what benefits taken into account when paying csa

katie1

hi all,
Just trying to find out some facts for my friend. If she was to go through csa for payments for her 2 children would they take any money off her from child tax /working tax ?? she work partime get child/ working tax and thats it .Herself and husband split up over 11/2 years ago and hes not paid her a penny for 9 months. He has them every other weekend for 1 night and two evenings weekdays .

and help would be gladly recieved .

catenorfolk

The CSA dont take wtc/ctc that pwc gets into account when they calculate nrp payments. at least on csa1, dont think they do on csa2 either

shell_542

If your friends goes through the CSA they do not take money off of her child tax or working tax credits.

If she receives any income based benefits (Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance and income-related Employment and Support Allowance) then she will have to declare to them how much she receives in maintenance. She will then only get to keep up to £20 a week of the maintenance. The remainder will be deducted from the benefit amount.

If she doesn't receive income based benefits then CSA payments will not affect anything (that I'm aware of)

HTH

Blob

They only take into acount what the NRP gets not the PWC. They dont care about the NRP in any shape or form, they will even take LDA for a child into account even if the child is from the new partner that had nothing to do with the breakdown of the relationship if they can!