child benefit

evosteo · 22-10-2013 5:19pm #1

jus a quick query. does child benifit stop been paid when a child reaches 18 years of age or when they finish their leaving cert? she has just turned 18 this month but has only started her 6th year!!!

Agent_99 · 22-10-2013 6:05pm

Child benefit end at 16 unless the child is in full time education or training then it finishes at 18. I don't think there is any leeway even if they are still at school. My chap is in the same boat he'll be 18 in June and starting 6year in sept. All because I didn't send him to school until he was 5

mrsbyrne · 23-10-2013 9:46am

Child benefit stops the month the child is 18 and thats it , no more whether in school or not.

hoodwinked · 23-10-2013 9:48am

Agent_99 wrote: »

Child benefit end at 16 unless the child is in full time education or training then it finishes at 18. I don't think there is any leeway even if they are still at school. My chap is in the same boat he'll be 18 in June and starting 6year in sept. All because I didn't send him to school until he was 5

there used to be leeway if they were in full time education up until 23, this has been changed to 18 years of age and thats it...

i don't see how sending them to school at 4 or 5 made a difference though? you still get 18 years of payments regardless?

mrsbyrne · 23-10-2013 9:53am

hoodwinked wrote: »

there used to be leeway if they were in full time education up until 23, this has been changed to 18 years of age and thats it...

i don't see how sending them to school at 4 or 5 made a difference though? you still get 18 years of payments regardless?

Child benefit was never paid until age 22/23. If you have a SW payment, eg One parent Family payment, you could get the child dependent part, €29.80, until the child was 22 if that child was in full time education.
Child benefit was paid until the 19th birthday, but about two Budgets ago it was pulled back to 18th birthday.

hoodwinked · 23-10-2013 9:57am

mrsbyrne wrote: »

Child benefit was never paid until age 22/23. If you have a SW payment, eg One parent Family payment, you could get the child dependent part, €29.80, until the child was 22 if that child was in full time education.
Child benefit was paid until the 19th birthday, but about two Budgets ago it was pulled back to 18th birthday.

it was a good few years back i remember having to get my college to sign the form , my mother wasn't on opf or any other sw payment but she got it for me until i was 23 as i was in full time education.

i was hoping they would change it back to that, but now i'm wondering how that worked!

double edit: apparently i was right!

but either way its 18 years now regardless of education or not!

mrsbyrne · 23-10-2013 10:00am

hoodwinked wrote: »

it was a good few years back i remember having to get my college to sign the form , my mother wasn't on opf or any other sw payment but she got it for me until i was 23 as i was in full time education.

i was hoping they would change it back to that, but now i'm wondering how that worked!

but either way its 18 years now regardless of education or not!

your memory fails you!! your mother didnt get Child Benefit for you until 23. If you were between 16 and19 and in college she had to ask the college to sign a form, but not 23. I am100% certain of this.

hoodwinked · 23-10-2013 10:05am

mrsbyrne wrote: »

your memory fails you!! your mother didnt get Child Benefit for you until 23. If you were between 16 and19 and in college she had to ask the college to sign a form, but not 23. I am100% certain of this.

apparently i was right and it was 23, sure i was only 18 starting college anyway!

Agent_99 · 24-10-2013 7:54am

hoodwinked wrote: »

i don't see how sending them to school at 4 or 5 made a difference though? you still get 18 years of payments regardless?

If he had started school at 4 he would have been doing his leaving the same month as turning 18 but because he started at 5 he will be 19 so he will have a complete year at 2nd level with no CB. At least if he had finished school I could kick him out and down the mines to work but I suppose I'll have to let him complete his education

Annasopra · 24-10-2013 8:27am

mrsbyrne wrote: »

Child benefit was never paid until age 22/23. .

It was - if the child stayed in full time education

ShaShaBear · 24-10-2013 1:09pm

mango salsa wrote: »

It was - if the child stayed in full time education

Can confirm this, as my mother got it for me.

hoodwinked · 24-10-2013 1:12pm

mango salsa wrote: »

It was - if the child stayed in full time education

ShaShaBear wrote: »

Can confirm this, as my mother got it for me.

thank you guys! thought i was going crazy as i remembered having to bring those forms into the college admin office!

ShaShaBear · 24-10-2013 1:14pm

hoodwinked wrote: »

thank you guys! thought i was going crazy as i remembered having to bring those forms into the college admin office!

It was ages ago mind you, I started veterinary nursing in September 2006 at 19 years of age and I had to bring in the form to get stamped. I left when I was almost 21, but my mother was still getting paid for me at that stage, and I had to bring in a form at the start of second year to confirm I was still there. She got two months payment for me at 22 when I moved to a new course, but got cut off when I turned 23.

July Rain · 24-10-2013 1:17pm

ShaShaBear wrote: »

Can confirm this, as my mother got it for me.

She was frauding so because 19 was the cut off age for child benifit from 1986-2009. It fell back to 18 from January 2010

hoodwinked · 24-10-2013 1:18pm

ShaShaBear wrote: »

It was ages ago mind you, I started veterinary nursing in September 2006 at 19 years of age and I had to bring in the form to get stamped. I left when I was almost 21, but my mother was still getting paid for me at that stage, and I had to bring in a form at the start of second year to confirm I was still there. She got two months payment for me at 22 when I moved to a new course, but got cut off when I turned 23.

it was over 10 years ago for me too... hence my memory of it isn't too great

ShaShaBear · 24-10-2013 1:19pm

July Rain wrote: »

She was frauding so because 19 was the cut off age for child benifit from 1986-2009. It fell back to 18 from January 2010

I think you will find she most certainly was not, as she rang and explained that I still lived at home and would be attending college and she was sent out a form and approved.

Kristopherus · 24-10-2013 2:34pm

ShaShaBear wrote: »

I think you will find she most certainly was not, as she rang and explained that I still lived at home and would be attending college and she was sent out a form and approved.

Were your parents in receipt of a welfare payment at that time?

ShaShaBear · 24-10-2013 2:51pm

Kristopherus wrote: »

Were your parents in receipt of a welfare payment at that time?

My mother, yes. Father was not in the picture.

July Rain · 24-10-2013 3:02pm

In that case it was one parent allowance or Fis(or both) your mom was getting. here is a dail answer from the late Seamus Brennan in 2007 which confirms cb stopped at 19.,http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/2007/03/01/00116.asp

Kristopherus · 24-10-2013 3:24pm

ShaShaBear wrote: »

My mother, yes. Father was not in the picture.

In that case it was most likely that you had to get the forms signed by the college for your mum to continue to receive the Child Dependant payment for you and not the Child Benefit payment. IIRC Child Benefit was never paid beyond the 19th birthday, as previous posters have already alluded to.

ShaShaBear · 24-10-2013 3:26pm

Kristopherus wrote: »

In that case it was most likely that you had to get the forms signed by the college for your mum to continue to receive the Child Dependant payment for you and not the Child Benefit payment. IIRC Child Benefit was never paid beyond the 19th birthday, as previous posters have already alluded to.

Apologies, maybe that was it then. I was under the illusion it was child benefit, although its quite possible that's what my mother thought it was too.

girliegirl09 · 25-12-2013 7:39pm

anyone tell me please what date child benefit 1st payment in jan 2014 as it is a bank holiday i am paid in the post office..... i am sooo broke if anyone knows pls tell me!!!