Child benefit still paid if moving abroad?

[NoMoreMrRight]

Planning a move to Spain next year with my DC (I'm divorced) and I just called the Child Benefit help line to find out whether CB would still be paid when living abroad (moving permanently) but after holding for 45 mins they said they cannot tell me anything until I actually inform them that I'm moving and to call them again two weeks before I'm due to leave the country.

I would like to know beforehand though for budgeting purposes, and I was wondering whether anyone on here had any knowledge about this?

Thank you in advance

You can get some benefits still if you received them prior to move eg JSA. Check on .gov website.

But child benefit is only paid for up to 52 weeks if the move abroad is INTENDED to be temporary. You are me at to be a permanent resident of UK in order to receive it.

For some reason the receipt of an automatic NI number is linked to child benefit

how does that work now some people don't receive child benefit due to earning over the threshold?

Those kids who weren't claimed for will only be 4 and under so the ni number issue won't yet have appeared. It is still best to register a child for cb but opt out of payments as that maintains the mother's ni credits if she is a sahm and makes it easier if circumstances change to claim. Iirc the rules changed in early 2000s to allow cb to be claimed when living abroad.

Thank you all, really useful information and I'll be making a note of all comments for reference in a few months.

Actually you don't get it even if you are still tax resident in Uk and pay substantial UK taxes. You have to be resident to qualify.

I can't believe you think you're entitled to this, when you won't be paying anything in tax or NI here.

most of our system is residence based, nothing to do with what taxes you pay or what passport you hold.

As I think it should be.

If you're in receipt of an NI-based benefit - JSA, ESA etc then you can still continue to get child benefit if you're living in an EU country.

I am planning to move to Malta once my registration is through. I have a 5yo daughter and we currently living in Scotland. Can her father stop me from taking her as I think this would be an amazing opportunity for us both

Bagsley you need to start a new thread for this otherwise no-one will see it

Actually you don't get it even if you are still tax resident in Uk and pay substantial UK taxes. You have to be resident to qualify.

Not entirely true...there is an exemption for Crown Servants. We moved to Belgium when dh was posted there and I still got UK cb, as I wanted HRP to make up my NI credits. I continued to receive it until they stopped it for higher rate taxpayers, in 2012 I think, so had it from 2006 when we moved abroad for HM Forces.

Same here, entitled to child benefit as a crown servant abroad and as a low paid crown servant abroad, I get child tax credits too.

hi, can i Aask how much child benefit you het in germany? thank you

Easy to use google, just hope I have chosen the correct link!
www.kindergeld.org/

Just bear in mind that while you can freely move to Spain now, you may not have the right to stay there if the uk exits the EU. Take the possibility of needing to apply for work permit/residency into account with your plans.

'JSA,'

JSA has pretty strict rules about being abroad and still being able to claim now, even for holiday, and of course, you have to sign on every fortnight (sometimes weekly) so you'd have to return to your job centre from your residence abroad.

'I am planning to move to Malta once my registration is through. I have a 5yo daughter and we currently living in Scotland. Can her father stop me from taking her as I think this would be an amazing opportunity for us both'

Of course he can! How would you feel if he made the same decision to move himself and his daughter and leave you here?