Overview

• Payments will stop from September if parents do not tell HMRC that a 16–19-year-old is staying in approved education or training by the August 31 deadline.
• Letters sent over summer include a QR code linking directly to the online service, and only the current claimant can update a child’s status.
• About 1.5 million parents were contacted, more than 509,000 have already extended their claim, and reports say over 214,000 eligible families are still missing out.
• Child Benefit is £26.05 a week (£1,354.60 a year) for the eldest or only child and £17.25 a week (£897 a year) for each additional child.
• Approved education must be full-time (over 12 hours a week) and can include A levels, T levels and NVQs up to level 3, while most apprenticeships and advanced courses such as degrees are not eligible; the young person must be accepted onto the course before age 19.