Stopped Child Benefit - What's Going On?

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I Stopped Child Benefit From Being Paid: How I did it
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Hello how are you, my name is Keith for those who don't know me, I run a YouTube channel called @ChildMaintenanceUK, concerning child maintenance and The Child Maintenance Service. I speak to people who are receiving parents as well as paying parents okay, and I generally help with those sort of CMS inquiries that people struggle to find the answers to.

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Transcript

Today I thought I'd do something slightly different thought I'd talk about my own case and my own experiences, and in particular I'm going to talk about the stopping of child benefit and how I got it stopped, and how I managed to get a child removed.

So I am a parent. I pay CMS okay, I've been paying CMS for about 3 and a half years and last year here one of my children left college. And I wasn't aware of this at the time he left, College in April and I found out about this in about June, and up until June / July I was paying child maintenance for that child. But once I found out about it I was able to get it stopped and the reason I was able to get it stopped was several different reason okay, but first of all for those who've seen my video on Terminal dates you will know, okay, if you to paid attention! That there are four terminal dates a year for child benefit and one of those terminal dates is the end of May the other one terminal dates the end of August the end of November, and February. And what we mean by terminal date is a child ceases to be in education they carry on to pay child benefit up until the terminal date stop so clearly my child left College in April. CMS should have stopped at the end of May it didn't and I found out.

Okay so I went to the CMS and first said look my child's finished education why am I paying CMS and what they did is did what I kind of expected them to do run a child benefit check.. Okay the person I spoke to she didn't have the relevant permissions to run a child benefit check so she had to go to a colleague and she phoned back the same day and said child benefit is still being paid and I thought that's interesting because I know my child's college so then I was stuck in a situation where my child had left College child benefit was still being paid okay and because child benefit was still being paid CMS wouldn't stop my child if I remember rightly I was paying some like £170 per week so to remove a child would have made quite a big difference it did make a difference obviously that lowered my payments up so what did I do about this.

Well I rang the HMRC, the child benefit people and they said because I wasn't the the person claiming the benefit that I couldn't they couldn't talk so I said well can I open a case then for child benefit and they typed in a few things to the computer and basically said no because child benefit's being paid. And obviously I knew it was being paid because I was paying CMS so they then said well the only way we can get stop this okay is by you submitting a claim for child benefit for well to be honest as much as my ex-wife and I don't get on the last thing I wanted to do is put a claim in for child benefit so I didn't actually I decided I'd try a different didn't want to report my ex for child benefit but I do appreciate that actually that's the normal procedure and that's what I tell people to do and I know that works because actually what they do is when you make a child benefit fraud report they contact the other parent and say is your child's still in education if they say yes they say well prove it and invariably they can't prove it so the child benefit stops but I didn't want to go down that route okay.

So what I actually did is I contacted the head of HMRC Jim Harra. And I also at the same time emailed, the same email okay that I sent to Jim Harra @ HMRC I also included the director of the Child Maintenance Service.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Who am I
00:34 This is what I said to CMS
02:00 Then I called HMRC
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