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A qualifying young person can be paid Child tax Credit (CTC) up to and including the last day of full-time education where they don’t intend to continue education to an advanced level. This will be

• the last day of their examinations
• the last day of attendance at college (if not taking examinations)

or

• the last day of attendance at college (if they’re returning until the end of term after taking their examinations).

Where the qualifying young person intends to return to full-time education but at an advanced level, they can be paid CTC up to

• the last day of the academic year, 31 August
• the date the customer considers is the last date of full-time education for that young person, if the young person intended to go on to advanced education but on receipt of their results are unable to do so

or

• the date the customer considers is the last date of full-time education for that young person, if the young person decides in the summer holidays that they don’t wish to go to university and

• look
• register for

or

• start work instead.

Note: »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp date the customer needs to consider should be the date at which the young person no longer regards themselves as being in full-time education.

For example: a customer phones on 10 August to inform TCO that her daughter has found work and no longer intends to go to university. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp customer is asked what date the young person made the decision to find work and not to go to university. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp customer states that although her daughter had been applying for jobs she still intended to go to university if she did get one. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapprefore, her daughter decided when the job was offered and she accepted it. This date is given as 8 August. CTC can therefore be paid to 7 August.

Connexions or Local Support Services

• A young person, aged between 16 and 18, who is registered with Connexions or Local Authority Support Services when they cease full-time education continues to be treated as a qualifying young person for a further 20 weeks (or until their eighteenth birthday, if this is earlier).
• This 20 week continuation will stop on the date when the young person

• starts work of 24 or more hours weekly
• re-enters full time non advanced education (CTC would continue/re-start in this circumstance)
• takes up alternative unapproved training (unless agreed with DfES that CTC covers other training) see definition of what is classed as approved training in the Tax Credit Manual
• claims benefit in their own right
• reaches 18 years of age.