CMEC total disregard of benefits?

MIKEtheBIKE_2

Does anyone have any up-to-date news on CMECS total disregegard of benefits, which is due to come into force in April 2010?

This means that PWCs who claim benefits will be entitled to keep ALL monies paid to the in child maintenance without affecting their benefits.

It's been on the cards for a couple of years now, and is mentioned on CMECs website.

Can anyone tell me if its still on the cards and of an exact date when it might start?

DX2

from 12th April 2010.

missmontana

How maintenance affects benefits
Currently, if you or your current partner who you live with are claiming Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance or income-related Employment and Support Allowance, the first £20 per week of any maintenance you receive will not affect those benefits.
From 12 April 2010, you will be able to keep all of the maintenance that you are paid without it affecting your benefit entitlement. However, you must continue to tell Jobcentre Plus about any maintenance payments you get.
Find out more about maintenance and benefits on the Child Maintenance Options website.

MIKEtheBIKE_2

Thank you guys.

Now can anyone tell me exactly why this decision has been made and went to find the official information?

MIKEtheBIKE_2

Sorry typo - where not went

DX2

MIKEtheBIKE wrote: »

Thank you guys.

Now can anyone tell me exactly why this decision has been made and went to find the official information?

DISREGARD OF CHILD MAINTENANCE AND THE TREATMENT OF
LIABLE RELATIVE PAYMENTS
The child maintenance disregard

23 From the first day of the claimant’s first benefit week on or after 12.4.101 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 account3. As a reminder, guidance to
DMs will be issued in the form of another DMG memo nearer to 12.4.10.

1 Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009, reg 1(6); 2 JSA Regs, Sch 7, para 70; IS
(Gen) Regs, Sch 9, para 73; ESA Regs, Sch 8, para 60; 3 JSA Regs, reg 117; IS (Gen) Regs, reg 54; ESA Regs, reg 119

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/m-37-09.pdf
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MIKEtheBIKE_2

Nice one.
I have an old copy of the the DMG manual from a couple of years back - downloaded from the web, but it's long since vanished from the web.

All we need to do now is change the law so that anyone who was already doing this - for the last 10 years - gets left alone by the CSA and not hounded for arrears.

Hooray for common sense from CMESS - ooops CMEC at last

Mum2four_2

I have just come off the phone to them as they have been passing my cases back and forth since june when they do assess my childrens father I'd like to know where the money will vanish too and they said as it stands nothing is changing and that there was supposed to be a total disregard but they havent heard anything!
Confused

seven-day-weekend

missmontana wrote: »

How maintenance affects benefits
Currently, if you or your current partner who you live with are claiming Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance or income-related Employment and Support Allowance, the first £20 per week of any maintenance you receive will not affect those benefits.
From 12 April 2010, you will be able to keep all of the maintenance that you are paid without it affecting your benefit entitlement. However, you must continue to tell Jobcentre Plus about any maintenance payments you get.
Find out more about maintenance and benefits on the Child Maintenance Options website.

So somebody with the same amount of income and children who is NOT on those Benefits will be worse off than those on the Benefit.

Labour are certainly getting their voting base satisfied just in time for the General Election.

DX2

Mum2four wrote: »

I have just come off the phone to them as they have been passing my cases back and forth since june when they do assess my childrens father I'd like to know where the money will vanish too and they said as it stands nothing is changing and that there was supposed to be a total disregard but they havent heard anything!
Confused

Lone parent advisor at the JCP told me last Wednesday that it is happening. Maybe you just got someone at the CSA who doesn't know what they are talking about (wouldn't be the first time)

DX2

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

So somebody with the same amount of income and children who is NOT on those Benefits will be worse off than those on the Benefit.

Labour are certainly getting their voting base satisfied just in time for the General Election.

Labour ain't getting my vote :D