csa grrrrrr

his_wife

Oh well, for all you lucky people whose "children" turned 19 from sept onwards, good news!!!! the csa is raised to 20 as from december the tenth. It is applicable to all "children" under 20 including our lot who left the system from sept. Great news eh!!!!

Cally_Smart

Disastrous for those parents that had court orders to sell the house when child left school or full time education at 19 and have taken on new financial commitments.They will still have to meet CSA payments & wait longer to get their share of the marital home they have been waiting until the children had grown up & put their life on hold for.

jonesMUFCforever

Unless the resident parent gets child benefit how will they apply these new rules?

his_wife

it would apply to "children" who are in full time education jones, reaching certain criteria, so it would only apply to those who are still entitled to child benefit. To say im am gutted is an understatement!!

Dissillusioned

Its shocking,it started at 16,now its 20.How long before its decided its 21,22,23.....
Just to squeeze more money out of people.I thought it was child,not adult "suppport".What a joke!
And the old proverb springs to mind-put up with it-get more of it!

NotSuchASmugMarriedNow

This makes perfect sense to me.

When the CSA was first established many people left school at 16 or 18 and got good(ish) jobs.

The jobs market has changed drastically since then and it's now virtually impossible to get a job that pays enough money to live on without having some kind of professional training. Young people have no choice but to stay in education for longer. Education doesn't pay so those people will have to have child maintenance/tax credits/child benefit to live on.

I'm a bit stumped really as to what people who object to this think that the child is going to live on if they don't pay?

Dissillusioned

The "child" is actually an adult at these ages,so they should do what people traditionally do in these situations to support themselves,part time work! My main beef is the age seems to rise and rise and rise,meaning were having to support adults for longer and longer! How long till we are supporting 25 year olds! Its never ending!

his_wife

I am glad it makes perfect sense to you not such a smug ,,,, however, my son, put hisself through college, he worked along side it,,,, my daughter had to come out of college we couldnt afford to send her. My sd is still doing a first year course three years on, since she has no intentions of working, she is legally classed as an adult, but gets the same benefits as a child, and we have to pay for the privelidge.

If she was in uni, we would give her money to help her, however, it would be a choice, our choice, not the government dictating. Plus my biggest grievance is the money goes to the pwc,,,,the so called 19 yr old child doesnt see any of the money.

Yes her mum would still have bills to pay, but she would have to pay them anyway whether the sd lived their or not.

gingergee

Does uni count as full time education? or is it not as its further ed? x

PreludeForTimeFeelers

Uni doesn't count, it's generally college courses.

Sensemaya

his_wife wrote: »

Oh well, for all you lucky people whose "children" turned 19 from sept onwards, good news!!!! the csa is raised to 20 as from december the tenth. It is applicable to all "children" under 20 including our lot who left the system from sept. Great news eh!!!!

I've been told the' child' must be aged 17 in December. If aged 18 they don't qualify.

Can anyone confirm this?