Counting the Cost
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Home Education and Benefits
Child Benefit
Child benefit is not affected by the fact that you have chosen to home educate.
According to www.direct.gov:
You may be able to get Child Benefit if you're bringing up:
- a child aged under 16
- a young person under 19 (under 20 in some cases) who is either studying in full-time further education (A level or equivalent) or on an approved training programme
- a 16 or 17 year old who has recently left full-time further education or approved training and has registered for work or training with the Careers or Connexions Service or similar
The Child Benefit Office will contact you shortly before your child reaches 16, to ask whether they will be continuing in full time education. If you have already been home educating before this, and plan to continue, then you only need to let them know this and the payments will continue, so long as the child will be studying for 12 hours or more each week.
It is more complex if you wish to start home education at or after the age of 16, as the Child Benefit Office will need rather more detail of the education being provided, and more complex rules apply.
