{"id":270660,"date":"2025-03-31T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/child-benefit-how-much-is-it-going-up-and-who-can-claim-it\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:15:07","slug":"child-benefit-how-much-is-it-going-up-and-who-can-claim-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/child-benefit-how-much-is-it-going-up-and-who-can-claim-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Child benefit: How much is it going up and who can claim it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/branded_news\/1200\/cpsprodpb\/1E88\/production\/_132861870_child_benefit_mar2024-nc.png?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Child benefit: How much is it going up and who can claim it?\" title=\"Child benefit: How much is it going up and who can claim it?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There is a limit to the amount you or your partner can earn before you start to lose child benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/child-benefit-tax-charge\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">High Income Child Benefit Charge<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>, payments start to reduce if one of you earns \u00a360,000. They stop entirely when one of you earns \u00a380,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The thresholds were increased from \u00a350,000 and \u00a360,000 in the 2024 Spring Budget, by the then-Conservative government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the rules have been criticised for unfairly penalising single parents and families with one high earner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A household where two parents earn \u00a360,000 &#8211; with a total household income of \u00a3120,000 &#8211; can get the full amount. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in a single income household the benefit is reduced once the parent earns \u00a360,000 and cut altogether once they earn \u00a380,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-68500022\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a limit to the amount you or your partner can earn before you start to lose child benefit. Under the High Income Child Benefit Charge, external, payments start to reduce if one of you earns \u00a360,000. They stop entirely when one of you earns \u00a380,000. The thresholds were increased from \u00a350,000 and \u00a360,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/branded_news\/1200\/cpsprodpb\/1E88\/production\/_132861870_child_benefit_mar2024-nc.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[8633,11673,7973],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270662,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270660\/revisions\/270662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}