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Child Maintainance no longer affects Income Support??
lauren_1
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I just got a letter and i really hope its not a april fools joke, but after april 12th 2010 i will get the full £65.45 a week instead of £11.68 every fortnight!
Im so pleased.
Im so pleased.
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It's correct. From the 12th April, child support payments are disregarded in full, not just the first £20 as it currently is.
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I was told at the job centre yesterday that this also applies for JSA (after 12th April). I can't see anything online which mentions this. Is it true?
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MrsBartolozzi wrote: »I was told at the job centre yesterday that this also applies for JSA (after 12th April). I can't see anything online which mentions this. Is it true?
Can't understand why people think it's not true. I really don't think the DWP partake in any form of jokes.In addition, from April 2010, child maintenance will be fully disregarded when calculating all out-of-work benefits. This will allow parents with the main day-to-day care to keep every penny of their child maintenance payments, where maintenance is paid.
http://www.childmaintenance.org/en/childsupport/benefits.html*SIGH*
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Thanks DX2, I didn't mean that I expected it to be a joke or something. The woman I spoke to yesterday managed to make several mistakes when passing my details onto someone else so she could easily have mixed up with what I could apply for. I thought maybe she'd assumed I'd apply for IS. That and the fact that when I googled I didn't see JSA mentioned explicitly, that's why I asked.
Is there some kind of cuttoff point eg if maintenance is £100 per week for instance?
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I haven't come across any cut off point, I know it sounds too good to be true!MrsBartolozzi wrote: »Is there some kind of cuttoff point eg if maintenance is £100 per week for instance?*SIGH*0 -
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maybe the father is on jsa etc so only gets assesed at £50
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Originally Posted by lauren_1
It does sound too good to be true, jumping for £5 odd a week to full rate £65 odd is a very large amount for me, Thats why I questioned it, given the date.
Why did you only get a fiver a week? It was £10 pw then it went to £20 per week without it affecting your IS.
I get £5 Income support a week because its reduced by my CM.0
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