income support in pregnancy

piglet25

Sometimes relationships do break up and its not always in anyones interest to 'stay friends'. If circumstances are such that the parent with the children are safer not claiming off the father then thats their choice, and if they would get to keep the maintenance and not loose any benefits then it makes no difference to anyone else, as its the person with the children who will lose out and nobody else. I agree with the points made re runaway fathers but to be fair, did you all know your partners inside out when you met them? For a small number, benefits are a way of life but for the vast majority its a helping hand for a short period of their lives.

sparkletots

Loopy

Thats where your wrong! I pay csa out of MY money for my husbands previous child thank you and dont take a penny from my childrens father, I dont agree with it so even though we have to pay it for his I will never ever claim it for mine, I had them, he got violent, I left, thats life, the csa was originally set up to save tax payers money as if you got any maintenance then they took it from your benefit and rightly so!

Now a woman can earn what she likes, claim all the benefits going and still be entitled to the child tax credits paid to the absent parent including the disability premium paid in it for her own child! Thats stealing from one child to give to the other

how does that make me bitter that I choose NOT to claim csa? This is a whole different thing to what the thread started on so il shall leave my views elsewhere