Currently, if you have, for example, four children born before 6 April 2017, then you will still receive additional payments. That relates to children aged under 16, or young people aged under 20 who are in full-time education or training.
If a parent, or parents, have one child, and the next are twins or triplets, then a claim can be made for all these children.
Claims can also be made if children are born after rape, or from a coercive relationship. Reeves said she would end this “rape clause” calling it “dehumanising and cruel” to women.
Payments can also go to children who are adopted, in your care rather than local authority care, or are a child of your child.
