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Child left education but Child Support payments still demanded
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jcarver007
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Looking for some advice on this. My son has left full time education and is now working. I have notified Child Support a number of times and each time it has been rejected. Yet I was under the assumption that when a child leaves full time education then there is no longer a requirement to pay the parent further. He has been out of education for just over 4 months.
Am I missing something?
Am I missing something?
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jcarver007 said:Looking for some advice on this. My son has left full time education and is now working. I have notified Child Support a number of times and each time it has been rejected. Yet I was under the assumption that when a child leaves full time education then there is no longer a requirement to pay the parent further. He has been out of education for just over 4 months.
Am I missing something?0 -
jcarver007 said:Looking for some advice on this. My son has left full time education and is now working. I have notified Child Support a number of times and each time it has been rejected. Yet I was under the assumption that when a child leaves full time education then there is no longer a requirement to pay the parent further. He has been out of education for just over 4 months.
Am I missing something?It depends when he left educationhttps://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-service/when-child-maintenance-stops#:~:text=Child%20maintenance%20stops%20on%2031,is%20linked%20to%20Child%20Benefit.
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MattMattMattUK said:jcarver007 said:Looking for some advice on this. My son has left full time education and is now working. I have notified Child Support a number of times and each time it has been rejected. Yet I was under the assumption that when a child leaves full time education then there is no longer a requirement to pay the parent further. He has been out of education for just over 4 months.
Am I missing something?
Hes 18.0 -
sheramber said:jcarver007 said:Looking for some advice on this. My son has left full time education and is now working. I have notified Child Support a number of times and each time it has been rejected. Yet I was under the assumption that when a child leaves full time education then there is no longer a requirement to pay the parent further. He has been out of education for just over 4 months.
Am I missing something?It depends when he left educationhttps://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-service/when-child-maintenance-stops#:~:text=Child%20maintenance%20stops%20on%2031,is%20linked%20to%20Child%20Benefit.0 -
The parent claiming child benefit needs to inform the HMRC child benefit service that the child has left education. The claim for both child benefit and child maintanance should have finished at the end of November.
I suspect that the other parent is still claiming child benefit (incorrectly), hence why you are still paying maintenance.0 -
jcarver007 said:Looking for some advice on this. My son has left full time education and is now working. I have notified Child Support a number of times and each time it has been rejected. Yet I was under the assumption that when a child leaves full time education then there is no longer a requirement to pay the parent further. He has been out of education for just over 4 months.
Am I missing something?0 -
saajan_12 said:jcarver007 said:Looking for some advice on this. My son has left full time education and is now working. I have notified Child Support a number of times and each time it has been rejected. Yet I was under the assumption that when a child leaves full time education then there is no longer a requirement to pay the parent further. He has been out of education for just over 4 months.
Am I missing something?
Its been rejected as they have gone on child benefit which she is still claiming. I have stopped paying child maintenance and have contacted child benefit to report the issue.
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