Child Benefit from the UK

**DaveyG** · 8th November 2007 12:55

if I live in Thailand with my wife and child and the child is registered in the UK can we get child benefit?

I contributed to the UK for ten years and still pay my national insurance stamp. I read a story the other day about a Polish woman who gets child benefit and has never been to the UK just her husband worked there one summer.

**defender** · 8th November 2007 13:18

Doesn't look like you are really supposed to, but that doesn't mean you can't I guess

HM Revenue & Customs: Child Benefit - If you are coming from abroad or are going abroad

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/ch5_notes.pdf

Was it perchance a story in a UK gutter newspaper with the general gist of having a go at foreigners?

**DaveyG** · 8th November 2007 13:30

The Daily Mail, so yeah :0)
Everyone else seems to squeeze money out of the UK surely it's time I had a bit of payback.

**defender** · 8th November 2007 13:42

Just read the article mate - it's all swings and roundabouts mate I guess (although not in the Daily Mail of course!)

Plenty of Brits living abroad exploiting foreign systems etc. - nothing to get excited about IMO (unless you are a moody, bigoted Daily Mail reader with an axe to grind against forteigners and/or Labour ministers

)

**DaveyG** · 8th November 2007 13:49

just want a bit of the pie if it's available, you don't ask you don't get i suppose.

**defender** · 8th November 2007 13:51

Doesn't look like it is mate ..... judging by that article the loophole will be closed for Eastern Europeans in the future as well

**henry hill** · 9th November 2007 14:44

Originally Posted by DaveyG

just want a bit of the pie if it's available, you don't ask you don't get i suppose

yep let everybody get their hands out for free stuff and then complain why the NHS is such a mess. If your not in Britain you've got no rights to screw the system. Thats my tuppence worth anyway.

**CupidStunt** · 10th November 2007 03:27

DG
Why are you still paying national insurance stamp?
if you don't mind me asking.

**DaveyG** · 10th November 2007 07:52

So I can get a pension when I retire.

**defender** · 10th November 2007 12:16

Originally Posted by CupidStunt

Why are you still paying national insurance stamp?

Wish I had thought it through. I was self-employed for a stint before I came here, but I stopped paying stamp duty and so I haven't kept up my NI contributions

**tosser** · 10th November 2007 13:11

You have to be resident in the U.K. to get child benefit.

Regarding the old age pension there was a new pensions act introduced on July 26 2007.

You now 'only' need 30 qualifying years to get a full pension - it was 44 years!

Your wife, as your dependant, is entitled to 60% of your pension which is payable to you.

Currently you would receive, about, 40,000baht per. month, less tax of course.

Voluntary contributions work out at around 27,000baht a year.

You can obtain a forecast which will tell you precisely how you stand.

HM Revenue & Customs: Home Page

**DaveyG** · 10th November 2007 21:29

This is great, I am a resident of the UK. I guess things can change though.

**CupidStunt** · 10th November 2007 22:57

Originally Posted by DaveyG

So I can get a pension when I retire.

How old are you?

I dob't think there will be a pension for most and even if there is what will it amount to?
fuck all is what!
I think you'd be better off keeping it and putting it somewhere else, kids bank account maybe?

**Well** · 10th November 2007 23:26

Originally Posted by tosser

You have to be resident in the U.K. to get child benefit.

seems more than fair enough...

**Ice Maiden** · 11th November 2007 00:14

I work for Children's Services and we had a couple in asking about this a few weeks ago, I couldn't remember if they managed to get child benefit for the child though.

I'll have a talk with my head of service and see what the deal is about this situation mate