Find out if your child is eligible

Your child is eligible for a Child Trust Fund (CTF)account as long as:

your child was born on or after 1 September 2002
your child lives in the UK
you receive Child Benefit for your child and
your child is not subject to immigration control.

Children born between 1 September 2002 and 5 April 2005 had to be living in the UK on or after 6 April 2005 to be entitled to the CTF.

There are of course some specific cases which these rules do not necessarily cover, where parents or children are living outside the UK, or for non-UK citizens:

Children of Ministry of Defence families and other UK Crown servants

Children who are subject to immigration restrictions

Children who live outside the UK who get UK Child Benefit

Children living in the UK with Child Benefit paid by another EU country

Children who left the UK before the CTF was launched

Children with CTF accounts who move away from the UK

Parent is from the UK but living or working abroad

EU citizens living in the UK

What you can do if your child is not eligible

Your child is eligible. What next?

Special arrangements for looked after children

Death of a child