The terminal date
If your child leaves full-time non-advanced education (see
here) or approved training before reaching 20, s/he continues to count as a qualifying young person until either:
1Reg 7 CB Regs•the ‘terminal date’ (see below); or
•her/his 20th birthday, if this falls before the terminal date.
The general rule means that unless s/he continues to count as a qualifying young person on another ground or is returning to sit an exam (see below), you stop receiving child benefit for her/him on that date.
The terminal date
Your child’s ‘terminal date’ is the first of the following dates that falls after the date her/his full-time non-advanced education or approved training finishes:
– the last day in February;
– the last day in May;
– the last day in August;
– the last day in November.
A child who returns to sit an external examination in connection with her/his course of relevant education is treated as still being in relevant education until the date of the last exam.
2Reg 7(2) case 2.1 CB Regs