Granddaughter wants to live with me !

You won't get child benefit and child tax credits if she is simply 'living with you' you would have to become her legal guardian in order to claim those

Thing is if the child is not living with the parents they are not allowed to claim it either if my understanding is right?

( My Grandson lives with me and neither my daughter nor I receive tax credits or child benefit for him )

The authorities would call this a 'voluntary arrangement' so they do not help financially either but it would be worth finding out IF your daughter can still claim tax credits and child benefit for your Granddaughter if she does not live with them xx

Then they can pay it to you x

I am a bit baffled myself now after looking it up for you lol

I have been told I cannot get child benefit and child tax credits for my Grandson as he is not legally classed as my dependent but then some stuff online says otherwise , so I might give the relevant offices a ring myself and find out and it will be worth you ringing them too to 'find out from the horses mouth' as it looks like there are conflicting 'rules' / information out there on the internet lol

I might not get it because I get a maintenance payment for fostering him as a family member x

Sorry to give you the wrong info , it does look like you will be able to get the child benefit and child tax credits if you receive no other money for the child

I can't get it due to my fostering maintenance payment for my Grandson , hope that helps

Hi everyone I'm new so hear goes. When our eldest grandson was two years of age both his parents were in a bad place and it was put to us that if we didn't take him on he would be adopted. So he came to live with us and we wholly supported him. We put him through university and he left home at twenty nine to live with his wife. It was tough at times but we feel privileged to have brought him up and he has made us so proud and we love him dearly. I think if you lose your granddaughter you will forever regret it.

Pass on the child benefit or whatever it is called these days.
I am sure this has happened before when people had smaller houses.

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There has to be certain agreements about a non parent getting child benefit. I am sure it is not quite as simple as it sounds. The parents have parental responsibilty. That needs to be checked out.

Hello Wally I think if your grandson lived with you till he was 29 you must have done a pretty good job. Congratulations

Thank you