Moving in with my boyfriend and tax credits

welshcakes

kellogs - I too am classed as receiving CSA maintenance for the children even though I never actually get it. I correctly put it down in the appropriate section of the forms and yes, I am classed as receiving CSA so (quite correctly) have reductions made. I don't have a problem with the principle of this, quite right however I do have a really big problem that as you say, the system does not provide for indefinite periods of the money not actually being available to me. As you say, one phone call to the CSA would confirm that I don't physically receive maintenance which in real terms makes it no more than an assessment on paper that does not translate into actual income.

My ex, the elusive NRP isn't British and is currently making plans to return to his country of birth to work in his parents business. It is a country that is part of the Hague Convention which allows the CSA to continue to pursue him for maintenance when he's back in his homeland. I find this prospect equally hysterical - can you imagine the CSA being capable of effecting payments from someone who doesn't live in the UK and is working for his parents? lol

sexy_fufu

Graham...............

Can I point something out here............

I am a single mother well till the end of the month anyway..........

I work 49 hours a week, pay my own tax, mortgage, car tax ect basically everythink you pay. but the government give me £90 a week towards my childcare which costs £135 a week.

There is no way i could afford to work without this help............
if i took the other option not work there wouldnt be much difference at the end of the month.

My BF is moving in with me at the end of the month and i can see where OP is coming from. I am not saying use your taxes, i pay too much in bloomin tax.

But between me and my BF (not childs dad) we will get no Tax credits. so were putting lots into the system and getting nothing back.

We worked it out, by the time we pay our nursery and bills me and my BF are prob only £100 per month better of than when we were living seperatley.

What incentive is this with the government, personally i think the gov should have state nurserys to enable more parents to go to work.

That way they to could pay taxes like we pay !!!!

Sorry just trying to make you see it from my point of you and that the OP prob does pay tax ect.

Graham_Devon

Ive got nothing against anyone claiming. So long as they claim under the rules.

When people try to claim more, or want more, or want to use the system to their own advantage to live their own choice of lifestyle, I'll raise my voice (not like shout or anything) on the subject.

The OP said it's unfair for her and her boyfriend to have to pay for the child basically, or unfair for the government to take certain benefits away. on the contrary, I think it's unfair that I should be asked to put into a pot to pay for the child when they have their own ways and means of doing so and are living as a family.

Think it's fair that a single mother (that is actually single) claims as she has a child(s) to look after, fair enough.

welshcakes

Sadly, the system does seem to give little incentive for people to 'come off' multiple benefits in favour of an earned living and I therefore recognise why a good many families are reluctant to work more but get less.

It's a messed up system that has sent out the wrong message and crippled the backbone work ethic.

As someone with teenagers who remembers the good old days pre TC, I think it was much more black and white then and basically a case of have a family if and when you can afford to but it's still up to you to fund that choice. On the other hand, I am delighted with progressive systems such as disability and the 'idea' behind child maintenance. Now all they have to do is get the systems to do what they're supposed to.

Perhaps they will read the instructions on the side of the box next time they introduce a 'new, improved' computer system.

kelloggs36

Hear Hear Welshcakes!! Graham to prepare a casserole with dumplings can actually take about 5 minutes, just takes longer to cook but it tastes 1000 times nicer than pre-prepared ones in the shops. Honest. That's what does it for me, being able to taste delicious food rather than bland stuff which I avoid at all costs, plus I don't get all the additives and preservatives, only the pesticides! But you'd still get them in the pre-packed food as well as I use the raw materials. Now, for that drink.........