Child Benefit and Guardian's Allowance

Latest additions to the Child Benefit areas of the site

Updated 20 April 2012

New child benefit Upper Tribunal decision

CF/1195/2011 – Whether HMRC and tribunal right to assume that 16 year old, who had gone to stay with boyfriend, was living with him ‘as if they were spouses’.

In Child Benefit » legislation and case law » Case law » Upper Tribunal decisions

Updated 17 April 2012

Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Administration) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

New regulations that allow any recoverable overpayment of child benefit or guardian’s allowance to be recovered from ongoing payments of child benefit and guardian’s allowance.

In Child Benefit » legislation and case law » Statutory instruments » Uprating and amending

Updated 12 March 2012

Child benefit claims for people coming from overseas

HMRC make form available to Revenuebenefits to help claimants who have come from certain overseas countries to get their claim processed more quickly.

In Child Benefit » Guidance » How do child benefit and guardian’s allowance work? » Faster child benefit claims for people coming from overseas

Updated 6 March 2012

HMRC Child Benefit Statistics

New 2011 geographical and small area data statistics now available.

In Child Benefit » Policy » Public statistics