The CSA keeps badgering me to go back to work, but work doesnt pay, suggestions pleas

DX2

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

I think I am someone so under your statement of anyone with children I would be included. I don't earn anything fortunately my OH does and we don't get even a tenner a week which is how your post reads. It was perfectly clearin what it said ven i it was incorrect. I'm not trying to pick an argument but I think it is misleading because your post suggests CTC isn't means tested and that clearly isn't correct.

Of course CTC are means tested why else would I say those who don't work get more, those on low income gets some and those on a high income if lucky get a tenner. If CTC wasn't means tested then everyone would get the same a little like CB don't you think.

Sidekick_2

JamesP1976 wrote: »

Yes. Why should that prevent him claiming CTC just because he lives elsewhere?

I also dont get why the CSA charge liability on CTC what is claimed against an income that is not even his.

I'll make enquiries. I dont have much experience in dealing with tax credits. My partner is more clued up on financials.

As I said, I don't believe you have done your calculations correctly.
CTC would be included in your assessment for the purposes of the child maintenance. However travel to work costs, council tax and an allowance for the child living with you would be taken off. Csa 1 calculations are difficult to work out without all the information. You have merely worked out 30% of your net income so your calculations are incorrect.

To answer your original post, you have missed the above points.

PreludeForTimeFeelers

JamesP1976 wrote: »

Im lost.

CTC is for the child living in the household, now its not.

Your household get tax credits, which are split into working tax credits and child tax credits. They are awarded jointly to you and your partner, therefore it is an assessable income that you have. WTC wouldn't be used, as you're not working which makes your partner the primary earner, so the CSA would assess you on the child tax credits that you receive.

SingleSue

JamesP1976 wrote: »

Sounds odd. I can now see why PWCs want to become PWC's

I think linking maintenance and contact is long overdue. I'll write to Maria Miller and offer encouragement to consider the proposal. But I am still under the belief that tax credits should be available to all working parents.

A PWC here.......and a PWC who did not want to be one.

Not all PWC are out to get all they can, not all NRP are clambering to see their children...some PWC's agree and negotiate, some NRP's couldn't care a jot about seeing their children.

Dave101t

work obviously does pay, but not enough for the scum of the world to be 'bovvered' to get of their backsides.

anguk

JamesP1976 wrote: »

Yes. Why should that prevent him claiming CTC just because he lives elsewhere?

I also dont get why the CSA charge liability on CTC what is claimed against an income that is not even his.

I'll make enquiries. I dont have much experience in dealing with tax credits. My partner is more clued up on financials.

You're living as a couple therefore there is no "his or hers", everything is joint. The CTC is yours so the CSA will take it into account as income.

Your tax credit claim is joint, it's actually paid to your partner but it's still joint (actually you have said you look after your child so really it should be paid to you as main carer).

I must admit I do think it's daft that CTC is paid for the child/children that live with you but the CSA count it as income when working out maintenance for the children who don't live with you. Give it to one child in one household but take some of it away to give to other children in another household (especially daft when the other household is likely to be claiming CTC themselves for those children).

But daft as it is those are the rules.

gillypkk

this thread gets even more unbelievable!!

first the OP wont return to work to pay CSA for his kids coz he wont be better off by as much as he wants and now he wants to claim CTC for the kids he doesnt even pay for?!?!

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JamesP1976

anguk wrote: »

Your tax credit claim is joint, it's actually paid to your partner but it's still joint (actually you have said you look after your child so really it should be paid to you as main carer).

Ive read the HMRC award letter again, and it does say CTC is awarded to my partners name. Thats why I have never put it on the MEF, it only asks for MY income and declaring partners income is not compulsory.

Have a read of my post #218, wouldnt that still apply anyway?

If you want, I can scan the HMRC letter showing who it is addressed, and to whom the CTC award is made. I really cant see how the CSA can infer anything different.

JamesP1976

PreludeForTimeFeelers wrote: »

Your household get tax credits, which are split into working tax credits and child tax credits. They are awarded jointly to you and your partner, therefore it is an assessable income that you have. WTC wouldn't be used, as you're not working which makes your partner the primary earner, so the CSA would assess you on the child tax credits that you receive.

Your advice is contradictory.

You say I am assessed for CTC (which in any event, is awarded to my partner) for a child that lives with me and paid to the primary carer named on the form

Now you imply that same CTC is paid to the CSA for children that dont live with me.

gillypkk

JamesP1976 wrote: »

I will run out of corn at this rate!

stop being so damn derogatory and insulting!! you came here for advice you have been given it and yet you feel it acceptable to throw around childish insults and call people names!

i think your girlfriend should be claiming child benefit for 2 children not 1!!!