ESA and child support payments .. help!

trish67

Hello,
I'm currently receiving income related employment and support allowance, and I'm waiting to go to my tribunal, I was wondering if anybody knows if I can accept voluntary child support payments from my ex for our 2 children while I'm receiving ESA.

DX2

Child support no longer affects your benefits, so you can accept them.

trish67

do you know if there is a limit on how much you can receive, I've checked on line and can't seem to find the info I'm looking for

DX2

There is no limit whether it's a fiver or five hundred it doesn't affect your bnefits, I would advise that you do inform the bnefits agency when you get a child support payment.

http://www.csa.gov.uk/en/case/child-maintenance-changing.asp

trish67

thanks, my ex has tried to get out of paying child support, and he was unaware that the law had changed on it, and that he could give the money directly to me. I've brought his kids up on my own for the past 8 years and he hasn't paid a penny for them. However he has now decided to provide for them, but was unaware on the new rules governing child maintenance .... he will not be happy, but it seems I will be. thanks :j

jellybaby1969

DX2 wrote: »

Child support no longer affects your benefits, so you can accept them.

Spot on !!

dazzadub

didnt know this, this isnt great for people, just means people are going to ask more and more off people and its going to cripple some people as it does already. means the person claiming benefits could stay on it for 7 years and claim everythign they can off the other parent and sit in land of luxury with money coming out of there ears

i feel sorry for fathers who work hard and there ex screwing them over while sitting on benefits.

trish67

I feel sorry for mothers like myself who have brought 2 children up on their own without a penny from their father, when a relationship breaks down your obligation as a father doesn't stop .... and if fathers supported their kids like they should it would make it a lot easier for their mothers to go out and get a job! I have struggled to fetch my kids up, I'm unable to work due to an accident that has left me barely able to walk ... yet my kids father has 2 business' 2 houses, drives a Mercedes and lives like there is no tomorrow! So you tell me how that is unfair? You sound like a typical man, happy to have the kids and then want to wash your hands of any responsibility as soon as the relationship is over .... if you don't like the financial responsibility don't put yourself in the position of having kids in the first place ... they aren't just for Christmas. As for single mothers on benefit, I'm sure there is good and bad, just as there is good fathers and bad fathers .... your statement is ignorant, because raising 2 children on your own without any financial help from your children's father is not easy, and I raise my hat to any woman doing it, because they are a bigger man than the waster who was happy to help conceive them but is no longer there!