To ask how much child maintenance you receive.

[Sailingthroughtheweek]

I’m wondering where DC and I fit on the spectrum, just out of interest.

I receive £300 per month for one DC.
He lives 100 miles away and does no childcare at all, so that pays for breakfast/ after school clubs, holiday clubs and a bit towards her hobbies.

I’m very, very glad to be in my current position and not still married, so I’m not moaning at all, and also, I earn more than him so I don’t need more, but a £300 contribution to our DC seems low.

@GilbertsLuckySocks so on the one hand you’re jealous other mums get support and on the other you’re making digs that you did it all by yourself ?
Every child deserves support.

I’m a cynical old bastard but there’s no way I would’ve had kids with somebody who didn’t have a very good PAYE job that was part of the qualifying criteria. I think the child-support system is going to need a massive reform in light of the gig economy, for example, some people are doing very well out of it and under the current system some children would get right royally screwed.

£0 for 1 child. She has pairs of shoes more expensive than he's provided throughout her almost 14 years.
And I wouldn't mind but that was chased through CMS.

Assuming he earns 30k and he doesn't contribute to a pension he will have to pay 341 pounds per month for child maintenance (2 children with 2 nights. a week). With 1k in rent, he will have 659 pounds for everything else (utilities, food, council tax, travel, car payment, taking the children out, etc). It is unsustainable!

I have had a very occasional payment of £260 per month ( 2 children ). No overnights. Ex H and I have been separated/ divorced 4 years. I think I've been paid about 6 times in total. When he does pay he makes sure he tells the kids how fantastic he is and is etc..
I work full time, just about make ends meet and get zero help from the government. Ex H is an absolute joke, is self employed and spends all his money on booze and weed pretty much.

£50 a week which he gives to her (she's five) and asks her to give to me as it's "HER money" - even if we are in the same room...but he works cash in hand so I just accept it as there is no proof of earnings.

I get £300 pm for 3 DC and they are with me 3 quarters of the time

Mine just went up. I now get £21 pm, for 1 DC whom I have 100% of the time.

@Jessie75 I dated my ex and he had a degree and has got a good job. More well paid than when we first met in our early 20s. CMS is much more complicated than people not dating a "professional" as you are putting it or someone on PAYE. These men are deliberately fiddling their earnings. I have pursued a case against ex... and funnily enough we have had our yearly review and his earnings have shot back up! Because I'm taking him to court TWAT he is.

£9 per month for 2 DC.