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Sponsor a child - which site is best
If you are thinking of sponsoring a child then please consider sponsoring them directly, where all your donations will be going to cover child's basic needs and their education. You can create a great relationship with the children and the orphanage founders, find out what they need and get the first-hand information. I've…
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ex made redundant (?)
Hi, Not sure what to do. I doubt I can do anything so this is more of a rant than anything but any helpful advice would be great. I have a DD (under the age of 10) with my ex. When we broke up he was seeing DD regularly, until he met his now wife when the access dwindled off (His wife gave reasons she didn’t want him…
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Help CSA and Lodger
Hi My wife’s ex doesn’t pay a penny in child support yet he swans about in designer clothes drives a flash car, nice house etc. etc. He is jealous that I have his ex-wife and their son lives with the wife and me. However he doesn’t work and is currently studying to be a self-employed accountant. The questions I have is…
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How much Child Maintenance??
I am trying to find out how much child maintenance my ex should be paying for our child. He has a well paid job (definitely between 36-40k). I have used the maintenance calculator on the government website but it doesn't take into account any other children that they may have to pay for. My ex’s eldest child, from a…
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Re csa
My oh has a 19 yr old daughter, she has just completed college and has decided to do another year. She also works pt in a hairdressers. Cos of her age she now has to pay for her course herself, what is the impact on payments if any, Thanks for any advice
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Backdated large csa payment - does it affect benefit
hi my ex refused to pay csa and ignored everything so after 12 years they have sold his house to get the csa backdated debt and gave me some of what was owed which is £14k but we claim tax credits and help with rent but i am now not sure if and what it affects, as heard it doesnt affect nothing but i cant see how it cant…
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CSA1 Assessment
Hi all, new to this forum so apologies if this question has been asked before. Does anyone know how to work out an assessment on CSA1 rules? Or if I can PM someone who would be able to work it out for me? Thank you in advance.
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CSA Payments and Housing Benefit
Hi Can anyone confirm if CSA payments are taken into consideration when calculating housing benefit payments. Or are the payments disregarded? Scenario is, friend has settled into a property, she works part-time and receives about 60% of her rent in HB payments. Her ex is incredible - he just won't pay any money. I've told…
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Self employment...this is new
So, the ex's limited company was struck off....he's now got a shiny new website which claims he is a 'not for profit organisation'. Can he do this? I mean, legally, without any kind of...I don't know, legality (like a charity number)? Presumably even if he's 'not for profit' the HMRC and/or CSA can ask pertinent questions…
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New CSA scheme confusion
Hi, could anyone offer me some advice please? I am the NRP to 4 children. When I separated from my ex in 2007 she called up the CSA who then contacted me, I sent them payslips & they set the amount payable to my ex. I pay her by standing order direct to her account every month. When my salary changes I send the new…
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Reducing the amount I pay on my arrears
Is it possible for my to reduce how much I pay back on my CSA arrears, it has been to court and I offered to pay £30 a week but now I just can't afford it, can CSA change the amount or would it need to go back to court ?
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Maintainance when student and self employed
Hi, I'm just looking for a bit of help as I'm finding conflicting or no specific information to this situation. I'm self employed (sole trader) but later this year will be a full time student but still registered as self employed as I will need to do some work to survive whilst studying. In this situation how does CSA…
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Child Benefit and CSA – Judicial Review
I am progressing matters beyond the ICE and PHSO who have failed to properly acknowledge the injustice of a decision by the CSA to base their award on who was in receipt of child benefit, following the relocation of the child. The result was that I was denied my right to claim child support for a year. I am looking for…
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When to stop paying csa
My son left school at sixteen and enrolled in a further education three year course at his local college, he has now turned 18 he currently starts back in September on his level three NVQ joinery course he has secured a placement where he does four days a week at a local firm and one day a week at college he will be…
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urgent csa help please x
Hi, I am writing on behalf of a friend who is in a somewhat difficult situation. He has separated from his ex partner with whom he has a 6 year old son, they separated a few years ago and since the split he has been actively paying child maintenance and was having the child stay over with him at weekends etc. He has proof…
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First Tier Tribunal anyone?
I have put in an appeal to the first tier tribunal. Basically the ex didn't do company accounts for 4 years and could not submit them to the CSA when I put in my claim in May 2012. I told them he was a company director and took dividends at that time. In November 2013 when he finally submitted them in just before we went…
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Should I still be paying child maintenance?
Just a quick question....I have read the 'legislation' regarding this but can't find an answer to this specific question. My son is 18 and officially left school on June 26th 2014. I was told that he was going to college so was intending to continue the maintenance payments throughout the school hols and obviously once he…
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Change standing order amount
Ive just received a standing order form from the csa this includes the normal amount i have to pay + 15.00 pounds for arrears per week I cannot afford to pay the arrears back at a rate of £15.00 per week as this assessment has been made on £60 CTC which is the only income i could be assessed on as i don't have any other.…
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DEO to standing order
I volunteered to pay CSA by standing order as soon as they made contact with me. I've just wrote to them requesting a change to standing order but from what I've read it sounds like they are probably going to refuse it!! Has anybody got any recent experience of this? My payment record is perfect.
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Just not paying
Hello. My daughters husband walked out of their marriage when one of their children was two years and the other was five weeks old. He was having an affair with a barmaid we found out afterwards and he is now openly living with her. He is self employed and claims to the new Child Maintenance Service that his earnings have…
