Claim and deal with Child Benefit for someone else

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1. If your child has a baby

If a child you바카라 사이트™re responsible for has a baby, they can claim Child Benefit or you can claim for both them and their baby.

This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg).

If your child claims Child Benefit, they바카라 사이트™ll get:

If you claim on their behalf:

  • you바카라 사이트™ll get £17.25 a week for each additional child you claim for - if you pay the High Income Child Benefit Charge, you바카라 사이트™ll get no extra money
  • your child will not get National Insurance credits

The Child Benefit Office can only pay Child Benefit into one account. This can be a joint account you share with your child.

2. Appointees

You can apply for the right to deal with the Child Benefit of someone who cannot manage their own affairs, for example because they바카라 사이트™re mentally incapable or severely disabled.

This is called becoming an 바카라 사이트˜appointee바카라 사이트™.

You can apply as an individual or as a voluntary organisation.

If you바카라 사이트™re paid to deal with someone else바카라 사이트™s Child Benefit, you바카라 사이트™re known as a 바카라 사이트˜paid agent바카라 사이트™.

You바카라 사이트™re not an appointee if you just help someone complete their claim form.

How to become an appointee

Contact the Child Benefit Office to apply. They바카라 사이트™ll discuss if becoming an appointee is the best option and tell you what you need to do.

Your responsibilities

As an appointee, you must do things like:

The Child Benefit will be paid into your bank account.

How to become a paid agent

Your client must send a letter to the Child Benefit Office, saying you can deal with Child Benefit on their behalf.

Stop or change an appointee or paid agent

Write to the Child Benefit Office within one month of when you want to stop or change the appointee.

3. Authorisation

The Child Benefit Helpline can only discuss a claim with the person named on the claim form (or their appointee). A partner or someone else can get general advice but they must be 바카라 사이트˜authorised바카라 사이트™ to discuss a claim with the helpline.

The process is different if you act for a lot of clients or you바카라 사이트™re a paid agent.

Get authorised

The claimant must fill in form CH105, or write a letter with the same information, and send it to the Child Benefit Office - the address is on the form.

The authorisation lasts 12 months unless a different end date is put on the form. It usually takes 2 days to get authorised from when your form is received. Usually, you won바카라 사이트™t get a letter confirming the authorisation.

The Child Benefit Office will also need to have received the claimant바카라 사이트™s Child Benefit claim form.

More than one person can be authorised but they each must send a CH105 form.

If you act for a lot of clients

Write to the Child Benefit Office to register as an 바카라 사이트˜intermediary organisation바카라 사이트™ if you work in the voluntary sector and act for many people.

You can get authorisation if you바카라 사이트™re an intermediary organisation and your client has given you a completed CH105. You must keep your client바카라 사이트™s CH105 for 7 years from the date it was signed.

If you바카라 사이트™re a paid agent

Your client must send a letter to the Child Benefit Office, saying you can deal with Child Benefit on their behalf.

To authorise you to deal with High Income Child Benefit Tax Charge matters they also need to fill in form CH995.

Cancel an authorisation

An authorisation can be cancelled by writing to the Child Benefit Office.