Fathers surname

davenkirst

IF a fathers surname is not on the childs certificate...
Will they ask why at a jobcentre for interview for claiming IS...
Reason i ask is its a delicate and sensitive subject for me and dont wish to be put on the spot

Lone parent 5yer old + 6 mnth old baby

astonsmummy

No the jobcentre wont ask anything like that.

Zara33

For income support purposes they will expect you to claim Child support from the CSA for your children.

SweetPea23

They'll expect you to name the father but they won't ask why the father isn't on the birth certificate, I can't actually even remember showing them my childs.

busiscoming2

Thinking about what Zara33 said, surely there must be some circumstances (not saying this is yours davenkirst) whereby a child may have been borne from a negative situation like a rape or incest. So I wonder how the benefits system would deal with that? I suppose the applicant would just say they don't know who the father is......

astonsmummy

Zara33 wrote: »

For income support purposes they will expect you to claim Child support from the CSA for your children.

When I claimed back in October, all I got was a call from soemthing called child support options or something like that, they sent me out a leaflet but didnt ask the usual questions CSA used to.

astonsmummy

busiscoming2 wrote: »

Thinking about what Zara33 said, surely there must be some circumstances (not saying this is yours davenkirst) whereby a child may have been borne from a negative situation like a rape or incest. So I wonder how the benefits system would deal with that? I suppose the applicant would just say they don't know who the father is......

With the old system you could 'opt out' of the csa trying to find the NRP, but had to have a valid reason which the above would probably come under.

Damzel_In_Distress

You dont have to name the father if there is reason or a degree of uncomfert...if the child has come from a rape/incest situation would be the main one but there are also a million and one other reasons they will accept for not wanting to say...even just SAYING you fear for your safety will get you out of it..they dont make you prove it.
That has always seemed a bit daft to me to be honest,but if you have a genuine reason and you are stuck on what to say i would simply say that.

pipkin71

Damzel_In_Distress wrote: »

You dont have to name the father if there is reason or a degree of uncomfert...if the child has come from a rape/incest situation would be the main one but there are also a million and one other reasons they will accept for not wanting to say...even just SAYING you fear for your safety will get you out of it..they dont make you prove it.
That has always seemed a bit daft to me to be honest,but if you have a genuine reason and you are stuck on what to say i would simply say that.

I'm going back ten years and situations change, but I had to prove there was violence in the relationship and risk to us, for the CSA not to chase maintenance payments.

Oldernotwiser

pipkin71 wrote: »

I'm going back ten years and situations change, but I had to prove there was violence in the relationship and risk to us, for the CSA not to chase maintenance payments.

I hope this hasn't changed and they don't just take claimant's word for it, otherwise the system would really be open to abuse.

pipkin71

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I hope this hasn't changed and they don't just take claimant's word for it, otherwise the system would really be open to abuse.

Mine was ten years ago, and I thought it pretty fair that you had to provide proof because, like you say it can be open to abuse, but then there are women who never reported the violence - I never reported every single attack - but I did have police and hospital reports to confirm our safety was in danger.

I think the biggest thing was that by the CSA getting involved, the father would then have known where we were, so perhaps it would have been better that they still took some of his wages without revealing our whereabouts IYSWIM. I don't know why our whereabouts would have been revealed but that was the system ten years ago.