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Ex shows earnings of £100 per week
Situation: ex runs his own limited company and pays himself £100 per week wages. CSA collects £15 per week for two children. In reality he earns at least £700 per week, rents a house £600 per month. What mother can do?
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Overpaid - no refund !!!!!!
Hi all :) i'm going around in circles. CSA closed and CMS opened. Turns out an over payment of £1700 has been made yet the CSA wont refund as its "detrimental to the children" from my previous relationship (i also have a young child at home) complaints have yet to call me back (since March) and ive called every couple of…
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CMS Payments, what effects them?
Hi, The CMS have been in touch about a case between myself and my ex. She wants to move the case to them instead of sorting something out between ourselves, therefore prompting an income review on my part. I have had a pay rise in the last year, but I have also a significant mortgage and other financial commitments (loans…
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CSA Arrears Query
I wonder if anyone on here can enlighten me please? When my kids became teens several years ago, my bitter ex decided to call the CSA and tell them I had not paid a penny, despite the fact that she'd had regular cash off me up until this point. Long and short is that I ended up having to pay back over £23K (of which she…
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Child Tax Credit Query
I've signed up for tax free childcare however I've realised that the child tax credits and childcare vouchers I currently receive are almost as worthwhile. As my wife may have to stop working later this year can I cancel the Tax free childcare enrolment, as I'd then be left with nothing? I've not paid anything into the…
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Tax free childcare
Hi Does anybody know if it is possible to use this new scheme alongside the childcare vouchers scheme. My wife gets the maximum vouchers allowable of around £243 per month through her employer. I'm wondering if I can make up the balance of our childcare costs by the new the new tax free childcare scheme (I am self…
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30 hours free childcare
Apologies mods if this is posted in the wrong place, I couldn't find another suitable area. I have a question surrounding the 30 hours free childcare proposal. My partner has a 7 year old daughter from a previous marriage and I am looking to understand what our entitlements would be from a childcare perspective. We both…
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Worrying about transition to Universal Credit...will I receive less?
Hello all, Someone mentioned to me today that Universal Credit will start to replace a lot of benefits going forward and that you may end up receiving less per month when the changeover happens. I tried using the calculator to calculate how much I would get but I am getting a bit confused using it as the figures it is…
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Advice for single father
Hi i split with my ex around five years ago we have two children and my son moved in with me so we each had full time care of a child each. A little later i found out my ex had approached the csa demanding money (strange i know) so i called the csa an explained about me having my son full time etc their repy was i would…
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Do I have to pay maintenance and the mortgage for the family house they live in
Do I have to pay child maintenance as well as the family house mortgage which the ex and children live in even though I don't live there
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Would the CSA take my heavy goods?
I'm currently in 8k of arrears I've paid my ex around 5k but refuse to correspond with the CSA for time being. I have 2 little kids that I'm trying to get out of a council flat and my ex will never let me see my first born. She's refusing me access I'm refusing my money and yes I know it's 2 totally different things before…
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CM Calculation when ex is self employed
My ex is a self employed taxi driver.....yeah we all know why....how do I get a vague idea of his earnings....or what he says he earns?? He said that £150 a month for two kids is enough?! I don't want to Greedy I just want my kids to not loose out.
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Child Tax Credits - Stopped.
Hi All, I received a letter last week to advise that my child tax credit payments have now been stopped due to a change in responsibility of child. There has been no change in responsibility, my son has lived with me for the past year and that is still the case. I claim the child benefit and his Mother pays me CSA…
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Working out CSA payments
Hi. This is a question about whether the CSA take work expenses into consideration when deciding on how much a parent should pay in child support. I have made regular weekly payments to my ex for six years, but two things have recently changed: 1) I now incur approximately £500 a month in work related travel expenses (I…
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Will the CSA back pay me (dad)
hi i'm on the old system csa and pay for 1child £260 a month. i have only just realised you get a discount if you have other children living with you which i do 3! which says i would get a discount of 25% my question is would this be back dated as my eldest is 9? i'm sure if it was the other way around the would want it…
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CSA written off then CMS raise again!?
Hi, This is a query for a friend I thought IO would ask for advise for him on here... In brief, mother approached CSA in 2006 and was granted. Father paid a certain amount but did not hear from CSA so paid mother certain amounts as and when he could. In 2009 mother told CSA she will just get money off father as and when…
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Tax Credit overpayment.
Hi all, I received a letter from HMRC today about an overpayment me and my (then) wife received between the years of 2010 and 2012. Turns out it's because my earning were higher than we'd declared. As it's almost £20,000 (not a typo!) and clearly can't pay it all off in one go, and as we are now separated, I'm liable to…
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Child Maintenance Advise
Good Evening all, My ex partner currently pays me direct the agreed amont each month which the csa advised him from his P60. Today he has told me that he is facing redundancy and has been offered a settlement payable to him by cheque. Therefore this will not show on his P45. He is saying he wont be able to pay me anything…
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child care centre
Hi All, I hope this is the right forum to post this question on I want to register my kid with a nursery so she learns to play with people and socialise from early age as she is due to get goverment 15 hours grant in Sept 18. I found a nursery and they asked us to pay a registration fee which we did they now called us to…
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CMS and Rental income
Hello. Me and my partner are moving house and considering renting out our old house. We won't be making any 'profit' in real terms as the rental income we will make will go towards paying our new mortgage i.e. mortgage on old property is £196 pcm rental income £500 but new mortgage will cost £500+ per month. I am on a…
