PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Welfare Tax Credits: Carers (23 November 2018)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 26 October to Question 180796 on Carers: Welfare Tax Credits, when the Government plans to bring forward legislative proposals to change the tax credit sequencing rules that are applied to non-parental carers.

Asked by:
Karin Smyth (Labour)

The government recognises the immense value of the care provided by non-parental carers and adoptive parents. It is for this reason that we are ensuring that they receive support irrespective of the order in which these children enter their household. Regulations to extend support in Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit were laid in Parliament on 5 November 2018 and came into force on 28 November 2018. The regulations can be viewed here:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1130/made

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1129/made

Answered by:
Elizabeth Truss (Conservative)
3 December 2018