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Make sure you get your Child Trust Fund payments |
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We've just had this through from Contact a Family. There seems to be two issues here, firstly to make sure your child is receiving their Disability Living Allowance and secondly to make sure that once that is in place to receive the contribution to your child's Trust Fund account. You should get in touch with Contact a Family for help with your DLA application which can be quite a complicated process, to put it mildly!
Contact a Family is calling for families with disabled children to seek urgent advice about their benefits entitlements.
From 2010 the Government will contribute £100 every year to the Child Trust Fund accounts of disabled children, with severely disabled children receiving £200 per year. To benefit from these payments a child must receive Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and have been born on or after 1 September 2002. The first payments are due in April 2010 for those in receipt of DLA at any point in 2009-10.
Sarah Rush, Head of Advice at Contact a Family, said: "DLA is the key benefit designed to meet the additional costs of raising a disabled child. Despite this, more than half of families with disabled children are not claiming a potential £119.45 per week. It is crucial that all families with disabled children who are eligible for DLA make a claim.
"For those families whose children are seven and under in September you should make a claim now to ensure your child receives the significant annual payment to their Child Trust Fund."
Get in touch with DSA's Benefit Advisers for further advice on 0845 230 0372
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