When is last CSA payment?

grc

I've been paying £520pcm for the last dozen or so years, my Son is coming up to his 18th birthday middle of next year.

He's currently engaged and when I heard this, I also started saving for a £1000 gift to him when he turned 18, but do I read on here that I need to keep paying my £520 until he's 19? Even if he gets married? Moves out from living with his mother?

It's causing quite a bit of hardship saving for this gift, of course he hasn't directly seen any of the regular maintainence due to his mothers benefit reductions.

Hoping to find information on here as I never get anything out of the CSA.

And yes, I was one of the unfortunates right at the start who had a court order for equitable payments that got ripped up for the benefit of the Chancellor Support Agency

Ta!

Loopy_Girl

Is he in any type of education and if so, what?

grc

Doing 'A' levels at high school now, and he's just put in applications to become a retainer for the fire service. He's done physical assessments for that.

Loopy_Girl

Okay, at the moment he is in further education which means you still have a liability to pay your CS. As soon as he has done his A levels and left school for the fire brigade then your liabilty stops.

For as long as his Mum is able to claim Child Benefit for him (which she can just now) then you still have to pay your CS. Should he still be at school when he turns 19 then irrelevant of the fact he is still at school, your liability will end.

Donedoingdebt

CSA liability should cease if he moves out to get married as there would then be no PWC.

Usually, liability continues until he's 19 if he's still living at home with the PWC & is in further education. It should stop if he is in advanced or higher education such as uni.

If he is not in any form of education after the age of 16, then again, liability should cease.

Assuming he's doing A levels in upper 6th year now, then liability will stay until at least next September.

Just as an aside, the £1000 gift will make no difference to CSA payments.

Donedoingdebt

You beat me to it, LG!!!!!

Loopy_Girl

Donedoingdebt wrote: »

You beat me to it, LG!!!!!

I learned from the best my chum

grc

Thanks everyone. I know the gift won't make a difference to the CSA but it will make a difference to him - it's just that I might have to defer it for a year, I was expecting CSA to end when he was 18.

chall1964

grc wrote: »

I've been paying £520pcm for the last dozen or so years, my Son is coming up to his 18th birthday middle of next year.

He's currently engaged and when I heard this, I also started saving for a £1000 gift to him when he turned 18, but do I read on here that I need to keep paying my £520 until he's 19? Even if he gets married? Moves out from living with his mother?

It's causing quite a bit of hardship saving for this gift, of course he hasn't directly seen any of the regular maintainence due to his mothers benefit reductions.

Hoping to find information on here as I never get anything out of the CSA.

And yes, I was one of the unfortunates right at the start who had a court order for equitable payments that got ripped up for the benefit of the Chancellor Support Agency

Ta!

For child maintenance purposes, a child is anyone under 16 or
someone between 16 or 19 who:

• is in full-time non-advanced education (not higher than A-level equivalent) OR
• is registered for work or work based learning.

Even if a person falls into one of the above groups, s/he will not be considered a quafilying child if they are in a civil partnership OR are / have been married.