Age that Child Maintenence stops

Harris1234

CSA is payable until the August after their 19th Birthday...

What happens if their birthday is in August do you have to pay until the following August or on the first week of September following their 19th birthday?

Gutted for my daughter, she has just failed all her GCSE's, she works on a Saturday in a hair salon and they offered her an apprenticeship, I believe the PWC talked her out of this because she knows the impact it would have had on her benefits and child maintenance.

DUTR

Harris1234 wrote: »

CSA is payable until the August after their 19th Birthday...

What happens if their birthday is in August do you have to pay until the following August or on the first week of September following their 19th birthday?

Gutted for my daughter, she has just failed all her GCSE's, she works on a Saturday in a hair salon and they offered her an apprenticeship, I believe the PWC talked her out of this because she knows the impact it would have had on her benefits and child maintenance.

Don't do the thinking for others, God gave them a brain to think for themselves.
If she failed her exams you as an adult know it is best to get some certified education, an apprenteceship will still require going onto further education and those courses require entry level education passes.

Anyways once child benefit stops, so does your csa liability, if she is of that age you should already be used to paying it and not missing the money, when mine stops I will just add the amount to my pension scheme.

HappyMJ

Harris1234 wrote: »

CSA is payable until the August after their 19th Birthday...

What happens if their birthday is in August do you have to pay until the following August or on the first week of September following their 19th birthday?

Gutted for my daughter, she has just failed all her GCSE's, she works on a Saturday in a hair salon and they offered her an apprenticeship, I believe the PWC talked her out of this because she knows the impact it would have had on her benefits and child maintenance.

She'll need to be doing a qualifying course for the parent to be entitled to child benefit. If she's not doing a qualifying course then no child benefit is payable and no child maintenance is due.

Your last payment is 31st August or before.

Harris1234

My plan is to do the same and add it to my pension, I just begrudge paying £500 a month to PWC which she then spends on herself and £100 hair cuts when she does not have our daughters best interests at heart and told me to stop 'hassling' my daughter over her exams and homework and what she wants to do at college. Sorry my original post was a simple post about the age at which it ends and I now sound very bitter.

DUTR

Harris1234 wrote: »

My plan is to do the same and add it to my pension, I just begrudge paying £500 a month to PWC which she then spends on herself and £100 hair cuts when she does not have our daughters best interests at heart and told me to stop 'hassling' my daughter over her exams and homework and what she wants to do at college. Sorry my original post was a simple post about the age at which it ends and I now sound very bitter.

You can take solace that there will come a day when it stops, it will feel like you have had a 20% pay rise without having to work an extra hour.
As for the hassling?.... there is a saying that those that won't listen will feel, so they will have to find out the hard way, when she perhaps will recognise when it is too late to make a quck amend.

shoe*diva79

Harris1234 wrote: »

My plan is to do the same and add it to my pension, I just begrudge paying £500 a month to PWC which she then spends on herself and £100 hair cuts when she does not have our daughters best interests at heart and told me to stop 'hassling' my daughter over her exams and homework and what she wants to do at college. Sorry my original post was a simple post about the age at which it ends and I now sound very bitter.

I just want to highlight then I am sure the £500 you pay goes a long way to help your daughter. Unless of course she lives on the street, has no food, no hot clean water, no toiletries, no clothing, has never been on a school trip or a fellow child's birthday party, does not have her hair cut, never gets taken anywhere in a car or needs bus fare... etc etc etc

I have a almost 17 year old daughter and I can assure you, with what would be her share of the household bills/food shop and all the other stuff I pay for like buses and running her around etc, it comes in at a hefty sum.

You do sound very bitter.

In addition, an apprenticeship could be a qualifying course for CB to continue and if your daughter has failed maths and english then she will be needing to retake them at college, so again, CB and therefore CM continue.

DUTR

shoe*diva79 wrote: »

I just want to highlight then I am sure the £500 you pay goes a long way to help your daughter. Unless of course she lives on the street, has no food, no hot clean water, no toiletries, no clothing, has never been on a school trip or a fellow child's birthday party, does not have her hair cut, never gets taken anywhere in a car or needs bus fare... etc etc etc

I have a almost 17 year old daughter and I can assure you, with what would be her share of the household bills/food shop and all the other stuff I pay for like buses and running her around etc, it comes in at a hefty sum.

You do sound very bitter.

In addition, an apprenticeship could be a qualifying course for CB to continue and if your daughter has failed maths and english then she will be needing to retake them at college, so again, CB and therefore CM continue.

I'd say the OP is dissapointed that the contribution may not be used to the best options, it's when you get feedback like "can't afford the bus fares to college so may drop out" etc.

shoe*diva79

DUTR wrote: »

I'd say the OP is dissapointed that the contribution may not be used to the best options, it's when you get feedback like "can't afford the bus fares to college so may drop out" etc.

He hasn't mentioned anything about his daughter being unable to get to college, but took the time to mention £100 haircuts that his ex has.

Like I said in my original post, I am sure most people, NRP and PWC alike would be very shocked to see how much a 16-18 year old actually costs on a month to month basis.

DUTR

shoe*diva79 wrote: »

He hasn't mentioned anything about his daughter being unable to get to college, but took the time to mention £100 haircuts that his ex has.

Like I said in my original post, I am sure most people, NRP and PWC alike would be very shocked to see how much a 16-18 year old actually costs on a month to month basis.

Well yes we do have a good idea, as a NRP I am on about the feedback from my case of can't afford the bus fare to college, yet the PWC can get plenty of tattoo's , it's about priorities. As mentioned the solace comes that in the not too distant future the monies will stop coming in and then what?......
Trying to find a job with weak qualifications in a competitive market place and of course if they fail it's all the NRP's fault.

shoe*diva79

DUTR wrote: »

Well yes we do have a good idea, as a NRP I am on about the feedback from my case of can't afford the bus fare to college, yet the PWC can get plenty of tattoo's , it's about priorities. As mentioned the solace comes that in the not too distant future the monies will stop coming in and then what?......
Trying to find a job with weak qualifications in a competitive market place and of course if they fail it's all the NRP's fault.

I think a very small minority of PWC would feel that way. When child maintenance/child related benefits stop in regard for my daughter she will then have to contribute financially towards the household out of her wages. I shall not be able to 100% cover the cost of her on my own and I know for a fact their her father will refuse to continue to share any financial burden.

DUTR

shoe*diva79 wrote: »

I think a very small minority of PWC would feel that way. When child maintenance/child related benefits stop in regard for my daughter she will then have to contribute financially towards the household out of her wages. I shall not be able to 100% cover the cost of her on my own and I know for a fact their her father will refuse to continue to share any financial burden.

I agree (or hope) it's a minority that behave that way.
Sadly though some do and that appears to be the case of the OP and many others I know of.