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Newborn
My daughter has just had a baby but cannot register him yet, how will she be able to claim child benefit
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Full time student - is it true I have to pay MORE for childcare when I'm not earning anything??
I'm about to begin a one year non-salaried PGCE as a mature student (aged 41). We have a two year old who will be eligible for free childcare in January 2021. Student finance have said I can't get any childcare support as my husband's earnings are over the bracket (he is by no means high-earner). I have worked my whole…
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Child Maintenance
Hi everyone, to give you a bit of back story I split with my ex in January 2020. The house we were renting together is £450 a month and with me being 22, and my ex being 23 we needed a guarantor so my parents opted to help out however the year contract on the tenancy ends in December 2020. My ex gets the full £450 a month…
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Tax Free Childcare eligibility if partner now a full time student with bursary
Can anyone confirm if my family will still be entitled to Tax Free Childcare if I am working, but my previously full time working husband is now a full time student for 1 year in receipt of a monthly bursary whilst he retrains? I can't find clear guidance from the Government on this. My husband is employed by the company…
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Au Pair & Tax Free Childcare
I am thinking of getting an Au Pair. Can I set her up / she set herself up, so I can pay her through my Tax Free Childcare account? I am a full-time working, single parent and desperately need the childcare flexibility an Au Pair can bring but, financially, a 20% discount would be a lifesaver. If this is possible, How…
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CSA and second casual job
I’ve been paying £350 consistently for almost 4 years And never once missed a payment. I even had to take a second job to survive and I’ve previously worked with step change to arrange my financial hardship. My oldest daughter is almost 19 and no longer in college and I helped her set up universal credit (her entitlement)…
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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…
