Child Benefit - based on last year's salary or this year's (mat pay)

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Would be very grateful for any help from anyone in the know - I expected this to be an easy question but I can't find the answer

For the 18/19 tax year I will have earned too much to claim child benefit (or potentially near enough to the top threshold of the claim and pay back bracket that it's not worth it - I don't know much about it at the moment)

However for the next tax year the vast majority of my pay will be mat pay. Although this will be above statutory mat pay I will definitely earn below the child benefit threshold

Does anyone know if I can claim child benefit or is our entitlement based on last year's wages?

DH's salary is below the threshold for both periods

Thanks!!

Taxable income in each tax year.

You can stop and restart as necessary. You could apply/restart it at the end of this tax year if you think you will not go over £60k in the next tax year.

P.s. anyone can claim CB, it's just that some or all may need paying back depending on the wage level