i.s and child maintainance

mazpope

i read somewhere if you get income support and child maintainace you get full income support after april this year as well as yr child maintanance amount instead of them reducing your income support can somebody please tell me does the child maintainance thing have to be done through the csa for this to be done?

its just me and my husband are getting divorced and i dont know if i should go through csa or have a private agreement between us and just declare what he gives me to i.s he is telling me csa will take some of his money and it wont all go to the boys i dont know anything about how the csa work but if thats the case i would rather we did have a private agreement as that way any money they would take he could at least spend on the boys ?if that makes any sense
but i am afraid that if i do a private agreement instyead of using csa will this affect what the i.s will pay me after april ?im so confused obviously whatever he gives me i will declare but i dont see the point in going through the csa if they get a wedge of his money ?unless it will affect what the i.s will pay me if you understand my confusion

can anyone give me some advice please

karenx

When on IS you get to keep £20 per week of maintenance, IS is £64 per week so if he gives you more than £64 you wont qualify for IS.
You declare to IS what he is giving you, say £40 per week and they will deduct £20 from IS

DX2

It doesn't matter how you do, your IS will be affected until 12th April this year.

mazpope

i guess what im trying to say is as by the time the divorce is through and i am able to claim i.s would the change thats coming into place still take effect if it wasnt done through the csa?

Vader123

mazpope wrote: »

i guess what im trying to say is as by the time the divorce is through and i am able to claim i.s would the change thats coming into place still take effect if it wasnt done through the csa?

Yes.

Income is income whether or not the arrangement is through the CSA.

Vader

uolypool

i read somewhere if you get income support and child maintainace you get full income support after april this year as well as yr child maintanance amount instead of them reducing your income support can somebody please tell me does the child maintainance thing have to be done through the csa for this to be done?
Is this true anyone ? also is it just income support or income based jsa or income based esa please

DX2

uolypool wrote: »

i read somewhere if you get income support and child maintainace you get full income support after april this year as well as yr child maintanance amount instead of them reducing your income support can somebody please tell me does the child maintainance thing have to be done through the csa for this to be done?
is this true anyone ? Also is it just income support or income based jsa or income based esa please

dx2 wrote: »

disregard of child maintenance and the treatment of
liable relative payments
the child maintenance disregard

from the first day of the claimant’s first benefit week on or after 12.4.10

1 the special

rules of attribution for lrps and child maintenance no longer apply to payments of

child maintenance. Any payment of child maintenance paid by or derived from an lr -
but not by the claimant or claimant’s partner - falls to be fully disregarded for the
purposes of is, jsa(ib) and esa(ir)

2. Lrps which do not fall within the meaning of

child maintenance continue to be taken into account

3. as a reminder, guidance to

dms will be issued in the form of another dmg memo nearer to 12.4.10.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/m-37-09.pdf
page 10 ^^^

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uolypool

mazpope wrote: »

i read somewhere if you get income support and child maintainace you get full income support after april this year as well as yr child maintanance amount instead of them reducing your income support can somebody please tell me does the child maintainance thing have to be done through the csa for this to be done?

its just me and my husband are getting divorced and i dont know if i should go through csa or have a private agreement between us and just declare what he gives me to i.s he is telling me csa will take some of his money and it wont all go to the boys i dont know anything about how the csa work but if thats the case i would rather we did have a private agreement as that way any money they would take he could at least spend on the boys ?if that makes any sense
but i am afraid that if i do a private agreement instyead of using csa will this affect what the i.s will pay me after april ?im so confused obviously whatever he gives me i will declare but i dont see the point in going through the csa if they get a wedge of his money ?unless it will affect what the i.s will pay me if you understand my confusion

can anyone give me some advice please

DX2 wrote: »

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Sorry this means nothing to me as don't understand it please can someone give an answer in simple terms many thanks uolypool

bestpud

uolypool wrote: »

Sorry this means nothing to me as don't understand it please can someone give an answer in simple terms many thanks uolypool

The link explains it in full but basically, yes, it applies to IB ESA and JSA too.

uolypool

sorry to sound dumb, so I get full housing benefit and council tax benefit ir esa £20 cm from ex partner tax credits and cb if in april my ex decided to give say £45 a week instead of £20 i would be allowed to keep all of this ???

bestpud

uolypool wrote: »

sorry to sound dumb, so I get full housing benefit and council tax benefit ir esa £20 cm from ex partner tax credits and cb if in april my ex decided to give say £45 a week instead of £20 i would be allowed to keep all of this ???

In short, yes.

I imagine many absent parents will suddenly start paying more for their offspring...