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Child Support sticky
👶 Here are some Forum threads you might find useful: * CSA acronyms * Child Support useful links * REMO - Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Order 👶 And here's some relevant content from MoneySavingExpert.com: * Child Benefit: a Guide * Help with Childcare Costs: a Guide * 10-minute Benefits Check Calculator * Past news…
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Child maintenance payments
Can anyone tell me the following I have an arrangement where I pay my partner an amount approved by CSA based on my salary, I’m unsure how they can work out my payments based on my salary before tax it’s just ridiculous.My other question is my eldest son is leaving school A levels this year. He is planning a gap year…
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Parents salary CSA
Asking on behalf of someone else, thinking of going through CSA. Do they need to know the paying parents salary? What happens if the parrying parent reduces their hours of work in order to reduce the amount of CSA they pay? Thanks
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Childcare cost help
Currently on maternity leave looking into the help available for childcare when I return to work. Our childcare costs are not expected to be huge thanks to the new help announced last year. Can I ask if we can build a pot of tax free childcare to use in the future? I see you aren’t allowed to claim while on maternity so…
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Child benefit never paid to me
How do I make a claim for child benefit that was never paid to me? CBA refused my claims for Child benefit for all 3 of my children using the excuse that because their father was a US Airman and he got duty free petrol, cigarettes and alcohol, I wasn't entitled to it. I'm English with hundreds of years of generations born…
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15 hours free childcare
Hello and thank you in advance for any help you are able to give. Our son is about to turn 3 and we are excited to get 15 hours free child care. We have been given a form by the nursery and they are after a code. When registering with the Gov.uk website they are asking to provide NI numbers and confirm income. I am just…
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Child maintenance and Mortgage payments. Not Married
I have an issue with my Ex. We spilt up last year and have two Children together 10 and 5. I bought a house in 2017, all in my name. All the money that has gone into the house, mortgage payments and deposit, have been payed by me. She has never worked during that time. Since we split up, I left the home but I’m am still…
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50/50 care and CM
My partner and i split up over 12 months ago now and my son stays with him 4 days on and 4 days off around his work shifts. For the last twelve months we kept our joint bank account open whilst we paid off some joint debts. He now has a new partner and home and the bank account is closed . He doesn’t agree that he should…
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Child benefit credits
My husband claims our child benefit but will now earn over 60k in April. I'm a stay at home wife. If I transfer the child benefit into my name and we carry on claiming child benefit and paying back each tax year, would this still give me the national insurance credits to fill in my gap years until our child turns 12?
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Child Maintenance owed
Would anyone know if I can claim unpaid child maintenance from an ex husbands estate as I have recently found out that he died just over a year ago? (That is if he had anything) I know that he married again and had a child with his 2nd wife.
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Getting a CMS recalculation
My income is normally roughly the same year on year give or take a few hundred. Now this year my income has shot up massively by almost 10k which will drop the next back to normal the next tax year. I work on the railway so had a huge back pay going back almost 2 years and this month they are also going to pay out in…
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Child Maintenance Question
Hi all, I just want to state that this isn't about getting out of paying for my son. My son is everything to me and I'll always ensure he has everything he needs. It's more a matter of principles and recent actions from my ex resulting in me questioning my contributions. Me and my ex agreed I have my son for 3 nights every…
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Maintenance payments from Ex on benefits.
I've just discovered my ex is getting an additional payment from DWP that she had not told me about previously. She gets Universal Credit & PIP and has always insisted that the PIP bears no relevance to the amount she has to pay me. I have now found out that she also gets around £400 a month extra as she gets LCWRA. For…
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Paying Parent has lost job and is now not having to pay. What's next?
Hi My ex, whom I won't bother boring you all with details about as its not needed for my question.... He has lost his job and thus now not having to pay child maintenance. this would be the last 15/16 months of payments as my son turns 17 next month. I have a couple of questions that the CMS are not answering me on. 1) How…
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Variations- Child Maintenance Northern Ireland
CM cannot tell me the exact details for the various variations and suggested I talk to a family lawyer. Exact details not on website either, just bullet points. How the heck can anyone determine any variations if the details are not available to look up? Anyone got these details. They may be slightly or more different than…
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Can maintainance be paid directly to the child when they reach the age of 18?
I pay maintenance for my 2 daughters (age 18 and 19 )who live with there dad they are both still going to college so there for I am required to continue payments till they reach 20 I would like to know if the money can be paid directly to my daughters accounts instead of there dads account
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should my partner contribute to us repaying Child Benefit?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... Over the past few years, I've been adding more and more to my workplace pension to keep my net income under £50,000, so my partner can keep receiving Child Benefit without having to repay any of it. But now I'd need to pay 26% of my salary into my pension, which I feel is too…
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child benefit threshold
I currently pay into my pension with salary sacrifice. I have ensured that this keeps my income below £50k for child benefit purposes. However, a recent pay rise puts me above this. Any changes to my pension contributions wont be effective until 1st April which is obviously no good. I can make a one off pension…
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Remaining under the £100k threshold for child benefits
Hi all, First time poster, long time reader. I'm starting a new job in April and my income will be going up. I want to understand how that will affect tax-free childcare as well as the 15 free hours and whether there's anything I can do to remain eligible. My new role offers £108k base salary, with up to 30% annual bonus…
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2 year old 15 hours childcare support eligibility query
Between my wife and I we currently just rise above the £100k gross earnings limit for the current tax year, however this won't be the case come the new tax year in April 2024 as our earnings will be below that. If we don't apply before March though we will not be able to claim it until the next term.....but in March we…
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From 2024 - How and how much financial support to give our children through university and beyond
Good morning everyone This is the beginning of year 2024. I am not sure how many parents out there in the forum that are battling through cost of living crisis whilst working out how and how much to help our children through university and beyond. I am a single earner of the family. My son is going to university from this…