To ask this about child disability

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Another user's thread made me question this...
A bit of a question, as I was never aware of the 50k yearly salary (maybe I did but I am far from 50k a year and so was my partner when we first applied) and I dont really know how much my partner earns at the moment! I presumed the sum was 100k like in case of tax free childcare...

We have separate accounts and split the bills etc and pay different things form our personal accounts, so I never really asked him what he earns.
I actually figured out now he may have gone up over 60k when he changed jobs mid last year, which means we would have to repay the child benefits altogether for the last year. If this is the case, we will obviously do, but... how would they know why we're stopping? Or when will they figure out we should not be getting them anymore?

The CB is paid into my account. I earn under 40k.

We dont have a spare 1600 to pay back in a lump sum. We have high outgoings and have been paying through the noses for private therapy for our disabled child. I am happy to stop the child benefit immediately, but I wonder if that will make it look 'suspicious' and they will not just stop them but send us the bill?And if they will be able to figure out why we stopped them?

You might be getting the money, but he will be the one to pay back.

He really, really needs to do a tax return. To our surprise, every year DH has earned over £50k, we've had a rebate (due to pension contributions and charity giving) even when child benefit is taken into account. In case you missed it, he needs to do a tax return!

To make it clearer, neither of does have spare. I don't have the money, he does not either. He is paying a bigger share of a lot of things as the higher earner.

In that case after he has completed his tax return he contacts HMRC and requests to pay the High Income Child Benefit charge in installments or through his tax code although it might be too late for that now depending on which tax year you are talking about.

After his pension contributions you may not have to repay any. Take a deep breath and work through it all methodically.

Just wanted to check you are claiming dla for your child.