universal credit

katonia

just been looking at this and if you get child maintenance this will be used for benefit calculations :mad:

nannytone_2

until around 4 years ago, CM was always counted as income ( with only £20 being disregarded)
i dont understand why they changed it to be honest.
all it led to was 2 tiers of PWC.
those that got 'extra' and those that didn't.
both parents SHOUL support their offspring, but the current rules mean the state supports the offspring and the PWC has additional funds to use as they wish.
it isn't unrealistic to imagine someone receiving means tested benefits, receiving £80 or £90 a week more than their neighbour who is also on means tested benefit.
how is that fair?

zagfles

katonia wrote: »

just been looking at this and if you get child maintenance this will be used for benefit calculations :mad:

Really? Where did you read that? Wasn't my understanding.

NYM

Child Maintenance under Universal Credit

Is it this ?

Poppie68

nannytone wrote: »

until around 4 years ago, CM was always counted as income ( with only £20 being disregarded)
i dont understand why they changed it to be honest.
all it led to was 2 tiers of PWC.
those that got 'extra' and those that didn't.
both parents SHOUL support their offspring, but the current rules mean the state supports the offspring and the PWC has additional funds to use as they wish.
it isn't unrealistic to imagine someone receiving means tested benefits, receiving £80 or £90 a week more than their neighbour who is also on means tested benefit.
how is that fair?

One of the main reasons that the system changed was the unreliability of child support payments through the CSA's own systems failing to pay out on time, losing the payments in the system,payments going to the wrong PWC etc and the failure of a large number of NRP making the scheduled payments...These problems still exist and now they have the added headache of Direct Payments.