Chapter 3: Children in hospital
This chapter covers:
1. Child benefit and guardian’s allowance (below)
2. Means-tested benefits (
here)
3. Non-means-tested benefits (
here)
5. Help visiting your child (
here)
Hospital inpatient
Your child counts as a hospital inpatient if s/he is being maintained free of charge while having medical or other treatment as an inpatient in an NHS hospital or similar institution.
1Reg 2(4) SS(HIP) Regs If your child is being treated as a private patient, s/he does not count as an inpatient for benefit purposes.
‘Medical or other treatment’ is treatment by a doctor, dentist or professionally qualified or trained nurse, or by someone under the supervision of such a person.
2SSWP v Slavin [2011] EWCA Civ 1515