Child Benefits : HMRC technicalities of may claim the benefits.

[sars_notd_virus]

child benefits cant be claimed jointly only the person who is responsible for the child can claim it.

Yes , I believe we seeked your advice about this (child benefit) who is entitled to claim...thank you joebloggs....you are an angel

[Brooksy]

H all, im in the same predicament as to whether to claim child benefit or not. My spouses visa clearly says “no recourse to public funds”, and on the SET(M) application form question 8.6 it asks if either partner has claimed public funds (for which Child Benefit is listed).

Has anyone recently successfully applied for Settlement and stated that they receive Child Benefit?

[joebloggs]

H all, im in the same predicament as to whether to claim child benefit or not. My spouses visa clearly says “no recourse to public funds”, and on the SET(M) application form question 8.6 it asks if either partner has claimed public funds (for which Child Benefit is listed).

Has anyone recently successfully applied for Settlement and stated that they receive Child Benefit?

if your husband is a British citizen or has ILR, then if he's entitled to claim any benefits (thou doesn't claim more of a benefit because of you) then this will not effect your immigration status.

just make sure he claims the benefit and not you. thou you might both have to jointly fill in the application form.

[Brooksy]

It seems to me that the way the Settlement visa application is worded even if it was the UK Citizen that claimed the Child benefit, then that would still class as a breach of the immigration rules.

Section 8 of the SET(M) application form states:

“You must provide evidence that your partner is able to adequately maintain you and any dependants in the United Kingdom without recourse to public funds”.

The SET(M) form is dated 04/2013 so perhaps the rules have changed recently? Most of the advice on this thread is 2+ years old, which is why I was wondering if anyone has successfully applied recently and stated they were claiming benefits.

[Terpe]

..... Most of the advice on this thread is 2+ years old, which is why I was wondering if anyone has successfully applied recently and stated they were claiming benefits.

This thread was started February 2013

[Brooksy]

Thanks for the info joebloggs. Sorry Terpe, I had several threads loaded at the time.