Advice on an old scheme case please

cornish_donkey

Hi I'm new here so please be gentle with me :rotfl:

The last time my partner was assesed he was told he doesn't need to pay anything as i'm on incapacity benefit.

He is about to start a new part time job earning about £180 per week take home and i'm still on contributions based incapacity benefit, will he have to pay csa and if so how much?

I've looked at the new benefit calculator (as there is no old scheme calculator) and it suggests about £18 per week but it doesn't take into accout that there is a social security benefit coming into the household (oh and we have 2 other children)

Any help valued as i'm trying to work out my finances

kevin137

Partner or EX-Partner...?

He should never of been told he has to pay nothing, even if HE is on benefits it would be minimum of £5 a week...!

He only has to pay for his children, not others in the household, so more info would be helpful, and it also depends if there is a claim open already and how old that claim is IE CSA 1 or CSA 2... The more info you can give the fuller the answer you will get...

buttercup73

As far as I know the CSA only takes the partner's (nrpp) income to determine if it's higher than the nrp's. If it is higher then it is assumed that the nrpp is paying more in housing cost than the nrp and the maintenance assessment would go up.

I'm not sure what the influence is of it being an nrpp's incapacity benefit but it doesn't seem like something CSA cares about on the old rules; just if it's higher or lower income. Someone please correct me if wrong.

They don't care about a lot of things to do with the nrp's new life on the old rules including if you have children with a new partner.

Nil assessments happen if your partner (nrp) is on benefits, and whether they decide to press through arrears (if any) despite the low benefit income.

cornish_donkey

My patner who i live with has an old case from about 1997, he was paying about £5 per week when he was on his own and on jsa now he lives with me and he is no longer claming jsa, between us we are on incapacity benefit which is mine which is topped up by income support for him. When csa found out he was living with me and his benefits had changed they told him he didn't have to pay.

Now he's due to start work and wondered what he would have to pay. We have two kids of our own living with us and he has another living elsewhere.

kevin137

Ok so you are on CSA 1, it is a very complicated way they work that out, so see if you can check on if you are or not, it makes a huge difference... CSA 2 is very simple to work out.

There are people on here who can work out CSA 1 for you though...

cornish_donkey

kevin137 wrote: »

Ok so you are on CSA 1, it is a very complicated way they work that out, so see if you can check on if you are or not, it makes a huge difference... CSA 2 is very simple to work out.

There are people on here who can work out CSA 1 for you though...

I have looked at all letters and it doesn't say if it's csa 1 or csa 2?

kevin137

What year was the claim with the CSA initiated...? If you can't remember, then a simple call to the CSA to ask will sort that out...

cornish_donkey

kevin137 wrote: »

What year was the claim with the CSA initiated...? If you can't remember, then a simple call to the CSA to ask will sort that out...

Hi it was 1996

Strapped

cornish_donkey wrote: »

Hi I'm new here so please be gentle with me :rotfl:

The last time my partner was assesed he was told he doesn't need to pay anything as i'm on incapacity benefit.

He is about to start a new part time job earning about £180 per week take home and i'm still on contributions based incapacity benefit, will he have to pay csa and if so how much?

I've looked at the new benefit calculator (as there is no old scheme calculator) and it suggests about £18 per week but it doesn't take into accout that there is a social security benefit coming into the household (oh and we have 2 other children)

Any help valued as i'm trying to work out my finances

It sounds as though when your partner was last assessed, the CSA did a protected income calc and found that your household income was less than the protected income level, and so he had a nil assessment. (This is from memory, because we used to be on CSA1 but moved onto a private agreement some time ago). Without more details it's not possible to say whether he will have to pay CSA but assuming that £100 per week is his only income then I wouldn't have thought so.

Since you're a new poster, I won't be nosy and ask whether there is a reason he can't work full-time and be able to pay CSA.

cornish_donkey

Strapped wrote: »

It sounds as though when your partner was last assessed, the CSA did a protected income calc and found that your household income was less than the protected income level, and so he had a nil assessment. (This is from memory, because we used to be on CSA1 but moved onto a private agreement some time ago). Without more details it's not possible to say whether he will have to pay CSA but assuming that £100 per week is his only income then I wouldn't have thought so.

Since you're a new poster, I won't be nosy and ask whether there is a reason he can't work full-time and be able to pay CSA.

It will be about £180 take home per week and the reason for a part-time job is because there are no full-time jobs around. He went for the only suitable full-time job we'd seen posted on the directgov website in possibly a year but didn't get it :mad:

kelloggs36

how much is rent/mortgage? Council tax? Do you get any tax credits? Do you have children living with you? Are any of the children his? How many children does he have to pay for and how old are they?