Should NRP Outgoings be Taken into Account?

Cally_Smart

Yes,30% (they can take 40%!)of your wage is a lot to lose when the pwc has denied receiving CM as in our case.As we are in the situation we are in because the pwc is lying about the qc's being both at college perhaps the CSA will realise she is not being as honest as they credited her with at the beginning!! Tell me, why should we struggle to live a very basic life (no going out ,don't drink or smoke while she gets more income for doing 16 hours work & getting all the wtc,ctc,& ch/ben than my husband who works 37 hours a week in a stressful job? As tax credits are calculated on income & doesn't allow for the 30% of wage going to the pwc we don't get any! Some people are caught up in arrears because of the CSA mistakes. Even if /when we prove we have be treated very poorly by the CSA it's not helping us live now day to day is it ? Some people have to travel hundreds of miles to keep up the contact with their children.As 13Kent says you have to provide somewhere for the children to stay in a home big enough to house them( boys& girls so 2 separate rooms needed) at least we did until all this started & the pwc alienated them!!

FBaby

13Kent wrote: »

It may not seem much but on CSA1 payments can be 30% , and when there are other bills such as debts run up by the PWC, arrears - not because the NRP hasn't paid, but because the PWC has lied about payments and the CSA take her side, also joint loans that the NRP is paying off, the need to run a reliable car both to get to work and maintain contact with the children, and the need to have somewhere to live that will accommodate your children so that contact can be maintained, and the associated bills that come with those needs rather than being able to live in a bedsit or shared house, not to mention having to feed and clothe your children when you have contact as the PWC sends them only in the clothes they stand up in, there is not much left for anything else - barely a standard of living, which I guess is why often some NRP's choose to give up their jobs - not because they don't want to support their children but because they are struggling to live on what they have left and would be better off not working.

And for any such nrp, you will have a pwc whose nrp is having a great life, claiming to earn peanuts declaring mimimum income as self-employed, with the pwc receiving minimum maintenance whilst having to pay old joint debts and struggling to provide for her kids as a result...

This is why a straight percentage not taking everything else into account is the fairer method even if a number of one or the other are losing out from this system.