I have a pretty good job but my ex-partner is on benefits. I have full residency of our daughters but they have dinner with their mother a few nights a week - whatever they want to arrange with her and usually stay overnight a couple of nights as well. She claims the Child Benefit for both as she feeds them a few nights a week as I said and that's fine with me as I wouldn't get it anyway due to my income. I do not, nor ever have claimed either CB or Working Tax Credit for my kids. At this point, she cannot claim tax credits either as I have full residency (details of that not really relevant to the question). I am happy for us to now agree to a shared residency of 50-50 if it enables her to get more financial support. We would have to agree that she would not try to claim maintenance from me if I agreed to this, but that is a separate consideration.
Does 50-50 residency give her the ability to claim Child Tax Credit and is it reduced in any way due to the shared residency status?
Does 50-50 residency give her the ability to claim Child Tax Credit and is it reduced in any way due to the shared residency status?
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