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Advice on Child Maintenance please!
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I am on benefits and I am allowed to keep the first £20 a week of the maintenance without it affecting my income support (I went through the CSA because my ex decided not to pay anything for our three children after the first few months). Above £20, my IS is reduced - a fair decision I think.
During the time that my ex didn't pay, I didn't get a penny from the 'big bucket' that you refer to - but I now receive arrears as well as regular payments. Some PWC never receive any CM simply because the 'big bucket' does noy exist.
I have heard that from April, I will be able to keep all of my CM, but I don't know how true that is.0 -
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Pimpslider wrote: »Does it? You sure? I called up the CSA a few years back when things were a bit 'stressy' and they said that she would only get a percentage of it. The rest goes into a big bucket for people who don't get maintainance payments.
E.G, I pay the CSA £150, then she gets £120 of it, and £30 goes to the goverment/CSA fund what have you.
I've never gone through the CSA but that is what I was definately told on the phone.*SIGH*
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Oh dear, poor Pimpslider, me thinks he's not quite up to speed. Anyway, go get your own thread mate! Please don't high jack mine...
I have agreed to DNA test, spoke to CSA and found out which company they use so told him I would be happy to have it all done by them. Then nobody can argue as its all accredited, right and proper!
Just waiting for the text back to say he's arranged it...Be who you are, say what you feel, those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind.They say that talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness. So I talk to the cats instead.0 -
missmontana wrote: »Oh dear, poor Pimpslider, me thinks he's not quite up to speed. Anyway, go get your own thread mate! Please don't high jack mine...
I have agreed to DNA test, spoke to CSA and found out which company they use so told him I would be happy to have it all done by them. Then nobody can argue as its all accredited, right and proper!
Just waiting for the text back to say he's arranged it...
Honey, it doesn't work like that, the CSA get in touch with (usually) Cellmark, Cellmark contact both parties and furnish a list of accredited agents who can obtain the samples, each party arranges at their convenience where they want to go to and when, the agents send the samples off to cellmark and after a few weeks the parties get the results and then one or both can advise the csa. Then it's back to business as usual, the nrp need not inform you or vice versa :A0 -
well I looked on the website and it says you can arrange it through them directly.
http://www.cellmark.co.uk/geninfo/information.phpBe who you are, say what you feel, those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind.They say that talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness. So I talk to the cats instead.0 -
missmontana wrote: »well I looked on the website and it says you can arrange it through them directly.
http://www.cellmark.co.uk/geninfo/information.php
There is no benefit to contacting them directly, the cost is cheaper via the csa, so if your ex is reluctant to pay then I could not see why he would not choose the csa route.0 -
There is no benefit to contacting them directly, the cost is cheaper via the csa, so if your ex is reluctant to pay then I could not see why he would not choose the csa route.
I know, the CSA told me how much they charge. But he obviously hasn't bothered to find out.
He reckoned he had the paper work for me to sign, but I think he was having me on, asked him today if he'd organised it but he hadn't...Be who you are, say what you feel, those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind.They say that talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness. So I talk to the cats instead.0 -
My guess, based on him not having rushed round with the paperwork before you changed your mind, is that it was a bluff and he was hoping that you'd back down from claiming maintenance. (People's expectations are often coloured by their own standards LOL)Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
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From size 24 to 16 and now stuck...0 -
lol! Exactly Daska....:rotfl:Be who you are, say what you feel, those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind.They say that talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness. So I talk to the cats instead.0
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Well, he's done his research now, rung the CSA up, (obviously didn't like the price tag on the independent DNA test) volunteered to send his paperwork in, he's been told he has to wait until somebody contacts him. But is still harping on about having a DNA test... does anybody know if he is willing to send paperwork in, will they give him a DNA test, or would he have to dispute parentage right from the start?
And how long would a DNA test with them take?
Many thanks peeps
Be who you are, say what you feel, those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind.They say that talking to yourself is a sign of mental illness. So I talk to the cats instead.0
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