Any help with children abroad

smitaly69

Hello im an english dad whos returned to the uk after living abroad. I split with my ex six years ago and have been back in the uk since nov.My children live in italy with their mother whos italian and the kids were born there. Im really struggeling to pay for my rent here and the maintenence for the kids,i work 52hrs a week and take home 265 a week,i pay 350 a month for the kids and 300 for the flat,the council tax is reduced from 100 to 75 ,on top of that im paying a loan back 75 a month,45 electric about 30 phoning italy,Are there any benefits for me???

seven-day-weekend

Try putting your details into https://www.entitledto.com and see what it comes up with.

smitaly69

have tried that says yes but the benefit agency says no!!

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smitaly69 wrote: »

Hello im an english dad whos returned to the uk after living abroad. I split with my ex six years ago and have been back in the uk since nov.My children live in italy with their mother whos italian and the kids were born there. Im really struggeling to pay for my rent here and the maintenence for the kids,i work 52hrs a week and take home 265 a week,i pay 350 a month for the kids and 300 for the flat,the council tax is reduced from 100 to 75 ,on top of that im paying a loan back 75 a month,45 electric about 30 phoning italy,Are there any benefits for me???

I doubt theres any help tbh,however i suspect you are paying more child support than you would legally have to if for example the csa were involved,a friend of mine was only paying £320 a month for 3 kids and his gross salary was around 26k,I can appreciate that you would want to provide as much as possible for them but YOU have to live as well.

Conor_3

Are you honestly surprised?

Just a thought on the phone calls to Italy though.Is it to phone the kids? Do they have a computer there with internet access? If so, you could both get webcams and use MSN Messenger to do free video calls.