Ex partner stealing Child Tax Creidts and Family Allowance

skintandscared_2

Pam17 wrote: »

It's not quite a simple as this. The Benefits Offices will not even discuss or acknowledge his ex's claim with him because to do so would breach DATA security.

That doesn't mean I condone what his ex is doing.

What else can he do though? A claim by him will surely set off an investigation into who should rightly be receiving the benefit? I would go for the route that involved least contact/compliance by the ex. OP - does the ex see the kids at all at the moment?!

System

skintandscared wrote: »

What else can he do though? A claim by him will surely set off an investigation into who should rightly be receiving the benefit? I would go for the route that involved least contact/compliance by the ex. OP - does the ex see the kids at all at the moment?!

He has made the claims and they in themselves will trigger correspondence to both him and his ex. If both departments award the payments to him then his ex will be required to repay the monies she claimed fraudulently. However he will not be formally informed of this himself, again for Data security reasons.

He will know that they may be doing this though when he sees what date his claims are backdated to because if they backdate them to the date the ex left the household and he knows she was getting paid after this then, as I said in a previous post, they don't pay 2 people for the same children and they will have stopped her claims on the day she left the home. She would then be pursued for the overpaid monies.

Unfortunately this situation is all too common and I myself can't understand how a parent could be so spiteful to their children. They may think they are getting at their ex partner but ultimately it affects the feeding and clothing of their children. Really sad.

InsertName

Bayness,

I was in the same boat as you 2 years ago, my ex switched our joint claim into a sole claim when she left me with the kids. Same problems with the tax credit people too, had to get it investigated etc...

They gave her a £3500 back pay, and paid her £190 a week, she gave me £40-50 a week... Which was nice

If you can get her to relinquish all rights to the claim it will be tonnes easier, my claim ran from August 2009, i didn't start receiving payments until Feb 2010.

They have timescales that they promise which i have experience of not being true, I do hope that your case goes quicker though.

Report her to the benefit fraud team, it may work in your favour.

Hammyman

Welcome to the rampant sexist social security system which is completely biased against men. My brother is in the same boat to some extent. He has the children 50% of the time but isn't entitled to claim half the CB or CTC. His wife gets 100%.

lovetowinacar

Hammyman wrote: »

Welcome to the rampant sexist social security system which is completely biased against men. My brother is in the same boat to some extent. He has the children 50% of the time but isn't entitled to claim half the CB or CTC. His wife gets 100%.

Totally agree my brother has his children almost 50% of time, pays more child maintenance than he should do, she claims CTC, WTC, CTB, CB and of course the child maintenance is an extra for her. When he has the children she still keeps all the money so he is gradually racking up debts just feeding them when he has them, he still pays the mortgage, and can only afford to rent a room from a friend who is wonderful and lets the children stay over in another room when he has them. She has managed two foreign holidays and he can barely afford to feed them but the system is totally weighted to the "responsible" parent. Rant over

Good luck I hope you manage to sort this out quickly for the sake of you and your children - yet another very mean selfish parent - hopefully she will be caught out!

Mojisola

Hammyman wrote: »

Welcome to the rampant sexist social security system which is completely biased against men. My brother is in the same boat to some extent. He has the children 50% of the time but isn't entitled to claim half the CB or CTC. His wife gets 100%.

In cases like this, each parent should claim for one of the children - or more, depending on how many children there are. Each parent then gets a share of CB and other related benefits.

InsertName

The whole system sucks for dads, not just benefits, I have my children 100% of the time, as a single father for the first 12 months and then with my new wife.

I have had to fight for benefits for the kids, and now 2 years down the line have to fight a losing battle in court as she now wants back in their lives.

If it were the other way round and I applied to court, 2 years later, they would laugh at me,