Residential school and benefits

[firecracker123]

I am looking at a residential school for my ASD son, probably on a 39 week per year placement with some weekends at home. It would be provided in his EHCP plan on the basis of an educational need?

How does this affect entitlement to tax credits and DLA mobility (currently have a mobility car). With tax credits, do I retain them and do I lose the disability premium because I would lose DLA care component ?

I'm not sure - I think you need to phone DWP

I can't help you on the tax credits, but he would still get the DLA mobility. He would also get the DLA care for the days he is at home - you have to fill in forms regularly about what days he comes home, and goes back to school, so they can work out how many days he was at home and then they pay you for those.

dla is done real quick(after the first time) but omg carers is slow...
just wanted to warn you

Carer's is awful ATM. still waiting for a decision from an application in July

You won't get carers allowance if he only comes home some weekends (unless the rules have changed). The criteria for getting it are caring for a minimum of 35 hours a week. If he were to come home every weekend, they count it from the hour he enters your care, until the hour he leaves it - so at 48 hours for a weekend (assuming he gets home say at 5 pm Friday night, and goes back 5 pm Sunday night), you would qualify for carers allowance. If however, he only comes home every 2nd or 3rd weekend, that this is not 35 hours per care and you won't get carers allowance.

Did you have to battle your LEA to get them to agree to a residential school? Bit off topic, I know, just asking as we may have to go down that route in the future.

Again off topic but c4ke I would give them a ring, I only applied at the end of july and started getting payments at the end of september, it would have been sooner according to the letter but I had recieved holiday pay from my previous job so didnt qualify!

OP, when my Dd2 was a reisdential 6th form we didnt lose tax credits, I think because we were still responsible for her day to day expenses. However she wasnt getting DLA or the disabled element of tax credits so I would definitely check that!

Ineed, ringing them weekly.always the same story - backlog.eventually applied for JSA and now found a job but CA still owes me 4 weeks of CA from august

luckily had family to help me out but God knows what happens if you don't and wait for your CA for 3-4 months. it is a gateway benefit And affects other Benfits as well. awful