How much child benefit?
how much youll get depends on severence pay, savings, investments, etc (your individual circumstances).child benefit is unaffected by income.assuming youll be wanting to look for a new job, youll get jsa, probably contribution based to start with as youre just coming out of a job.if you get working tax this will stop, although you will get a lump sum from this – it could take a while to sort out but the inland revenue will write to you about it anyway.child tax will go up, and youll be eligible for housing and council tax benefit (or the equivelent payment for your mortgage if you have one).your childcare payments will stop as well, so this needs to be sorted.if you live in england your local sure start centre can give you advise with childcare.your local jobcentre can help you out more.if your child is aged 5 or under you will also qualify for the healthy start scheme – this is worth £3.10 a week (double that amount for a baby under 1).i think maintenance payments are taken into accou
