High Income Child Benefit Charge

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Restart your Child Benefit payments

You can restart your Child Benefit payments if:

To restart your Child Benefit payments, either:

You need a Government Gateway user ID and password to fill in the online form. If you do not have a user ID, you can create one when you fill in the form.

You cannot use the online form if you’re an appointee or authorised agent.

When you’ll start getting payments

After the Child Benefit Office gets your request, it can take up to 21 days before you get your first payment.

The office will write to tell you how much money you’ll get from backdated payments (if any).

Responsibilities after your Child Benefit restarts

You or your partner will have to pay any tax charge on the benefit received from the restart date if your ‘adjusted net income’ is over £50,000.

Use the Child Benefit tax calculator to get an estimate of your adjusted net income and see if you may be affected by the tax charge.

You must report any changes to your family life that affect your Child Benefit.