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To think CSA should leave our tax credits alone.

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santascupcakes · 08/01/2011 18:07

Dh lost his job and he was previously paying £60 via CSA a week to ex.

Told CSA and they asked about our tax credits. I work and we get £198 which includes tax credits for 4 children, working tax and disability element for 2 children.

They said thats OK you can now pay us £27 a week!! Shock

How is that right. She must get her own tax credits!!

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StewieGriffinsMom · 08/01/2011 18:13

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lifeinagoldfishbowl · 08/01/2011 18:15

I think it's fair

They have adjusted the cost to within your means.

Think of EXP who now also has to rejuggle finances by being £33 down.

waitwhat · 08/01/2011 18:16

£27 seems reasonable a week. She may get her own tax credits but that doesn't mean you husband should stop providing for his kids

waitwhat · 08/01/2011 18:17
  • Your husband not you husband, whoops
narkypuffin · 08/01/2011 18:18

She might well get her own tax credits. Your DH as the non resident parent needs to make a contribution though. Sounds fair to me.

expatinscotland · 08/01/2011 18:19

Sounds fair to me.

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santascupcakes · 08/01/2011 18:25

I have an injuction against her and she has been cautioned by the police for threats she has made and stalking our family.

We are having to pay for a lengthy court case to get access to the child because of the injunction.

My children will now suffer. The disability element helps me greatly in caring for my children.

On top of that we are a wage down and still have bills to meet.

The CSA do not means test her at all but by using tax credits they really are creating child poverty which is precisley what the tax credit system was set up to avoid.

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FabbyChic · 08/01/2011 18:27

It is not the ex partner who will pay it is the OP who will pay out of her own tax credits.

That is what she is asking about, he has no income now so the money comes from what she already got for herself and her own children.

FabbyChic · 08/01/2011 18:28

Your tax credits should now increase though if his money has gone down or is non existent.

waitwhat · 08/01/2011 18:28

Just because you dont like her doesn't mean you husband shouldn't help with there up keep

He helped make the kids so why shoulder he pay for them?..Why are Your kids more important than his?

FabbyChic · 08/01/2011 18:28

OP you can also apply for DLA carers allowance for your child/children are you?

emmyloulou · 08/01/2011 18:28

They won't have taken the diability amount or benefit into their calculations.

FabbyChic · 08/01/2011 18:31

waitwhat

The ex partner no now has no income! If he was single and on benefits the ex would get £5.00 a week. Why should his new partner have to pay and her children suffer I dont understand that mentality.

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santascupcakes · 08/01/2011 18:32

I started working when he lost his job, (old work took me back)

Emmy, they did take the disability into account too.

Fabby, we are looking into carers but it will not be enough to pay the bills.

DH is looking for another job asap.

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narkypuffin · 08/01/2011 18:32

Won't your DH get JSA?

StewieGriffinsMom · 08/01/2011 18:34

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waitwhat · 08/01/2011 18:35

Because she married him and surely consider his kids as part of the family?

When she married him it stooped being HER money and became THEIR money.

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santascupcakes · 08/01/2011 18:35

He could get JSA I think and then CSA would only take £5.

We have not claimed it as only one of us can work at a time, due to circumstances with kids.

Better if he does as he can earn more money!

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santascupcakes · 08/01/2011 18:36

Just to clarify, We did not find out about this child until all of our children had been born bar the youngest.

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santascupcakes · 08/01/2011 18:37

But I do not think that matters, I still don't think it is right to take from money allocated to my children.

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Sassybeast · 08/01/2011 18:37

But your tax credits will have increased as a result of him losing his job ? So surely it is fair to use that increase to replace the maintenance?

FabbyChic · 08/01/2011 18:37

waitwhat

they do not consider her when they work out the CSA. They consider his first child first.

He cannot claim JSA if they are a couple and live under the same roof.

One set of chilren should not suffer for the sake of others.

Specifically when they are disabled.

Op

If you are not married tell your partner to move out, harsh I know but until he gets a job it would be the best option financially he could then claim JSA and the ex would get £5.00 per week, your money would not be touched.

When he gets a job again he can move back in.

I know its not the right way, but it may be the only way.

narkypuffin · 08/01/2011 18:38

I'd claim. He only needs to be actively seeking work. He is. As long as you/someone else can be with the children while he goes to the job centre once a week and he applies for jobs that's fine.

lifeinagoldfishbowl · 08/01/2011 18:38

FabbyChic Because the OP took on her DH knowing that he/they would need to support his children from a previous expartner.

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