my dd will be 16 next year and im worried how we will manage financially, ive had a provisional tax credits award through for next year which anticipates her birthday slashing my mon ey in half, ex p has already rung me and gleefully told me that he will no longer have to pay maintenance and as far as i can can see, child benefit stops too.
ive worked out i will be 400 pounds a month down and dd has no idea what she wants to do with her life when she leaves school, she seems to think shes just going to bum around with no job etc and im going to keep her, but from what i can see, im not sure what will happen if she goes back to full time education
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What happens when your child reaches 16? does the child benefit, tax credits stop etc, even if they choose to go back to full time education?
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SpaceCadet · 12/08/2006 11:30
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