Answers · Benefit
Who can get Guardian’s Allowance?
A weekly payment on top of Child Benefit if you are bringing up a child whose parents have died. It is a public fund. One parent’s death can be enough in some cases. Confirm the rule.
- Paid by HM Revenue and Customs.
- The catalogue looks for: You are bringing up someone else’s child.
- The catalogue looks for: A parent has died.
- The catalogue looks for: Child Benefit is in payment or being claimed.
- This is not a decision. The department or the council decides.
Indicative only. Not advice. Confirm it on the official page before you rely on it.