If a young person leaves school to move into advanced education, such as a university course, any benefits and tax credits you claim for them as your dependant will stop.
They will need individual advice about claiming Universal Credit as a disabled student. Contact our free helpline. If your child is temporarily unable to continue their studies for example because of ill-health then you may still be able to get child benefit and tax credits for them. Unfortunately any Universal Credit payments you get for them as a child are likely to stop. If your child is unable to continue with their studies temporarily, you may still be able to continue getting Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit payments for them.
Instead, a temporary absence due to illness or disability can be ignored for as long as seems reasonable in the circumstances, assuming that the young person intends to resume education or training. There is no requirement that the young person intends to return to the same course — it should be sufficient that they intend to return to full time non-advanced education of some sort.
The situation is more complex if you are getting extra Universal Credit payments for your son or daughter instead of tax credits.
You should be able to argue that any Universal Credit payments you get for them as a dependant should continue whilst they remain enrolled or accepted on their course, even if they are temporarily unable to attend due to their health problems.
However, if they lose their place on their course due to non-attendance, any Universal Credit payments you get for them as a dependant will have to stop.
This remains the case even if they intend to start another course in the near future. They may need to consider claiming Universal Credit in their own right as a young adult instead.
Call our free helpline for advice about continuing to claim benefits during a temporary interruption in education. Many young disabled people have the option of claiming Universal Credit as a young disabled adult. Normally you need to be at least 18 years old to claim Universal Credit, but some 16 and 17 year olds can also claim.
If your child gets Universal Credit you will lose any benefits you get for them as part of your family. This is the case even if they remain in full-time non-advanced education or approved training. Given this you will need to think carefully about whether you help them claim in their own right or continue claiming benefits for them as part of your family.
Universal Credit is a means-tested benefit, but if your son or daughter claims it, the Deparment for Work and Pensions will only look at their income and capital and not yours. This will depend on your family circumstances. You need to compare how much they will get if they claim in their own right with what you will lose from your benefits and tax credits. Families with a lower income — who therefore get higher tax credit or Universal Credit payments — run the risk that they will be worse off if a young person claims benefits in their own right.
The higher your own means tested payments, the less chance you will gain if your son or daughter claims in their own right. In some circumstances, you will also see a reduction in help you get with rent and Council Tax. Having a fit note will allow them to start claiming UC straightaway so long as they are not treated as in education.
You claim Universal Credit by making a claim online via the gov. If for some reason you are unable to claim on-line, call the Universal Credit Helpline on If your child is treated as receiving education, the situation is more more complicated. A young person receiving education is normally refused Universal Credit unless they can show that they get either DLA or PIP and they have been assessed as having a limited capability for work. The rules are extremely complex, so see our webpage on Universal Credit for young people in education.
Contact our free helpline for further information. You should check if you can get Housing Benefit. You can make a new claim for Pension Credit even if only one of you has reached State Pension age if both of the following apply:. You might be able to claim Universal Credit if you meet all the other conditions and also one of these:. Find out how to get started with your Universal Credit application.
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