I have my son the majority of the time but his mum gets all the benefits, any advice?

bigdad

Carers allowance and DLA I am a split parent and have been for 4 years we have an autistic son who is registered at his mom's address but he spends over 28 weeks a year with me every other plus extras making it over 28 weeks his mom gets all the benefits DLA carers child benefit and extra payments he is entitled to I get nothing and need financial support I am under the understanding that DWP should get told of changes in care so that they can amend the payments I am sure they don't know I think it's unfair to care a majority of the time with out help and wrong to claim allowances when he is not in his mom's care is there any advice I could be given to make this legal and fair considering I have him majority of the year

Thank you in advance

Jimm_Alumni

Hi @bigdad, welcome to the community! 😊 I agree, if you are looking after him for more than 28 weeks of the year it sounds like you should be getting some amount of help. I assume you're here because you've already tried asking his mum to split the money proportionately?

I don't know the exact way forward with this, but I will try to find out more. In the mean time I am going to move this thread over to our benefits section given it is to do with benefits.