i.s and child maintainance

uolypool

bestpud wrote: »

In short, yes.

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

many thanks bestpud dout if my ex would even concider raising it unless i said perhaps we should go back to csa lol

clb776

I think its a much better idea to keep it all. I think alot of people don't claim it as they would lose their money and then have to rely on their ex, if their ex lost their job or didnt pay, its not worth the hassle. Hopefully this will pave the way for people paying for their children and not just expeting the government to foot the bill!

bestpud

clb776 wrote: »

I think its a much better idea to keep it all. I think alot of people don't claim it as they would lose their money and then have to rely on their ex, if their ex lost their job or didnt pay, its not worth the hassle. Hopefully this will pave the way for people paying for their children and not just expeting the government to foot the bill!

I agree but I'm not sure it will work out that way tbh.

For some it may have been an incentive to work and so receive the income and all the CM but now someone can feasibly receive hundreds in CM and still claim IS.

That seems absurd to me and I can see why they didn't bring it in until after the new IS rules for single parents were implemented.

uolypool

part of me thinks yes good idea and other half of me thinks no example if i'd get all that csa calculated that my ex should pay £78 per week for our 5 children plus my esa and all other things cb ctc hb and ctb then i would be (or so it would feel )raking in money because i would in theory be £58 pounds a week better off so to speak the only reason he pays £20 via direct pay is so that i didn't have money deducted from my esa and he had more to spend on kids when he had them or indeed so he could have them at all

clb776

Absent fathers should still have to foot the bill. Alot of them don't pay a penny. Maybe it will teach people to think very carefully about having children as some don't, especially teenagers.

It would surely have to be declared as income for other things such as housing benefit and tax credits?

They would only recieve hundreds if their ex partner was earning alot. My sisters ex, according to csa calculator would have to pay £38 a week. If they took this out of her benefits by the old rules she would get about £46 a week IS. if there was a problem and he lost his job, or for whatever reason, she would then have to wait for this to be sorted out and not have much money to live on.

There are some people who truly deserve benefits but there are some that abuse the system. How many people do you think take money from their ex partner and don't declare it? I imagine its quite a few!

For the majority of people this rule will not make much of a difference. However, the absent parent should take some financial responsibility for their child.

bestpud

I see your point but, no, it doesn't count for HB or tax credits, hence it used to be a possible way of persuading parents to stay in, or obtain, work.

clb776 wrote: »

Absent fathers should still have to foot the bill. Alot of them don't pay a penny. Maybe it will teach people to think very carefully about having children as some don't, especially teenagers.

It would surely have to be declared as income for other things such as housing benefit and tax credits?

They would only recieve hundreds if their ex partner was earning alot. My sisters ex, according to csa calculator would have to pay £38 a week. If they took this out of her benefits by the old rules she would get about £46 a week IS. if there was a problem and he lost his job, or for whatever reason, she would then have to wait for this to be sorted out and not have much money to live on.

There are some people who truly deserve benefits but there are some that abuse the system. How many people do you think take money from their ex partner and don't declare it? I imagine its quite a few!

For the majority of people this rule will not make much of a difference. However, the absent parent should take some financial responsibility for their child.

cabsy83

Hi, I just received an updated award letter from income support, it says that as of 13th april I will now receive £6.99 a week instead of £5.84 woohoo! But this is only because they are still calculating it with a £20 a week maintenance disregard, instead of a full disregard which is what you've been saying previously in this thread. Does anyone know this might be? I thought it might be because the changes aren't yet in place but then I thought to myself its based on what the rate will be in april so that doesn't make sense