Other benefits

Best Start grant

You can qualify for a Best Start grant pregnancy and baby payment if a child aged under 12 months is placed with you for adoption, and you satisfy the other conditions of entitlement (see here). You must claim before the child is one year old.1Sch 2 EYA(BSG)(S) Regs The payment is £600, or £300 if you have another child under 16 in your household.2Sch 2 EYA(BSG)(S) Regs If an older child is placed with you for adoption, you may be entitled to a Best Start grant early learning payment or school-age payment (see here and here). You can get a Best Start grant even if someone else (eg, the birth mother) has already received the Best Start grant for the child.3Sch 2, 3 and 4 EYA(BSG)(S) Regs

 

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