be talking about the Deserted Wives payment and not the Lone parents?

    My mam lost her lone parents when me and my brother reached 18 and she reapplied for it then when my brother started in college and had all these forms to fill out and get stamped....

    However she is still entitled to her Deserted Wives...The requirements for DS was changed though in the last couple of years but because she was on it before 1997 she gets to keep it and she still met the requirements for it (though she reckons not for much longer) whereas my aunt was in receipt of Deserted Wives but because she didnt qualify when they made the changes, she is no longer receiving it....


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