child benefit not paid

[unicornwonders]

hi i normally receive my payments every monday for one child (4yo) i’ve received no letters or anything and had payment as normal last week. Although my payments are on mondays, i receive them saturday due to my bank, but this week it hasn’t come through and it’s not my bank as carers has come through like every other week as normal. No change of address etc and her dad wouldn’t of put a claim in and don’t think i can contact them till monday so stressed at what’s going on

There are kids doing their GCSE’s today that couldn’t get to school because of no bus fair. Absolutely disgusting

Payments due Wednesday 5th (from HMRC twitter)

Not going to recieve it now till Wednesday

Yes. And they had until today before it was late.

Aww I'm too far out, sorry. I hope someone can help x

The school didn’t help with that? I find that very hard to believe they’d see a child miss a GCSE exam for want of a bus fare

Thank you reaching out x

Gonna be a tough cpl of days

Just updated.

Could you ask your neighbours for the bus fare? You'll be able 2 pay them back in 2 days

Remember that next time the school asks for money

Schools won’t even give you a calculator if you forget yours for an exam. All I know is 3 people didn’t turn up to the exam that my son was in today and apparently it’s because they couldn’t get it. Exam started at 9am. What exactly was the school meant to do that early?

Someone would have got them if they'd phoned early enough

The parent didn’t have a single school mum friend they could have called? Even if they’d asked on Facebook, someone would have sorted something.

And someone would have been in school from at least 8am. A teacher would have picked them up, the school would have sent a taxi they have a contract with. It would have been taken care of.

Or started waking if possible and hitched a lift

Not sure as only heard about it when he can back after the exam.

I've tried to find some sort of help for you to access. I found this on Facebook...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?id=100064746454357&story_fbid=876054271229447

There's also

https://m.facebook.com/eatUPcharity/

And

https://renfrewshire.foodbank.org.uk/

You can also download the Olio app for free food in your local area. X

How awful that this has caused so much chaos and that so many people are living hand to mouth like this, with no back up plan when things go wrong. I feel bad for everyone affected.

I suppose a lot of people nowadays have no savings at all, due to the cost of living crisis etc? And the state doesn't care. Hence the rise of food banks etc.

How could this be changed?

Hopefully the GE will start a wave of change. One can but hope!

For the lady above I agree that some moan and don’t need it but just remember the ones that do and one of those is my daughter whose apparently been overlooked and told her today that it should all be sorted as her cut of date was 23rd May. Her baby is 3 months old and she applied online when she had her baby

It’s a bit weird parliament was dissolved on Thursday then the next day this all happened!

My daughter also one of those today whose other child’s benefit wasn’t in the Bank too

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So, what's the latest update? Has everyone received the CB money now? Or some still pending?

I can’t believe that they are making people wait until Wednesday now, absolute disgrace. Don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow managed to scrap together what I could for dinner tonight out the freezer. Only got two nappies left, can’t believe they have put people in this position, maybe next time when people are phoning and saying I think there’s an issue instead of palming us off and Sayimg it’s your bank actually look into to it. It’s just a joke and they chose to give us an update after they close pretty convenient that is