Father wants to help out financially

tanith

A young friend has recently split with long term partner (6yrs) and father of her youngest child , she has two others from a previous relationship... she is going to have to claim IS , CTB, HB and whatever else she qualifies for being a single stay at home mum (baby is just 2yrs) . Today she had first meeting with the absent partner when he came to take his child for a few hours (they have managed to keep amicable by the way) and he has offered her an amount a week for the baby...

What we need to know is will this amount (yet to be decided) be taken away from any benefits she is entitled to? As he wants it to be used for his own child , this is going to be more complicated I am sure.....

thanks

debsy42

Not sure why she can't work as I know plenty of ladies who have had nippers yet have gone back to work afterwards ?

tanith

Debsy thanks for that input but thats not the question I was asking... I don't really want to get into the reasons for her not working yet...

zoezoe_3

tanith wrote: »

A young friend has recently split with long term partner (6yrs) and father of her youngest child , she has two others from a previous relationship... she is going to have to claim IS , CTB, HB and whatever else she qualifies for being a single stay at home mum (baby is just 2yrs) . Today she had first meeting with the absent partner when he came to take his child for a few hours (they have managed to keep amicable by the way) and he has offered her an amount a week for the baby...

What we need to know is will this amount (yet to be decided) be taken away from any benefits she is entitled to? As he wants it to be used for his own child , this is going to be more complicated I am sure.....

thanks

Well, its great that he wants his money spent on his child. would be great if I am sure plenty of taxpayers would rather their money coudl be spent on their children instead of raising those who like to take as much as they can from the system.

At the end of the day she could get a job, seems unlikely that she will mind. So yes some of the maintanance money woul dbe taken into consideration for the means tested benefits.

The father will of course have to pay the sum the CSA state and it will need to be declared.

Zoe

tanith

Thanks for that information Zoe much appreciated.. its just a pity that you have judged my friend without knowing the slightest bit about her and her children and the circumstances surrounding her, how you manage to draw the conclusion that she won't get a job if and when she is able is beyond me ... as I said earlier I do not want to get into a discussion about it, you have answered my query and I thankyou for that

zoezoe_3

"how you manage to draw the conclusion that she won't get a job if and when she is able is beyond me"

How did you manage to draw the conclussion that I had come to that conclussion ? I had not said that i didn't think that she will get a job when she can. i said she will not be getting a job now, and that was because you said she wouldn't !

The rest of my comments still stand.

ukdickie31

What we need to know is will this amount (yet to be decided) be taken away from any benefits she is entitled to?

Yes, It will be classed as an income. I pay my daughter £30 per week and some of this gets taken from my ex's Income Support / JSA (it's non CSA maintenance)

I found this

Under the new child support scheme, introduced on 3 March 2003 for new cases, the child maintenance premium allows for up to the first £10 of child maintenance paid by the non-resident parent to be ignored in the calculation of your Income Support. Non-child Maintenance payments are taken into account in full.

Link here

http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Partners/Allowancesandbenefits/Dev_010125.xml.html

Don't read the guidance in isolation, there's a few pages to read, not just 1 paragraph !

nats3006

i have 2 children and on IS i get £20 per week off ex and they take £10 of that from my income support as you are allowed to keep the first £10 then anything thereafter they take off your money, :rolleyes: i dont work either and is nobodys business who works and who doesnt there is nothing people can do to make them work you just help your friend out the best you can!! some people are just too quick and nosy :eek:
hope u get it sorted
good luck
nats
x

zoezoe_3

nats3006 wrote: »

i have 2 children and on IS i get £20 per week off ex and they take £10 of that from my income support as you are allowed to keep the first £10 then anything thereafter they take off your money, :rolleyes: i dont work either and is nobodys business who works and who doesnt there is nothing people can do to make them work you just help your friend out the best you can!! some people are just too quick and nosy :eek:
hope u get it sorted
good luck
nats
x

hang on !! My comments about working were not to suggest that she should. Simply that she wasn't, nd it is relevant since if she worked she would be able to keep all the maintanance money.

I myself was a single mother for 11 years and didn't always work - who is being quick and nosy now ??

milkydrink

nats3006 wrote: »

i have 2 children and on IS i get £20 per week off ex and they take £10 of that from my income support as you are allowed to keep the first £10 then anything thereafter they take off your money, :rolleyes: i dont work either and is nobodys business who works and who doesnt there is nothing people can do to make them work you just help your friend out the best you can!! some people are just too quick and nosy :eek:
hope u get it sorted
good luck
nats
x

Who do you think pays your benefits, those very people whom you think it is none of their business, while they support you it is their business.........

Scarlett1

tanith whatever money your friend receives will be classed as income, she will be allowed to keep £10 of it and most likely have her IS reduced to allow for the rest, the only way your friend will benefit from the maintenance is when (or if) she goes to work then the whole amount will be hers