Surrey Welfare Rights Unit

End date of entitlement to child element of CTC

If you are a Tax Credit claimant, if your child continues in non-advanced education, the child element can continue until they turn 20.  It ends on the earliest of the following:

• Your child is 16 or over and has stopped full-time non-advanced education, has not registered for work or training with a qualifying body and it is after 31 August on or following their 16 birthday.
• Your child is under 18 and it is within 20 weeks of full-time non-advanced education ending.  To meet this criteria they must be registered for work or training with a qualifying body and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) must be notified of that registration within 3 months of the date the non-advanced education ended.
• Your child is 18 or over and ends full-time non-advanced education.
• They turn 20.

When your child is no longer part of your Tax Credit claim, you will no longer receive the child, and disabled or severely disabled child elements of Child Tax Credit.  If you are claiming Child Tax Credit without a Working Tax Credit award, and there are no other children in your household, your Tax Credit award will end.  If you are working and receiving Working Tax Credit, you may need to increase your hours to continue receiving Working Tax Credit.