CSA recalculation/advice.

little_miss_thrifty

Scarlett1 wrote:

I think on the CSA website there is a calculator where you work out how much maintenance is to be paid, its 15% of your partners net wage, and I think they then reduce some of that to allow for the new born.

Our assessment rocketed when we had our son (but then later came down when my husband went from self employed to employed); we also naively thought that when baby #2 came along, that payments would decrease slightly...oh no!! Because we were getting extra child tax credits, they took this as an income and the CSA payments went up again!!??