How do i know

poppet2014

hi there.
CSA is coming to a close and a private agreement will be set up (i hope).

Please can someone guide me in the right direction on how i would find out on my childs education status as the Ex and I are not talking and this information would not be given to me by her.

As a NRP, am i entitled to contact CB to ask for this information and would it be provided. Please note i dont know my childs address school etc as she moved away with informing me.

Cheers

CakeCrusader

Hi, poppet. If she wants a private arrangement then you could do with telling her/writing to her to let her know that she needs to provide proof that your child is still in school. The school will give her a letter if this helps. I doubt the CB office will give you this information due to data protection.

HappyMJ

poppet2014 wrote: »

hi there.
CSA is coming to a close and a private agreement will be set up (i hope).

Please can someone guide me in the right direction on how i would find out on my childs education status as the Ex and I are not talking and this information would not be given to me by her.

As a NRP, am i entitled to contact CB to ask for this information and would it be provided. Please note i dont know my childs address school etc as she moved away with informing me.

Cheers

No you can't contact CB.

With no proof provided you would have to assume the child is still in school and pay until the end of August after the child turns 18 and would have completed A Levels then you would stop unless the receiving parent can prove the child is still in school doing a non-advanced level of education and then the payment continues for another year.

If no proof is provided save the money anyway and after a year you're free to spend it.

If you want to contact your child there are ways and means of getting in contact. Nearly every teenage child is on Facebook so try adding your child on there and making contact. You might need to wait until they are 18.

poppet2014

Thanks everyone.

Jondav, if you have any sucess please let me know...

Happy MJ, Great idea!!

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Floxxie

"Child maintenance payments usually stop when the child reaches 16 (or 20 if they’re in full-time education up to A-level or equivalent)."

I thought it was 19, but this is from the gov.uk site.

13Kent

Maybe if the PWC won't provide proof that the child is in education then you can request an assessment yourself via the CMS - we asked for the CSA to do a Child Benefit check when we were unsure if we should still be paying, and it turned out that my husband's liability had ended as CB was no longer being paid. - If the child is still in education then CB will still be paid and the CSA used this as a marker to determine whether maintenance was still payable.