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Claim declined for Jobseekers Allowance
I have been made redundant and tried to claim contribution based JSA. I have received a letter stating I have not paid or been credited with enough class 1 National Insurance contributions. My national Insurance record shows that I have 36 years of full contributions. I have had no breaks. I don’t understand why the claim…
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Are CMS Annual Reviews being processed currently?
Is anyone aware of what the current situation is with the CMS please? The reason I ask is in normal times (!!) they have commenced, and sent a letter, the process of annual review leading up to our end of August final decision date. I have been online, there are no pending messages currently, and no letter on its way. Have…
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Extra payments
Hello all, I pay regular child maintenance payments to my ex for my 11yo daughter. She is moving up to secondary school. My ex is now asking me for half of the money she spent on my daughters back to school clothes etc. This would be outside of the child maintenance payments. Is this allowed? If I pay child maintenance at…
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Maintenance payer made redundant
I can’t find anywhere that will help with this and CMO won’t take a call. My ex has told me he has been made redundant so will pay me for the next 3 months whilst on garden leave but then will stop paying unless he has a new job. Can he do that and does his redundancy money not come into play? He also lives with his…
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Child maintenance at 19 help
Hi just a bit confused wondering if anyone can help my husband pays for his son each month and we have since he was 2 he is now 19 ( April this year) and he finishes college this month he is considering going back in September as he wants to do his level 3. He has done 3 years at college year 1 was maths and English as he…
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CMS wants to know my wife's income
I have been given another income form to complete online, but it is asking about my wife's income. Do I have to give it? And can my Ex take child support from my wife’s income? As a side note, I would have thought the CMS, part of the DWP already knows my wife's income from her national insurance records. So what is going…
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CMA refusing to acknowledge reduction in pay
My partner has always paid his child maintenance in full on time and is happy to do so, they're his kids, he has no problem with that, however, he was put on furlough on 24th March and as his pay includes 41% shift allowance, that went straight away. His employer topped up his standard pay to 100% (minus the shift…
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CMS
My daughter starts an apprenticeship in september, does this mean i no longer have to pay CMS.
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CSA fines and fees
Hi, I have being paying child support for 4 years without missing any payments. I was contact with a initial letter and also a final reminder on 28th Dec 2019 that my payments had changed and that I had underpaid. Please note I did pay but it was under what the new balance should have been. It was £150 short when i contact…
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Child support
Hi wondering if anyone can help I’ve tried looking but feel the information is a tad confusing so my husband has a child from his first relationship he is 19 and is at college full time so we still pay out money to his mum which is a private arrangements not via the child support etc. Now my stepson has got a full tomw job…
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Receiving parent is a billionaire, I am not..
Greetings Members, I would kindly request your opinion please. I have been paying £200 to my ex after 1 child on a monthly basis for a few years however, now I need to pay £400 due to my new job. Honestly, I cannot afford to pay that much because of personal circumstances. Other than that my ex is a billionaire. Please do…
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Child maintance payments
Please could somebody help, my sons father has moved to Scottland with his eldest son who is 16 ( from a former marriage) His eldest son will be living with his dad full time however will be doing a Scottish apprenticeship, paid for by his father's company he works for in Scottland. I am beining paid minimum child support…
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Child maintenance payments for child in full time education
I have an 18 year old child that I do not see And haven’t seen since 4 years old due to maternal influence. I pay monthly through the CMS. I am aware my ex is advising CMS that my child is still in college but I’m not sure this is true. She is known in the past to be untrustworthy and has lied to the benefits system…
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claiming back overpayment from the csa
I recently contacted the CSA because I had been told that my son was no longer in educaton, and hadn't been in education for some time. I was contacted on 20/6/17 by them, verbally confirming that my obligation to make these payments should of ceased on 3/9/16. I was also given the impression that this case would be handed…
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Tax-Free Childcare
Hi Anyone know what could be the reason / what's going on please? Thanks, Phil
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Changes to child maintenance?
My daughter has been receiving child maintenance from her ex husband. After 2 years he has just been awarded some unsupervised contact. It starts at 1 night every 3 weeks and then goes up to 2 nights every other weekend in October. Until October the amount of contact doesn't change the CM payments, but after October it…
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Child support money from ex
My ex is saying that I do not spend my child support money on the kids, all because I asked him if he could go halves with some extra clothes. The kids are 12 & 14. He pays £450 monthly. I currently have to fork out over £1000 for rent (recently moved out of the family home because he got a divorce with me and didnt want…
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CSA now Child Maintenance Service payment Issue
Hi all again, I have two children who are now 17 & 9 and have now got their own jobs. I had been paying CSA until 2011 when i was medically retired from my job and have been unable to work since. I had a phone call from which was then the CSA in 2016 saying that I owe maintenance from 2013 to 2016 I was not claiming any…
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Using 30 hours @ private nursery & paying for school Nursery?
Has anyone ever used their full 30 hours at private nursery & just paid for school nursery, with the pre school having none of our funded hours? Would they even consider this?! Context being it now looks like working from home is going to be a long term thing even if it’s not every day & current private nursery if near…
