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What can i claim
Hi all, Me and my wife are hopefully going to be trying for our first child soon and was wondering which benefits we would be able to claim. I have tried to look on different sites but its all very complicated and so many scenarios! I know we could claim Child Benefit but unsure what else. When the baby arrives she would…
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Delay in telling HMRC about Ofsted status...
Our nanny has finally got Ofsted registration so we can pay her using Tax Free Childcare (not her fault it has taken since May 2018- Ofstead have been SO slow). But, it turns out there is a delay in Ofsted telling HMRC about her Ofstead registration, and until they have done that, HMRC won't let her register as a childcare…
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CSA Help with foreign income and Child support law-does anyone know...
Hi all, I am stumped and don't think I would find it if it was waving at me. Does anyone know where to find the legislation in the Child Support Act or Regulations that state a NRP's income can only be used by the CSA if it is taxable? Or that the NRP should be employed/self employed in UK and subject to UK tax laws for…
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Help needed with liability orders and enforcement...does anyone know...
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum but not new to the csa-unfortunately. I have a few questions to fact check, that's if anyone knows the answers and in return I will see if I can help anyone from my own knowledge of the csa. Am I correct in thinking that a liability order granted for the csa, whether it be in 2001 or…
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CSA and University
Hi folks My child has now started University. I've read that Child Benefit should stop at this point and that this will stop the CSA payments automatically. Does this work for older cases? In my experience of dealing with the CSA in its many guises nothing ever works as it should. I've not had any correspondence in a…
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Ex won't accept old sca arrears in full
Hi I'm new to this so bare with me, to cut a long story short, I'm on the new Cms paying direct to the mother of my child, and got a letter to say I had arrears of 1200, iv offered to pay the balance in full and she would rather have the extra every month, can she do this. I'd rather pay the balance outstanding in one go…
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Pension contributions and CMS
Hi, do any NRP on here pay pension contributions via salary sacrifice? And is your pension contribution taken into account when the CMS calculate the payment to the PWC? I'm getting contradictory advice including from the CMS. I used to pay my pension by salary sacrifice but when my case transfered from the CSA to CMS…
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Me and Wife are working. Do we get 30 hours child care?
Hi all I am in full-time employment with a salary of £50K. My wife is working 24 hours a week at a restaurant on a minimum wage. Do we get 30 hours a week childcare for our daughter who will be 3 years old in November? Thank you.
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Tax free childcare help!
Hi, new to all this, found out im entitled to tax free childcare (after a year of trying to pay it all my self) I'm a little confused though. I paid my bill via the gov website £376... I got £95 paid in by govement does this mean the nursery will get paid £470? Should i have worked out what i needed to pay in so that the…
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Moving ON to Contribution Based ESA
My partner currently on income-related ESA as she suffers from a chronic illness and is unable to work. We'd like to move in together but as soon as we do she will lose her ESA as my income will be taken into account. It would be very difficult to support her on my wage alone and if we were to add children into the…
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Maintenance/Childcare/Mediation
Hi everyone - would welcome some advice and guidance on an issue that keeps cropping up. I divorced my ex-wife in 2016 and we have 3 kids. We agreed to split the assets from the house sale 50/50 and she agreed she wanted the kids weekly and I would have them weekends so she could work. I also agreed to start paying…
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Calculating Maintenance Advice
I've been paying a family based arrangement every month to my ex partner ever since the birth of my 11 year old daughter. To calculate it we used the Child Maintenance Calculator found on the Government website. I now have a new partner, we are still together and back in April she gave birth to another girl, so now I have…
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REMO- New Zealand
Hi, does anybody have experience dealing with the New Zealand csa? An order was made in this country for £400 per month to be paid and was sent to the nz courts. When they finally took him to court the judge decided to reduce it to just £40 a month 😳 In the last 7 years I’ve received 2 payments of approx £200, the last…
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CSA arguing there own policies?
I'm a new poster but desperately need help. My DH has two children from a previous relationship, DD who he has no contact with who lives abroad and DS who he has on alterative weekends as well as his ex's other child who he brought up. We travel 120 miles every other weekend to pick up the kids and then take them home,…
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Csa mistake help needed
Hi Dont know if i am doing this right not very good with this stuff but here goes. I have allways paid csa and i beleave that there should be something in place but i am now having a very big problem with the old csa. I have never had any arears up until last year when i started getting letters saying i owed £1500 in…
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Ex refusing maintenance.
Hi all, Me and my ex separated in january but have been living together since then, we own the property and we are both on the mortgage. Things have become very difficult between us so for the children's sake (and my own) I have chosen to move out and rent privately as he refused to move out (plus it's a large 4 bed house…
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CSA arrears
hi everyone, I don't post often so please bare with me ... I have always paid CSA via standing order and have always paid the amount that CSA declared that I should pay. I have now received a letter saying that I owe £3260 in arrears. I have phoned CSA to find out what's going on and have been told that my payments…
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Maintenance what does it cover
Help needed.... I would like to know what is actually covered by my maintenance payments.. I have two girls one is 13 and 12, currently I don't actually get to take my eldest as she refuses to spend any time with me but she will talk to me but only in her home with her mother there, occasionally I get to take out my…
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Backdating Private Maintenance Agreement
Hi there, am very new to this so apologies if my questions have been covered previously. My partner has a 5 year old child with his ex wife who he has not had any contact with since July 2014 as his ex blocked access when he left the relationship as a result of her domestic violence towards him. From the month he left he…
