Child Benefit - which changes you need to report

Family changes

• you marry, form a civil partnership, or start living with a partner, and you're both getting Child Benefit
• you stop living with a partner and you're both getting Child Benefit
• you have a baby
• another child comes to live with you
• you start getting paid by a local authority, or in Northern Ireland a Health and Social Services Board or Trust, for a child you're looking after

Bank account, name or address changes

• you want to change the account your Child Benefit is paid into
• you've changed your name or address

Contributions to a child change or stop

• you stop paying money or making contributions for a child who doesn't live with you or is in hospital for more than 84 days
• you go into hospital or prison for more than eight weeks and you stop making contributions for your child

Absence from the UK

• you or your partner leave the UK permanently or for more than 52 weeks
• you leave the UK temporarily for more than eight weeks, or more than twelve weeks because you or a member of your family is ill, or has died
• you lose your right to reside in the UK
• your immigration status is changed by the Home Office

Other changes

• you or your partner start to pay social security contributions to, or get social security benefit from, a foreign country
• you leave Great Britain to go to Northern Ireland permanently, or Northern Ireland to go to Great Britain permanently

Changes in your child's education or training

• leaves school or college and starts working 24 hours a week or more, and they get or expect payment
• leaves school or college earlier than the date you told the Child Benefit Office
• stays on at school or college after the date you told the Child Benefit Office they would leave
• starts education that's been provided by an employer or as part of any other job or role that they have
• reduces the time they get supervised study at school or college to 12 hours a week or less
• starts a higher education course leading to a qualification like a degree
• starts being educated at home and is 16 or over
• starts training that's provided by their employer
• starts a training course that's not approved

Your child's away from home

• has lived away from you for more than 56 days in any 16 week period
• has for at least one day each week in the last eight weeks been looked after by a local authority (in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social Services Board or Trust), a voluntary organisation, or held in secure or non-secure accommodation
• leaves the UK permanently or for more than 52 weeks
• leaves the UK temporarily for more than 12 weeks
• leaves Great Britain to go to Northern Ireland permanently, or Northern Ireland to go to Great Britain permanently
• is in hospital or residential care for 12 weeks or more because they're ill or disabled and you will not be regularly spending money on them

Other changes

• changes their name
• starts receiving benefits in their own right
• marries, forms a civil partnership or starts to live with a partner
• is held in legal custody for more than eight weeks
• goes missing