Don
I have been trying to claim the standard child benefit since October last year with no success. This is the standard benefit that all people with children in Britain can claim regardless of earnings.
My fiancee is Finnish and had a daughter when we met. They both live with me and Nina is now my adoptive daughter.
Back in October I filled in the form to claim the child benefit and sent it off. About 2 months later they replied with a new form about my partners personal circumstances and what child benefit she used to claim in Finland. We had a problem with this form as it assumed that I was also Finnish and as such I couldn't fill it in having never had a Finnish NI number.
We called them and they said we shoudl fill in the Brittish form which we did again. In February they sent the Finnish form again. I called them again and this time they told us to put a line through all the fields that related to me as it didn't apply as I was British. We did so and sent it off.
This morning I received a letter stating the form was invalid and I needed to fill in all the sections about the child benefit that I had claimed before I came to Britian!
FOR GOD'S SAKE. I'M BRITISH.
I've never lived in Finland. How can I fill it in?
I've just got off the phone with them again and guess what? They told me to fill in the British form as I'm British.
It seems there is no procedure for a British national, living with a forign national to claim for child benefit for a child which the british national is the legal guardian.
The sad thing is that if Kaisa had come to the UK on her own, they would bend over backwards to give her every benefit under the sun. Housing, unemployment, child etc etc. Because she lives with me and wishes to have a good life as a mother and housewife, we can't claim anything at all. Even the benefits which we're entitles to.
I am so sick of this country. I've paid massive sums of tax for 15 years but the minute I want something back from the system, I can just go and take running jump.
I understand why people don't bother to work. It's easier.
My fiancee is Finnish and had a daughter when we met. They both live with me and Nina is now my adoptive daughter.
Back in October I filled in the form to claim the child benefit and sent it off. About 2 months later they replied with a new form about my partners personal circumstances and what child benefit she used to claim in Finland. We had a problem with this form as it assumed that I was also Finnish and as such I couldn't fill it in having never had a Finnish NI number.
We called them and they said we shoudl fill in the Brittish form which we did again. In February they sent the Finnish form again. I called them again and this time they told us to put a line through all the fields that related to me as it didn't apply as I was British. We did so and sent it off.
This morning I received a letter stating the form was invalid and I needed to fill in all the sections about the child benefit that I had claimed before I came to Britian!
FOR GOD'S SAKE. I'M BRITISH.
I've never lived in Finland. How can I fill it in?
I've just got off the phone with them again and guess what? They told me to fill in the British form as I'm British.
It seems there is no procedure for a British national, living with a forign national to claim for child benefit for a child which the british national is the legal guardian.
The sad thing is that if Kaisa had come to the UK on her own, they would bend over backwards to give her every benefit under the sun. Housing, unemployment, child etc etc. Because she lives with me and wishes to have a good life as a mother and housewife, we can't claim anything at all. Even the benefits which we're entitles to.
I am so sick of this country. I've paid massive sums of tax for 15 years but the minute I want something back from the system, I can just go and take running jump.
I understand why people don't bother to work. It's easier.
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