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Child Benefit and Local Authority care

JoW
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Financial inclusion manager - Wythenshawe Community Housing

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Joined: 7 September 2012

If a baby is taken into LA care from birth at the hospital is there any reason/benefit to the mother claiming CB and or UC and advising that the child has been removed?

I presume she can claim CB but would not be paid unless the child then spends periods with the her at a later point?

Thanks