CBTM00001 - Child Benefit Technical Manual: Main Contents
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| CBTM01000 | Overview and purpose |
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The purpose and structure of the CBTM / The purpose of Child Benefit and Guardians Allowance / How to claim or get more information / Comments about this manual |
| CBTM02000 | Claims, awards and rates |
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Making a claim / Time within
which claim is to be made / Amending claims / Withdrawing claims /
Defective applications / Claims for Child Benefit treated as claims
for Guardians Allowance and vice versa / Advance claims and awards
/ Date of entitlement under an award for the purposes of payability
/ Effective date of change of rate / Duration of claims and awards
Child Benefit rates / Guardians Allowance rates |
| CBTM03000 | Payments |
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| Manner of payment / Direct credit transfers / Time of payment / Circumstances where a person may elect to have Child Benefit paid weekly / Elections for weekly payment by persons to whom Child Benefit was payable for a period beginning before and ending after 15 March 1982 / Manner of making elections for weekly payment under Regulations 19 and 20 / Interim payments / Information to be given and changes to be notified / Fractional amounts of benefit or allowance / Payments to persons under 18 years old / Extinguishment of right to a payment if it is not obtained within the prescribed period |
| CBTM04000 | Third parties |
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| Persons who may be able to act on behalf of those unable to act / Persons who may proceed with a claim made by a person who has died / Persons who may receive payments which a person who has died has not obtained / Persons who may make a claim on behalf of a person who has died / Payment to one person on behalf of another / Payment to partner as alternative payee |
| CBTM05000 - part 1 | Overpayments and recoveries |
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Recovery of overpayments made by direct credit transfer / Circumstances in which a determination need not be reversed, varied, revised or superseded / Offsetting prior payments of Child Benefit and Guardians Allowance against arrears payable by virtue of a subsequent determination / Offsetting prior payments of Income Support or Jobseekers Allowance against arrears of Child Benefit or Guardians Allowance payable by virtue of a subsequent determination / Exception from offset of recoverable overpayment / Bringing interim payments into account / Recovery of overpaid interim payments |
| CBTM05000 - part 2 | Misrepresentation and failure to disclose - general considerations |
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| Consequences of misrepresentation and failure to disclose / Considering the overpayment question / Considering recoverability / Consideration of evidence / Balance of probabilities / Effect of destruction of documents / Effect of criminal conviction / Deciding between misrepresentation and failure to disclose |
| CBTM05000 - part 3 | Misrepresentation |
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Meaning of misrepresentation / Misrepresentation - allegation of disclosure / Misrepresentation - incomplete statements / Misrepresentation - knowledge of a material fact / Exception to misrepresentation / Misrepresentation - declaration on orderbook foils / Misrepresentation - no declaration on orderbook foils / Misrepresentation - sight of orderbook foils / Misrepresentation - circumstantial evidence |
| CBTM05000 - part 4 | Failure to disclose |
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| Meaning of failure to disclose / Points to consider / Disclose / The duty to disclose / The legal duty to disclose (general) / Failure to comply with legal duty to disclose specific changes in relation to entitlement / Failure to comply with legal duty to disclose specific changes in relation to payment of benefit / Failure to comply with legal duty to disclose other changes relating to entitlement to, or payment of benefit / Disclosure reasonably to be expected / Material fact already known by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs / Disclosure by a third party |
| CBTM05000 - part 5 | Overpayment is recoverable |
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| Deciding from whom the overpayment is to be recoverable |
| CBTM05000 - part 6 | Period of the overpayment |
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Start of the recoverable overpayment - misrepresentation / Start of the recoverable overpayment - failure to disclose / End of the recoverable overpayment - misrepresentation and failure to disclose |
| CBTM06000 | Responsibility for a child or qualifying young person |
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Meaning of - responsible for a child or qualifying young person in a week / Meaning of - living with the claimant / Treated as - living with the claimant/ Days of absence to be disregarded / Maximum disregard for days in hospital or in prescribed residential accommodation / Meaning of - prescribed residential accommodation / Incurring expenditure for a child or qualifying young person / Contributing to the cost of providing for a child or qualifying young person / Contributions made separately by two or more persons / Meaning of week |
| CBTM07000 | Prescribed conditions for a child or qualifying young person |
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Meaning of child and qualifying young person / Education and training conditions / Meaning of - advanced education including studying both non-advanced and advanced education and working whilst undertaking relevant education or training/ Meaning of - full-time education/ Meaning of - relevant education and training/ Meaning of - approved training/Meaning of - qualifying body/Meaning of - Careers Service/ Meaning of - Connexions Service/ Meaning of - remunerative work / Continued entitlement until 31 August for 16 year olds / Extension period for 16 and 17 year olds / Interruptions to relevant education or training / Qualifying young persons terminal dates / Qualifying young person gets other financial support |
| CBTM08000 | Exclusions from entitlement to Child Benefit and Priority between persons entitled to Child Benefit |
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| The structure of the law. Understanding the chapter and the law which is used / Qualifying young person living with another person as a member of a couple / Qualifying young person in a relevant relationship / More than one person entitled to claim Child Benefit / Priority of entitlement between persons entitled to Child Benefit / Relinquishing the right of priority to Child Benefit entitlement / Child or qualifying young person in detention, care, etc / Definition/interpretation of a day and a week when a child is in detention, care etc / The schedule 9 exclusion from entitlement to Child Benefit when in detention or care / The 8 week continuing entitlement under the schedule 9 exclusion / Circumstances where ChB entitlement starts/resumes after the 9th consecutive week in detention or care / Fostering and adoption exclusions / Child or qualifying young person undergoing imprisonment or detention in legal custody / Child or qualifying young person in care / Interpretation of facts existing in a week |
| CBTM09000 | Entitlement after death of a child or qualifying young person |
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| Continued period of entitlement following the death of a child or qualifying young person / The term "couple" means. |
| CBTM10000 | Residence and Immigration |
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| Residence: Introduction /
Present ordinarily resident and right to reside / Temporary absent
from Great Britain or Northern Ireland / Circumstances in which a
child or qualifying young person is to be treated as being in Great
Britain or Northern Ireland / Overlap of entitlement under both the
legislation of Great Britain and Northern Ireland / Crown servants
posted overseas / Right to reside in the UK / Seafarers and
offshore workers
Immigration: Introduction / General exclusion of people subject to immigration control from entitlement / people subject to immigration control / people not subject to immigration control / Exceptions to the general exclusion. |
| CBTM11000 | General and supplementary provisions |
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| Persons treated as residing together / Polygamous marriages / Right to Child Benefit of voluntary organisation / No requirement to state national insurance number / Exception to rules preventing duplicate payments / Use of electronic communications |
| CBTM12000 | Guardians Allowance |
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Making a claim / time limits for claims / evidence / amending claims / Withdrawing a claim / Defective claims/ treating GA as ChB and ChB as GA / Advance claims / Date payment starts for claim / Date of change of rate of GA / Duration of claims / General conditions of entitlement / Modifications / Step Parents / Fosterers and Prospective Adopters are excluded from Child Benefit and so excluded from Guardians Allowance when the child is in care of Local Authority / Adopted child or qualifying young person not in care of the local authority / Illegitimate child or qualifying young person / Child or qualifying young person of divorced parents / Surviving parent in prison / Rate of allowance and payment to the National or Northern Irish Insurance Fund / Residence / Prescribed manner for making an election under section 77(9) of the Act or section 77(9) of the NI Act / Whereabouts of surviving parent / Frozen rates for claimants living abroad / Manner of payments & overpayments |
| CBTM13000 | Abbreviations |
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