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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…
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Child Benefit help please
My partner has received a tax statement suggesting a child benefit charge £3374 for 23-24 tax year!!, we do not exceed £60,000 per year (his wage went up to £59 in August 2023) and we only receive c£1900 amount in child benefit how can this be right? We are now stressed out and can't speak to them until Monday.
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Slander by my school?
Dear all, I went last month for a three days holidays with my wife and my son who has been a bit depressed over the last few months, for reasons that are not relevant. We took these holidays in school time and we lied to the school saying that he was sick. Most of the class went to the school trip and he was not going to…
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Balancing Work with Childcare
Hi All, I know there is no right or wrong answer to this but I am interested in hearing from parents who work and have children in childcare/nursery. My partner and I both work fulltime, at the moment our two kids are in childcare which runs from 07:30-18:00 and whilst collections can be a stretch it works. However, our…
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Court issued charging order against my ex for child maintenance but unsure about registering
Sorry if this is the wrong thread. After 7 years I have a final charging order against my ex's house as no maintenance paid for 7 years. The Judge implied as a Court hearing (not money claim) in the family court it is agreed and therefore I think I can apply using an AN1 form for an agreed notice but the guiidance is very…
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CSA and repayments/ineligibility
After a year during which my son was primarily living with me, but then changed to primarily living with the other parent, I was contacted by child benefit who said they’d decided the college course he was on wasn’t eligible for CB so I needed to backpay the amount to them. I informed CSA (as I’d claimed CSA for part of it…
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CSA or old court system...
I know in England and Wales the CSA may be the only support collection on offer (dont know about Scotland)but we were first with the court system, late/missed payments ended up in magistrates and a possible custodial term meant arrears magically got paid... Forcibly switched to the CSA and the AP ran up £6000 arrears which…
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Burden of proof
Hi I'm confused with where I stand regarding maintenance for my son. He is 18 this year and is expected to attend university. I do not know which one as I have been completely cut off by the mother and her family (long and painful story!). I have spoken with CMS, who manage the case, who have told me that they would not…
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TFC And self assessment
Hi all, my wife is about to complete her first SA and was just wondering if the eligibility threshold is based on ‘turnover’ on which we would be eligible or ‘profit’ whereby which we would be ineligible. If the latter is there any scope to understate the expenses and just absorb them as personal expenses so that we are…
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Liable for Child Maintenance after child has left receiving parent's care
I was paying Child Maintenance for my daughter, aged 18 up to the point she left school at the end of July 2023. This was paid direct to the mother, but managed through and ongoing CMS claim. I'm aware that the daughter left her mother's care at the start of August and hasn't returned. She initially went to stay with her…
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Child Benefit
Hi - i will stop getting child benefit 31 August, as my child is going into advanced education. For the period April to August - how would my salary be calculated to establis if earnings over £50k?