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  • Emilee
    Emilee Online Community Member Posts: 356 Empowering

    lmac86 what Rachel has said is not correct.

    The reason you are not receiving child element for your youngest is because your eldest child will still be registered as a child on your claim. The change of request you were asked to report regarding level of study will only stop the payment for your eldest, it has not registered that they are no longer classed as child.

    You need to report a change of circumstances and remove your eldest as a child from your claim and report them as 'another person that lives with you'. Until they are removed from the child section of your claim you will not receive child element for the youngest, as it continues to register you have 3 children on your claim.

  • lmac86
    lmac86 Online Community Member Posts: 24 Listener

    That makes perfect sense. Thanks so much.

    I wish these things were explained.

  • Jimm_Alumni
    Jimm_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,713 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/916307#Comment_916307

    Sorry for the confusion that was caused. It's not all straightforward is it. We are lucky that we have people with such incredible knowledge of the intricacies of the benefits system.

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