help please with csa payments

lozzykane

My husbands ex as decided to claim maintaince for my husbands other 2 children, the csa worked out that we have to pay £208. a month. they took into account our child tax and working tax. They were both paid into my husbands account , but now i have changed them into my name and account, but it is a joint claim seeing as my husband is the one with the job. Can the csa still take the tax credits into account now they will be going into my own name and account. I have two young children to take care of and its very hard now all that chunk of money goes every month.

Glpark01

Yes they can still take them as its a joint claim, its very unfair imo but theres nothing you can do about it. We pay nearly £400 a month in csa so i can sympathise how hard it is when they take that amount of money from you.

lozzykane

my hubby only works part time as well, life is not fair.

kelloggs36

You do get a discount for the fact that you have other children - so it cancels out the extra you pay in tax credits.

It doesn't matter whose account it is paid into as it is a joint claim - so if your husband is the main earner, it is deemed to be his income.

PlayingHardball

I agree that using your working tax and tax credit is unfair. I do believe very strongly though that your husband should be supporting his first 2 children. Are the 2 children in your household his also? Do the CSA know about your children as you would have had a reduction.

Maybe he will need to start working full time, which isn't such a bad thing if you aren't working? I know you feel it isn't fair, but it also wouldn't be fair on the first 2 children if they weren't supported

Miss_A__2-2

Hi. I think this is wrong. If you go onto google and work it out with the CSA calculator. You are nothing to do with is past. The only think that matters are the children. How old are his other 2? You need to put all bills and everything in his name so at the end of the month, theres nothing in the account left. The fact you have 2 kids togther aswel has to go into acc. We pay £51 a week. He is on over £27k and i am on maternity... Id phone CSA and double check it id i were you, especially if he works part time

lozzykane

Hi, I challenged the decision and the csa said it was right, they took 20% out for our two now who are 5 and 6, and 20% of what is left goes to her. his other 2 are 13 and 14. she would not spend the money on them, just on herself
miss A how many children is the £51 a week for

lozzykane

we get child tax and working tax of £154 a week, and her earns around £150 a week

Loopy_Girl

What she spends it on is irrelevant. And unless you live in a household and see what the budget is then you cannot really comment.

The entitlement is there and an assessment has been put in place.

Perhaps your husband should look to be increasing his hours since he has 4 children to support?

Has he been paying CS for the years him and the ex have been seperated?

alwayspuzzled

kelloggs36 wrote: »

You do get a discount for the fact that you have other children - so it cancels out the extra you pay in tax credits.
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Which in reality means the only people who get a discount due to the fact they also have other children to support are the ones who are earning enough not to be deemed to need the additional help tax credits are meant to provide to those with a low income.

I agree with CS but do not agree that CHILD tax credits should be used as income for a NRP.

kelloggs36

I do not believe in a reduction for additional children - if you cannot afford to support the ones you have already, then maybe think twice before having more and then complaining about how expensive it is.