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Question 1

Do you have a National Insurance number?

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Question 2

Your title

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Question 3

Your last name or family name

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Question 4

Your first name and any middle names

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Question 5

Have you ever been known by any other last names or family names including your maiden name?

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Question 6

Your date of birth

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Question 7

Your address

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Question 8

Have you lived at this address for more than 12 months?

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Question 9

Tell us your last address

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Question 10

Your mobile number or landline if you do not have a mobile

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Question 11

What is your nationality?

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Hint: This is shown on your passport if you have one, for example, British, Irish, French, Polish.

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Question 12

Have you claimed Child Benefit for any children before?

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Question 13

Are you currently entitled to or receiving Child Benefit?

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Question 14

Have you always lived in the UK?

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Question 15

Do you usually live in the UK?

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Question 16

Which country do you usually live in?

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Question 17

Tell us the date you arrived in the UK

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Question 18

Are you subject to immigration control now, or have you been at any time in the last 6 months?

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Question 19

If you've been subject to immigration control in the last 3 months, tell us the date your immigration status was granted

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Question 20

What is your employment status?

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Question 21

Do you work in another country or receive benefits from another country, or have you at any time in the last 3 months?

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Question 22

Are you a member of HM Forces or a civil servant working abroad?

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Question 23

What is your marital or civil partnership status?

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Question 24

Your partner's full name

ID: 11

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Question 25

Your partner's date of birth

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Question 26

Your partner's National Insurance number

ID: 13

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Question 27

Your partner's nationality

ID: 14

Hint: This is shown on their passport if they have one, for example British, Irish, French, Polish.

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Question 28

What is your partner's employment status?

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Question 29

Is your partner a member of HM Forces or a civil servant working abroad?

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Question 30

Does your partner now, or have they at any time in the last 3 months, worked in another country or received benefit from another country?

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Question 31

Is your partner entitled to Child Benefit now or are they waiting to hear if they can get Child Benefit?

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Question 32

What is the full name of the eldest child your partner is entitled to Child Benefit for?

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Question 33

Child's date of birth

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Question 34

How many children are you claiming for on this form?

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Question 35

How many original birth certificates, adoption certificates, passports or travel documents are you sending us? If you do not send original documents a decision on your claim may be delayed.

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Question 36

Child's full name including last or family name

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Question 37

Is this child male or female?

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Question 38

Child's date of birth

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Question 39

Has this child's birth been registered in England, Wales or Scotland?

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Question 40

Has this child ever been known by any other name?

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Question 41

Has the name been changed by deed poll?

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Question 42

Is this child your:

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Question 43

Have you or anyone else ever claimed Child Benefit for this child? Read page 4 of the CH2 Notes.

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Question 44

What is the name and address of the person who claimed Child Benefit for this child?

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Question 45

Does this child live with you in the UK?

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Question 46

Has this child lived with anyone else at a different address to you in the last 12 months?

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Question 47

What date did the child come to live with you?

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Question 48

Are you adopting or planning to adopt this child through a local authority?

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Question 49

Child's full name including last or family name As shown on their birth or adoption certificate

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Hint: Child's last name, Child's first name, Child's middle names

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Question 50

Is this child male or female?

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Question 51

Child's date of birth

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Question 52

Has this child's birth been registered in England, Wales or Scotland?

ID: 52

Hint: No If No, send the documents as shown on page 4 of this form - 'Documents we need', Yes If Yes, tell us the reference numbers from the bottom left hand corner of their birth certificate - read page 4 of the CH2 Notes

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Question 53

Has this child been known by any other names?

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Hint: No Yes If Yes, tell us the other name

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Question 54

Has the name been changed by deed poll?

ID: 54

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Question 55

Is this child: Read page 4 of the CH2 Notes

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Question 56

Have you or anyone else ever claimed Child Benefit for this child? Read page 4 of the CH2 Notes.

ID: 56

Hint: No If No go to question 58, Yes If Yes go to question 57

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Question 57

What is the name and address of the person who claimed Child Benefit for this child?

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Question 58

Does this child live with you in the UK? Read page 4 of the CH2 Notes.

ID: 58

Hint: No If No, tell us the name and address of the person they live with, Yes If Yes go to question 59

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Question 59

Has this child lived with anyone else at a different address to you in the last 12 months? Read page 4 of the CH2 Notes.

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Question 60

What date did the child come to live with you?

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Question 61

Are you adopting or planning to adopt this child through a local authority?

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Hint: No Yes If you want to claim for any more children, go to page 7 of the CH2 Notes and fill in the 'Additional children' form

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Question 62

Do you want to be paid Child Benefit?

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Hint: Only answer this question if either you or your partner have an individual income of more than £60,000 a year.

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Question 63

How you want to be paid

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Question 64

To get Child Benefit paid every week tick all boxes which apply to you or your partner

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Question 65

Do you already get Child Benefit?

ID: 4

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Question 66

Bank details

ID: 5

Hint: Tell us the account details where you want us to pay your Child Benefit into. The account must be in your name, or in the name of your partner if you are part of a couple. We use partner to mean: • a person you are married to or a person you live with as if you are married to them, or • a civil partner or a person you live with as if you are civil partners

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Question 67

Name of the bank or building society

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Question 68

The branch sort code. Read page 5 of the CH2 Notes.

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Question 69

The account number. Read page 5 of the CH2 Notes.

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Question 70

If the account is with a building society, tell us the roll or reference number if you have it. Read page 5 of the CH2 Notes.

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Question 71

If you do not have an account that we can pay into, put an 'X' in this box

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