Young person

From their 16th birthday, and up to their 20th birthday, a person will be known as a qualifying young person, providing that they are

• Receiving full-time, non-advanced education
   
• Receiving approved training
   
• Enrolled in or accepted for full-time, non-advanced education or approved training before their 19th birthday (even if they only start the course or training after their 19th birthday)

And, they are not

• In advanced education
   
• In full time, non-advanced education received through their employer, or because of their work
   
• In approved training provided by a contract of employment
   
• Receiving Income Support ( IS), income-based Job Seeker’s Allowance ( JSA (IB)), income-related Employment and Support Allowance or tax credits in their own right

A person is also classed as a qualifying young person, and will still be treated as a member of the claimant’s family, where they are

• Under the age of 18 and have registered with a qualifying body within 20 weeks of leaving full-time education or approved training

And

• We are notified within 3 months of the date they left full-time education or approved training

And, they are

• Not receiving IS, Income Based JSA , income-related Employment and Support Allowance or tax credits in their own right

And

• Not normally engaged in remunerative work for 24 hours or more a week

1. For more information see Children And Qualifying Young Persons
   
   
2. Young persons receiving approved training could not qualify before 6 April 2006
   
   
3. The approved training scheme does not have to result in a named qualification
   
   
4. Young persons enrolled in full-time, non-advanced education or approved training before their 19th birthday (even if they only start the course or training after their 19th birthday) could not qualify before 16 August 2007
   
   
5. The claimant is no longer responsible for a young person who is paid Incapacity Benefit or contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance in their own right
   
   
6. From 1 September 2008 a claimant cannot be treated as being responsible for a young person, and will not be entitled to CTC for them, if

• The young person becomes part of a couple, and their partner is not in full-time, non-advanced education or approved training

Or

• The young person is the claimant’s partner

Note: This change will not affect claimants receiving CTC for a young person where that young person was living with a partner on 31 August 2008