Unbelievable CSA / DWP Story.

debtel007

Hello all, Just a quick note in case you have a child approaching 19 and are paying CSA.
My daughter is 18 1/2 and has left college, she has just had a baby but I have been told that I will have to pay CSA as her mother is still getting child benefit for her! She is getting child benefit for her child!
so we have a situation where the nan is getting child benefit for her daughter who is also getting child benefit for her child. She is not in full time education but i still have to pay £400 a month until she is 19. I checked with DWP who said its true. The CSA told me on 3 occasions it would stop but now have changed their tune. She isn't going to college with her baby and has left but I have to pay according to csa Bolton. Anyone heard of this situation before, haven't minded paying but for a child who is clearly not a child anymore this takes the biscuit. My MP is on the case but I am very confused. Is our law this mad??

duchy

So she's presumably living at home with a baby -and you want to deprive the household for the money you pay to support your child ?

Do you think because she has given birth she no longer needs shelter, food, electricity etc ? Not exactly the poster boy for parents or grandparents are you ?

GobbledyGook

You should double check the child benefit issue. Unless the rules changed it used to be you could not claim child benefit for someone who was receiving child benefit. For child benefit to be claimed for someone who had a child it was that the same person would have to claim for them both (so if the mother was say 15 then either she could claim for her child, but her parents couldn't claim for her OR her parents could claim CB for both her and her child).

debtel007

duchy wrote: »

So she's presumably living at home with a baby -and you want to deprive the household for the money you pay to support your child ?

Do you think because she has given birth she no longer needs shelter, food, electricity etc ? Not exactly the poster boy for parents or grandparents are you ?

You have no idea about my life. I haven't seen the child in 6 years after her mother moved her away. You sound like someone else who believes that people sitting at home on benefits is fine for the UK. As for depriving the household. What about my household? You are clueless

debtel007

Thanks for a constructive answer. I was told that is the law but CSA seem to make it up as they go along. The £35,000 I have paid out should be enough I think! She is 18 1/2 for gods sake duchy thinks I should pay for ever!!

aupa

duchy wrote: »

So she's presumably living at home with a baby -and you want to deprive the household for the money you pay to support your child ?

Do you think because she has given birth she no longer needs shelter, food, electricity etc ? Not exactly the poster boy for parents or grandparents are you ?

Thats not the point the OP is making.

Its ok for the PWC to come on here and complain when things aren't going the way they think it should be but when a NRP comes on and moans people like to play moral card and NRP should just pay and think about the children etc.. etc...

The guy is quite right to feel !!!!!! off at this decision!!!

Marisco

duchy wrote: »

So she's presumably living at home with a baby -and you want to deprive the household for the money you pay to support your child ?

Do you think because she has given birth she no longer needs shelter, food, electricity etc ? Not exactly the poster boy for parents or grandparents are you ?

So how long are parents supposed to support their adult kids then? Especially if it's not voluntary!! I think most parents would support their kids no matter what age they were, but by their terms not the PWC's!!

GobbledyGook

I forgot to add, if your daughter is claiming any sort of tax credits or income support or anything for her and the baby in her own right then her mother shouldn't be claiming CB.

I don't agree with NRP's who don't pay their way, my father did pay a penny to my grandparents when we were children and it left us skint, but there shouldn't be a legal obligation to pay 'child maintenance' for a young adult with a child of their own imo.

debtel007

Duchy clearly feels bitter about something. I have never missed a payment despite not seeing my daughter for 6 years (through the mothers choice, not mine), I just don't think that THIS situation is very fair on the NRP, everything the PWC is taken as gospel but believe it or not some PWC are liars.

grass_is_greener

duchy wrote: »

So she's presumably living at home with a baby -and you want to deprive the household for the money you pay to support your child ?

Do you think because she has given birth she no longer needs shelter, food, electricity etc ? Not exactly the poster boy for parents or grandparents are you ?

Don't be rediculous, she is an adult not a child. She should be doing what all other adults have to do and that is to support themselves.

debtel007

grass_is_greener wrote: »

Don't be rediculous, she is an adult not a child. She should be doing what all other adults have to do and that is to support themselves.

I couldn't agree more, I would like Duchy to explain a bit more as to why she thinks she is right and I am wrong. I will assume she is a she for my own reasons!!!