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Tax free childcare & 15 hours free whilst on SSP.
Seeking advice on claiming tax free childcare/free hours whilst on sick leave. Spoken to different people at HMRC and given different answers! Earlier in the year (Jan-Feb24) I was eligible for tax free childcare due to working 16 hours per week at above minimum wage. However I fell pregnant with (my second child, 1st…
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Stopping my child maintenance payments
My youngest son is 18 soon, 20,09,24. He as been working on an apprenticeship but as been dismissed. His mum says I have to start payments again. Is this true?
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Child Maintenance - other party hiding real income help
Hi, My child Maintenance Calculation for the 2 children I have is tiny. My ex has to pay less than £200 a month. They live with me 75% of the time. He leads a lavish lifestyle in a big detached house (rental) a fancy car, holidays, etc. The calculation is based purely on "unearned income" of less than £500 a week. He…
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Financial Order - D81
I am just skimming through the D81 form and need some advice about declaring savings and debt. We have filed for divorce (not yet final) ... we have both agreed to split everything 50/50, I am guessing the final decision will be made by the courts whether or not that is fair when they look at the D81 form and both our…
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Child support where child now lives in Australia
Hi, my son's mother took my son to live in Australia when he was 11 in 2005. We agreed at this point that I would stop paying child maintenance. My son is now 30. I received a letter from the Australian government about 7 years ago saying that I owed the government 30,000 dollars. My son's mother knew nothing about this,…
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Over 16 maintenance still in education on -line due to “ADHD” (allegedly)
My son has turned 16 and my ex says I must continue paying maintenance as he is doing English and maths on line as he has “ADHD”. Tbh seems like his normal teen behaviour has been made to seem worse so my ex can continue claiming benefits for him. Whilst sometimes a handful I have never believed he has ADHD and have plenty…
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"Tertiary Education" in a Financial Final Order causing confusion
Hello there, My ex husband and I have a Final Financial Order which was agreed by the court in 2013. Part of the Order states that my ex husband must make payments to me "for the benefit of the child of the family (child's name here) DOB (here) until he shall attain the age of 18 years, or cease full time tertiary…
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child maintenance payments - child turning 18
hi i pay child maintenance to my ex for my 17 year old son under a mutual arrangements (no authorities involved). He is in full time education (college A levels) and turns 18 soon. My question is when he turns 18 can I pay maintenance to him directly rather than to his mum? Does anything change if/when he goes to…
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Child Maintenance Payments
Is child maintenance payments based only on where they sleep? Me and the ex wife are currently sharing the family home until she buys me out. We do one week on and one week off sleeping here with them. I go halves on everything that involves the children and I pay for everything for them on my weeks, food etc. I still pay…
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Newly self employed - CMS wont recognise any earnings
Hi, I am hoping someone can help. My ex was unemployed claiming benefits for a couple of years after leaving a full time job. I have the kids full time, and work full time myself. He has them on the agreed dates with no issues. In March he started working as a taxi driver and is self employed via a taxi company. He told me…
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CMS payment - Rental Income,
I recently had my name added to my parents property, there is rental income and last year I declared all the income under my name and not my parents, I recently got a letter or notice of variation from CMS where my ex wife has asked them for further info on income and assets I wanted to know if I will be liable to pay…
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Help needed finding good lawyer to contest CSA settlement
Hi everyone, I have a friend who has been contacted by the CSA basically they are looking for more money. The CSA have, IMO cocked up the amounts charged and have not taken into account additional payments made to his former wife so i would like any advice on a good, preferably London based, laywers who can handle this for…
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childcare vouchers
if you've ended up with an excess of childcare voucher - can you get this refunded?
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Annual review confusion- am I being stupid?
Background is. Ex hb has historically earned between £500-550 per week in income and has paid child support based on this amount via a DEO. As far as I know the annual review is calculated at the recorded weekly earning for the previous financial year. At my annual review for 2024 his payments were recalculated based his…
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Child Maintenance Payments
I’m bamboozled and keep finding conflicting information so hoping someone can confirm my question(s). I have an 18 year old son that is about to leave College and begin studying at University in September. He will no longer be living at home with Mum. I make my payment on the 27th of each month. Do I need to continue…
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Tax Free Childcare + 15 hours free
Hello I currently earning over £100k a year. I am putting a % away into a pension via my employer - a company pension plan by aviva (a% my contributions plus 3% my employers contributions.) It is a salary sacrifice arrangement ie not the net relief at source arrangement. I am then putting some money away per month into a…
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How long for tax free child account approval
Hi, I’ve applied for tax free child care and 15h free on gov website. I never had a child’s tax account before. It’s been 2 weeks and it still hasn’t been approved. Does anyone know how long it takes? also, how do they check the annual salary? Is it based on last year? I’ve never applied because I earned over 100k and…
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25% bonkers ruling
Anyone else get done over every year by this? It's not the ruling itself, it's that they only apply it when it suits them. So annual review should be the latest figure they have from HMRC. Every year they give me the wrong calculation as they don't include the P11D figure. Every year I tell them that they should and every…
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Can I receive Child Maintenance for university student
My daughter is about to start her final year of A-levels and is planning on going to a local university so she can live at home (she needs extra support she is autistic). She may need to do a foundation year at university before starting her degree. As I understand it child maintenance is not paid for students studying for…
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Voluntary Child Maintenance for a School Leaver
Not sure this is the right place to ask this question but if not and someone could point me in the right direction it would help. My son has been separated from his ex partner for 15 years and has been paying an agreed voluntary maintenance for that length of time. My grandson was 16 in November 2023, hasn't been to school…
