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missnic423
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My ex is self employed and cannot pay me full maintenance during the current crisis, can he get any help towards making his payments to me? He dropped his maintenance by 2/5ths in 2018 and now he tells me he’ll pay me what he can as soon as he can, this will mean I won’t be able to pay all my bills now without using savings, which will be gone in a matter of months!
Is it me or has this issue slipped through the government cracks?
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That's what savings are for - emergencies.
Nothing to do with the government - you presumably already get some support from the state.
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missnic423 said:My ex is self employed and cannot pay me full maintenance during the current crisis, can he get any help towards making his payments to me? He dropped his maintenance by 2/5ths in 2018 and now he tells me he’ll pay me what he can as soon as he can, this will mean I won’t be able to pay all my bills now without using savings, which will be gone in a matter of months!Is it me or has this issue slipped through the government cracks?
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This is what savings are for.
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Your ex should be receiving 80% of his self employed salary from the government scheme soon, so I'm guessing that when it arrives he will pay his child maintenance based on that figure.0
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Quite a few self employed don't qualify for any of the schemes that have been put in place0
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