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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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Free Childcare
Please can someone confrim correct my understanding of this system. I earn £105k per year and my wife earns £41k. Our child has just turned 12 months and is at child minders. Its understood that from September 1 years olds can receive 15 hours of free childcare? Its my understanding that noe is available prior to this? As…
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Child maintenance payments query on gross income and self-employment
My son currently has a non-CSA agreement to pay child support directly to his ex-partner. He has used the calculator to see what he should be paying based on his gross income. If he were to go through the CSA would any allowance be made for weeks where he needs the self-employed equivalent of annual leave, as obviously he…
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Tax free childcare account rollover
Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before. For the tax free childcare account I'm aware it's a maximum government contribution of £500 every 3 months but wanted to know if we can use this account like a savings account e.g. opening an account soon after our child is born and not actually using the money we fund it with…
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Child Support
I have been reviewing the latest info on child support and wanted to check that my understanding is correct. My wife and I both work full time and our only child has just turned one. I earn £105k basic salary and my wife earns £40k. My understanding is that because I earn over the £60k threshold we are not entitled to…
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Childcare assistance if one parent earns >£100k
Hi guys, just want to check I'm reading the guidelines correctly, would be very grateful if someone could confirm (doing a bit of financial planning, we have our first baby coming next month and are looking for childcare from Jan 2025 when the baby will be ~9 months) If one parent is earning <£100k but the other earns…
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Child maintenance query
Hi there My children stay with me for 6 nights across a 2 week period (156 nights per year). They are with my ex for the remaining time and I pay her child maintenance accordingly. It's an arrangement between us, we've never involved the CMS, but the amount I pay was worked out using their calculator. I regularly get asked…
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Child Benefit
I stop getting child benefit after August, as my child goes into advance education. I have been putting additional amounts into my pension to reduce my adjusted income to just under £50k. Will my total earnings for this 2024-25 year still matter, as i will only get 5 months of child benefit i.e. if i exceed the £50k…
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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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Pay back 2023/2024
Been victim of the high income child benefit tax since 2015. 23/24 is the first year I’ve stepped over the £60k mark. Although the earnings cap has finally been raised as inflation has every year for next financial year, does this mean that all next years benefit I will receive will be basically to pay all last years back?
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‘15 hours’ free childcare, is it legal…
Is it legal for nurseries to charge a higher day rate to families using 15hours free than to those not using it? We have new fees coming into force in just a couple of weeks, and they’ve released a structure which charges more per day for those using 15 or 30 hours government funding then for those on “standard pricing”.…
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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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What to do when divorced parents can't agree on sharing child-related universal credit?
I assume the legal/court order stage starts with speaking to a sollicitor but I'm asking here about the stage before that, mediation. How does it work? Does the government provide it? Is it free?
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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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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 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…