Child support

Hi, hoping someone can help here regarding 30hrs free childcare. I understand you need to earn £120 per week in order to qualify but what if you only work term time. Is £120 a week over a 44 week working period sufficient to qualify? I’m concerned the £120 per week mminimum may in reality mean you need to earn £6240 over…

Hi there, Can anyone tell me if the new child maintenance service take into account mileage? My children's dad has told me today that he can't afford £25 a week for our 13yr old (he earns £300 a week) cause he has to travel 128 miles there and back once a month, and claims that the child maintenance service has said he can…

hi there, I have just entered into an appeal with the CMS regarding my ex partner giving false info about his circumstances. can anyone on hear tell me how the process works. has anyone here appealed? has anyone won an appeal or lost an appeal? thanks in advance for any replies.

So my partner is the paying parent and we have been trying to get his case resolved with the CMS now since 2014. He has called and written several times but have received nothing back from them at all. Can anyone advise what the next step is above the CMS? Their complaints procedure says that you have to wait for their…

Hi All, I know its been in the news about issues with the .gov website for reconfirming your 30 free hours of childcare. I had to call them on Monday as it wouldn't allow me to reconfirm because I use childcare vouchers. Anyway a helpfull lady on the end of the phone talked me through it and we got it sorted easily. I got…

Hi. Does anyone know what happens if somone claims the 30 free hours, but there income exceeds £100,00 (ie: they receive an unexpected bonus). Thanks

I need to know if the £100000 limit is per calendar year,financial year or school year. I can’t find this confirmed anywhere. Thank you

I need help and advice and I don't know who to turn to. My mother has once again put in a claim for my dad to pay her £600 a month for the one out of three children they have together. My mother is married to a considerably wealthy man who owns his own business, they live in a big !!!! off 6 bedroomed house and yet she…

Hi all, I am moving jobs where my old job had childcare vouchers through EdenRed but the new job does not support childcare vouchers. I left my old job on the 19th and started the new one on the 20th of December. I've applied for the tax free child-care, but how does it work if you've already spent some of the year with…

Hi Just paid my first ever tax free childcare payment following a transfer from Childcare vouchers. One question i had was that i understood the maximum entitlement per child was £500 per quarter (maybe that isnt correct), i.e £2k PA per child. Following my first payment i notice that the maximum entitlement left for this…

Is anyone else having issues trying to contact CMS by telephone today? There is a recorded message saying they are unable to take the call due to exceptional circumstances but I cannot find anything on the internet about why.

Hi all, Not sure if I am posting this in the right place or if there is a thread on this already but here it goes. I have been looking at both options but I’m still unclear which will be the better option for me and my partners situation. We are looking to place our child into childcare for two days a week so looking at…

I’m currently paying CM through a mutual agreement. I paid csa for 16 years without fail. My kids are 17 & 19 both part time at college and both doing part time work. I’ve suggested to the ex that I should reduce the payments as they are both working part time but she has threatened to go back to the csa to reinsert the…

My ex has now decided to stop me from seeing my kids, as i said i cant afford to have them twice this month due to xmas and his birthday coming up, she pretty much said obvouisly your not bothered about them. I am but i needed to get them birthday and xmas presents too. So not only has she stop me seeing them, cut me off…

hi apologies for the long post ex and I have 2 girls, we were together for nearly 8 years, near the end of our relationship ex had become very aggressive towards myself and the children, once we had split I had the girls for the weekend when my daughter told me that mum had hurt her and sister, she showed me bruising and…

Can anyone find anything that confirms the £100,000 threshold is based on the tax year rather than at the point of signing up/reconfirmation - at least this is what I was told when signing my child up for the 30 free hours. I guess we are in a unique situation in that my wife was recently made a partner (moving from a…

Hi there not sure if this can help in any way anyhow my daughter was tested via genetic testing and has been diagnosed with a rare micro chromosome disorder any way we received the results at the hospital and have a report written out were awaiting to see the genetic and being tested ourselves I was just wondering weather…

My partner pays for his two children in a private arrangement directly to his ex-wife (this was put into a consent order through court as part of the divorce). His eldest is 18 and still in full time education but has now moved into her boyfriend's mum's house, so living with neither parent. The money my partner is paying…

Hi, My first time here and I hope someone can offer some insight please? My ex and I split 9 years ago. We have 1 daughter aged 14. In the last 9 years he has not paid maintenance regularly although he has given me £1000 here and there. He was training for a career but had a bad accident a few years ago which left him…

looking for some advice if anyone can help. i have 2 kids to different mums. am currently paying child maintenance through the CMS to one childs mum the other mum asked me to cancel the other some time back which i did but pay the amount into my childs bank account instead. she received a call from the cms a couple of…