Income-related employment and support allowance

There are no amounts in employment and support allowance (ESA) for dependent children and, therefore, your ESA is not normally affected if your child is away at school. The exception is if you are entitled to CA and this stops. The carer premium (part of your income-related ESA applicable amount) stops eight weeks after your entitlement to CA ends.1Sch 4 para 8(2) ESA Regs

If you get CA again (see here), the carer premium should start again and continue while you are getting CA, and for eight weeks after it stops again.

 

1     Sch 4 para 8(2) ESA Regs »