Is one month reasonable?

15 February 2011

Issue: 4292 / Categories: Forum & Feedback , Income Tax

'I was amused... actually, I was grossly offended'

Practitioners may very probably have not bothered looking at the page on HMRC’s website ‘Applying for a National Insurance number for a looked after child’ as it relates to the need for social workers to apply for National Insurance numbers for children in their care.

Presumably no one receives child benefit for them and so the automatic issue at age 16 breaks down.

First and not for the first time when dealing with Newcastle one (that is the social worker) must write a letter of application in order to be sent an application form (yes really!).

Towards the foot of HMRC’s notes they state that ‘you must return form CA3530 to HMRC within one of month [sic] of receiving it. If you don’t you’ll have to apply for the [application] form again’.

I was amused – actually ...

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