Dependent children
When assessing household income, the following count as a ‘dependent child’:
1 guidance s2.18•a child under 16 (or older if they are in approved education or training) whom a client is entitled to claim child benefit for;
•a child under 16 for whom a client has shared caring responsibilities for but does not reside in their home on a full-time basis.
A dependent child does not include young adults in the household who have their own means of support. This includes, for example, a non-dependant who has been denied access to certain state benefits through a sanction or any other restriction resulting from their own actions.