What you're entitled to if you receive a foster care allowance, orphan's benefit or unsupported child's benefit, for one or more children
What it is
Work and Income provides help and pays a foster care allowance, orphan's or unsupported child's benefit to caregivers who are raising someone else's child.
- The foster care allowance helps caregivers to meet the reasonable costs of children in foster care.
- The orphan's benefit helps a person who raises someone else's child to support the child when their parents:
- have died or can't be found, or
- can't look after their child because they have a long-term illness or incapacity.
- The unsupported child's benefit helps a person who raises someone else's child to support the child when their parents can't support them because of a family breakdown.
What you're entitled to
If you receive a foster care allowance, orphan's benefit or unsupported child's benefit, for one or more children, and this is the only benefit you receive from Work and Income, you may be entitled to in-work tax credit (previously called in-work payment). You are not entitled to any other Working for Families Tax Credits for these children.
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Date published: 09 Mar 2007
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