Closing child maintenance

[OhMyCherriePie]

I have a cms case open but my ex doesn’t have to pay anything as he is on benefits and in priority debt (this is the reason they have given me for years, he has never had to pay anything as he is always in debt and must be paying back £1 a week or something 🙄) there are arrears but they never amount to much due to it being benefits money (I was looking at someone’s else’s cms case and in the time his debt has got to £200 theirs was £6444, I know you shouldn’t compare but it’s just laughable how low it is) he is long term unemployed and unlikely to ever get a job he is on sickness benefits. I think he probably finds it’s funny how little the amount is and how he doesn’t even need to pay it so I wanted to close the case to not give him the satisfaction of sitting there laughing at me and thinking I need his £7. Has anyone closed the case and felt better for it? Whilst he is on benefits he will never have to pay the arrears so keeping it open for the arrears is pointless. Does any other single parent just not claim anything?

I closed the case with my ds's father. He dodged paying for years. By the time the CSA tracked him down my son was grown and I didn't need his money. I had to write a letter writing off the arrears and asked for the case to be closed.
I struggled for years raising my son and I take satisfaction that he can't claim to have helped

Thank you I think I’m going to do that now, I don’t need the maintenance and we get by without it, we will unlikely ever see a penny of it!

I keep my claim going and don't think about it. Occasionally they'll take 29quid out his benefits then he'll stop claiming them and cash in hand for a bit. I don't need or want his money but I find it keeps him on his toes and stops him getting a 'proper' job. Therefore keeping him in the gutter and away from me and the kids. (He is a convicted child abuser, I'm not just bitter).