Child Benefit

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Child Benefit payments to rise for millions of UK households in April

New Year 2024: all the early DWP and HMRC benefit payment dates

Payments arrangements over the festive period are changing.

Benefits claimants are being urged to prepare for key Christmas and New Year pay...

Students react after opening their GCSE results at the City of London Academy Southwark (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Parents have just a week to update HMRC or risk losing benefit payment

Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown. PIC: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Labour can help fight poverty by removing two-child benefit cap - Susan Dalgety

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More households to receive payments of up to £500 - how to apply

Child Benefit is the Government's way of acknowledging the extra costs involved with raising a child - but it could be stopped or reduced for these reasons.

Parents warned that Child Benefit could be stopped for these reasons

Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance rates are set to increase with the new financial year in April.

Child Benefit payment is set to increase in April - here’s by how much

Here's all you need to know about child benefits in Scotland. Photo: Denise Duplinski / Pexels / Canva Pro.

All you need to know about child benefits in Scotland

Benefits payments will rise in April (Photo: Adobe)

New rates for Universal Credit as payments rise from today

Child Benefit payments will increase in April (Photo: Adobe)

New Child Benefit rates from next month as payments to increase

Several changes have been made to UK benefits (Getty Images)

How to find out if your benefits have increased this month

This is how much Child Benefit payments will go up by in April - and who can cla...

Pensioners living alone will be eligible for the highest amount of winter fuel allowance

What is the DWP winter fuel allowance, do I qualify and when should I expect it?

Pupils are being advised to wear extra layers

Pupils told to wrap up in class as school windows to be kept open over winter

Parents have been advised to ensure children wear extra layers since windows will be open for ventilation

Help plea for low-income parents over school clothes
POVERTY campaigners are calling for more help for low-income families after Edinburgh advised parents to make sure children dressed with extra layers after the October break because classroom windows will be kept open to help guard against Covid.
Ian Swanson

Child poverty In Scotland is not inevitable but the result of political choice

We must invest more to meet poverty targets - Alison Johnstone

The scheme is designed to help vulnerable people pay for heating over the colder months (Photo: Shutterstock)

You could be eligible for up to £300 in Winter Fuel Allowance - here's how to ap...

The second bank holiday weekend of May is fast approaching, but if you’re a recipient of benefits and are due to be paid over the bank holiday weekend, your payment days could change slightly as a result (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s why your benefits could be paid early this month

The penalties for failing to file your tax return on time are automatic and fixed (Photo: Shutterstock)

You could be fined £100 if you miss this tax deadline - here’s everything you ne...

The way you claim child benefit could affect your state pension - here's everyth...

Don’t miss this vital deadline if you claim High Income Child Benefit

This is how the August bank holiday might affect benefit payments