How do we go about obtaining re-payment of overpaid child support

Strapped

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

How can it not be fair, he pays what they agreed, and according to your OP this was calculated by reference to CSA formula. He can't claim anything from the state because only one parent can have child benefit, and it is that parent who claims tax credits.

No. This is a common misconception. It is possible for one parent to claim the child benefit and the other to claim the tax credits - although admittedly most tax credit people don't even seem to know this! I know that it is possible because a member of my family does this in their shared care agreement.

Marisco

fannyanna wrote: »

I hope this doesn't come across as rude as I really don't mean it to and my comments are not solely in relation to this comment (but other similar comments I've seen on this board at times)

I always find it a bit annoying when people scoff at actual amounts of child maintenance being paid and state that it's not much.

£100 to one NRP may not be much money but £100 to another will. It all depends on what percentage that £100 equates to.

For example in this case I'm sure the £43 per week equates to 15% of the NRP's net salary. If 15% of another NRP's salary was £80 per week you wouldn't be able to say at least yours is less. It's still 15% of the NRP's net salary however much is actually being paid.

Not rude at all fanny, but I'm going on what my oh had to pay a few years ago - about 15. He was paying about £438 ish out of a monthly wage of nearly £900. When the arrears were paid (no fault of his, CSA strike again:mad:) it only went down to about £360 ish, (can't remember the exact figure now) so we'd have been made up to pay £172!!!!!