Child Trust Fund extra payments for Disability

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I didn't realise until now that you are entitled to a bit more if your child receives DLA from April 2010

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Your child will automatically receive CTF disability payments from April 2010 if they:

• are eligible for a CTF
• have a CTF account open and
• are entitled to any rate of DLA

How much will my child get?

Children entitled to DLA, whose award includes the highest rate care component will receive a CTF disability payment of £200 per tax year
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Children entitled to any other rate of DLA will receive a CTF disability payment of £100 per tax year.

If your child?s DLA award changes to include the highest rate of the care component, the government will top-up the CTF disability payment to £200 for that tax year. And they will automatically get a £200 payment in each following tax year if they remain on that DLA care rate.

Not sure from whence this came, nobody told me about it until today when it was announced that it's all going anyway - DH read it in The Sun on the train! Just FYI

yeah we had a letter in last month saying ds was getting his £200 paid into his CTF, shame its stopping!!

Yeah, and we won't see anything from the money being given to families in its place either, DS1 isn't disabled enough apparently....

Will this be stopping or is it just that babies born from now on won't get a CTF? Seems a bit unfair when we've just got a letter saying DS1 will be getting £100 paid in every year, to have it taken away again before he even gets it !!

you will only get it this year as its stopping all together for everyone in january 2011 and the babies who do get it this year to start them off will only get £50 or £100 instead of the £250 or £500 previously given

I just read this too and was shocked as I had no idea they were giving extra payments to those who received DLA.

I am sick and tired of finding these things out by chance and after the event. If they are going to make money available ( and boy do we need it) why the hell isn't it properly publicised and administered?

Oh joy, tomorrow I shall be ringing around a few government departments trying to get a straight answer as to if / why not dd has received this.

It just seems so unfair to be given something one minute just to have it taken away the next. And to think that David Cameron had a disabled son himself!!!

A few hundred quid stuck in a bank account for my son is of almost no use to us or him. Decent respite is the difference between keeping him at home or having to put him in care. In a recession like this one, I can't see the arguments against this one. Good on Cameron (boy, I never thought I'd be agreeing with a Tory!)

But donkeyderby, this extra amount that was being put in their accounts is all help towards their future, no matter how big or small the amount. Just seems so unfair to have it given to them & a couple of weeks later, taken away again.

If you have a CTF set up already then the money goes in automatically if your child receives DLA. You don't have to do anything.
The money will not be taken out of the account - it just means that from the now - or the end of this year (I'm not sure when it's being pulled) no one else will get this top up.

CTF was always a vote-winner but if it is in place and is going why not check you have been given all you were entitled to under the old rules? The cost of the administration which was in place would justify it.

My ds was awarded DLA for care in March and the helpline told me that it would be paid in by November. At the latest. I am in the process of applying for mobility as he can not reliably walk more than a metre or two. Apparently if we are granted this we qualify for a little bit more.

I do agree that decent respite and other things would be better. I know I am lucky in that the DLA and the tax credits cover everything at the moment but it won't always be so.

ChunkyMonkeysMum do you know about our Riven and Dave? There was face-to-face discussion

No I don't Milady - please tell me more !!