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Self-assessment: How much Child Benefit to declare?
I will need to pay some of the High Income Child Benefit charge on my tax return. It is for a partial year, how much am I supposed to declare that I received/was entitled to etc "Enter the total amount of Child Benefit you and your partner were entitled to receive for the year to 5th April 2018" 17/7/17 - 5/4/18 - CB tax…
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Paying back Child Benfit
My husband recently got his Annual Tax Summary for 2017-2018. He has now exceeded the £50000 maximum earnings to get full Child benefit for both our children. He has only exceeded it by £2000 and I have no income as I am recovering from cancer. I now need to pay some benefit back I think? How do I work out how much to pay…
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Historic debt
Hi I received a letter this morning from CSA telling me that money owing to me had been written off as it was not possible to recover the debt. My daughter is now an adult but when she was younger I had to take out loans etc to compensate for not getting any child support. I am therefore much poorer now in my retirement…
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Csa arrears while out of work
Hi all Does anyone know where I can get help with this. So I have been paying off Csa arrears of 20k at £310 a month deduction of earnings, I now owe around 9k however I have just received a statement showing what money I should of been paying each week. My issue is that between 2009 and 2014 I was unemployed and was part…
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CSM and fraud investigation
I have been fighting since 2016 to get child support off my child’s “father” he has been working and claiming (he has custody of another child from a previous relationship) and every time I’ve asked CSM to do a benefit check, they say they have and he isn’t getting anything! Anyway, it would seem that NOT ONE OF THEM HAVE…
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£1 million payout, how will it affect CMS payment
Hi. First time posting. I left my ex 3 years ago & am almost at the end of our divorce. We have 4 kids who reside with me & spend 2 nights with him a month (their choice). A week after we separated he had an accident & hasn't worked since. He receives disability benefit so only pays £30 a month as CMS dictates. Just been…
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Maternity allowance
Hi all, my wife left her previous job before finishing her 1 year maternity leave in anticipation of us moving to a different area. She was waiting until we moved to find a new job but subsequently fell pregnant and with the move being very prolonged she is now nearly 30 weeks pregnant and we have only just got settled in…
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Arrears written off
I have just had a letter from the CMS that they have written off debt owed to me. Are they able to do this without first consulting me to find out my wishes? As far as I'm concerned this is owed to me and not them so any choice made to write off the debt should be mine and not theirs. What do you think? Is there anything I…
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30 hours childcare eligibility
I’d like to start by saying that I know we are very lucky to be in the position we are before I get any negative comments. I am trying to understand what income is included when applying for 30 hours childcare. I know any pension contributions are NOT included. Due to the nature of my husbands job however he receives a car…
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CMS Allege Historical Arrears.
My daughter is almost twenty-one and I have received a letter from the CMS that I owe £2400 in arrears. I was with the CSA from 2000 to around 2012/13 and, as I worked in the public sector, they calculated the amount to pay and then deducted it at source i.e. they took it from my pay and I got what was left. Around 2012/13…
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Received a Child Maintenance calculation of zero
I got a letter from the Child Maintenance Service today to say my ex had started working and therefore they are recalculating the maintenance amount. Strangely though it was recalculated to zero (from being zero previously as ex was on benefits). Figures are this: 130p/w income, no factors to affect the income, calculated…
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Want a private arrangement but NRP won't agree
Hi All, I'm looking for advice on what to do. NRP & I have been divorced for 3 years. 3 x children, 8, 10 & 12, eldest is disabled. He's spent 2 years ignoring the CMS & we're at the liability order stage (hearing is in Jan). He earns a good wage via a Ltd company. Assessment is based on his public accounts & comes in at…
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Want a private arrangement but NRP won't agree
Hi All, I'm looking for advice on what to do. NRP & I have been divorced for 3 years. 3 x children, 8, 10 & 12, eldest is disabled. He's spent 2 years ignoring the CMS & we're at the liability order stage (hearing is in Jan). He earns a good wage via a Ltd company. Assessment is based on his public accounts & comes in at…
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Advice need with interim order lump sum deduction order
Recently had a csa claim again me but in the middle of mediation of shared custody want to get this done before anything and now they have send a letter of of a lump sum deduction order interim order and this time of year have I got the right to appeal and how do I go about it Many thanks
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Child Support & Redundancy
My first post... sorry if its been said before, I've done a quick search couldn't find anything. How does redundancy work as far as child support goes? My ex is likely to get redundancy soon and has informed me that it is likely he would be able to send me child support until he gets another job. The advice i have seen is…
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Child maint payments
Hi all New to this but it's a question been hanging over my head for years and never really found an answer. So my OH has a son who he pays maint for at the level the online csa calculator says. We have the child 3 days a week his ex 3 days a week and my MIL actually picks him up feeds him and takes him back to ex's house…
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CMS trying to claim arrears my child is nearly 26!
Several years ago when the CSA changed, the new CMS wrote to me a couple of times asking me to pay some arrears to my ex husband, as my health was declining and I was unable to cope at that time with my teenage daughter so she went back to live with her Dad, who in fact actually eventually evicted her when he too had had…
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Advice needed
Non resident parent 19 year old daughter paid while working under the old csa. Several periods of unemployment however continued to pay out savings and never claimed benefits. Recent notice for over 4 thousand pounds and doe put in place from child maintenence service who will not tell me what period and how this amount…
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Maternity Allowance and Self Employed/Armed Forces
Hi Guys, Hoping for some help/advice! I am currently expecting my first child. I am self employed and on a low income (averaging £11,500 over 3 years) and my partner is in the Armed Forces. I have been through the Government websites but it seems we don’t qualify for anything other than statutory Maternity Pay. Is there…
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CMS payment change little notice
Just wondering who you can go to for advice outside the circle of CMS that isn't a money grabbing solicitor? I'm not wanting to do it now but looking for advice for the future. My CSA case moved over to CMS September 2017 when I found out that I was 12k in arrears which CSA/CMS admitted it was their fault they never took…
