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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…
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Morally wrong or is it ok?
So a ex of my husbands has been in touch ( found us via Facebook) in summary they where together 2 months , she had a child in 2003 never told my husband. She says she must of only been a week or two pregnant when they split up and she met someone they day after. She had the child and put her new partner on the birth…
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Historical unpaid maintenance
Hi all, wondered if anyone could help and/or advise please? So my father failed to stick to the court agreement to pay my mother weekly maintenance for my sister and I. He actually stopped in 1990 so working this out including interest accrued is a pretty heart sum. He has children from a previous marriage and also step…
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Pip and housing benefit
Hi could any body answer my question please I was working full time and had to go part time I applied for pip for my depression and won backdated for a year Dwp paid my back payment of £2700 and tax credits paid my disability back payment of £1900 will my housing benefit be backdated for a year as I was working full time…
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Help With CMS
Hi its a really long story but i will try to keep it as short as possible. I had a case with the CSA which ended December 2014 i got a letter saying my ex still owed over £500 to me and that the new CMS would take over this and recover what he owed. I set up a case with CMS for maintenance payments and was told they would…
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Tax Credit Investigation for Reconsideration on Decision
Hi all, I'm after some advice... I claim wftc as a single person - my husband passed away 3 years ago. When he passed away my husband had his own business of which we were both directors and our acountant filed our annual tax returns etc. After my husband died (he had a pub) i had to change the pub in to my nme in order to…
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Money owed from CSA
I've been informed by the CSA that I shouldn't have been paying maintenance since September 2015 when child benefit stopped. I have given them my bank details so they can refund the money but they have told me they need to investigate the file from the start (Sept 2010). I've not missed any payments. They've now told me it…
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Fed up with paying but not being able to see my children
I have been attacked by the Csa now for a year with them taking money direct from wages £900 p/m but I can't see my kids so enough is enough I'm going self employed any tips or thoughts
