To ask this about child maintenance

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Trying to keep this as unemotive as possible and have changed my user name so I can share responses with my ex spouse.

If someone pays child maintenance, is it expected that a chunk of this money be used by the resident parent to pay towards household bills (e.g. gas, electricity, water, rent not covered by housing benefit, food). Or is it OK for it to be spent towards some of these bills and not others?

Not going to say here whether I am the resident or non resident parent as I don't want to affect replies one way or the other

330 a month is fuck all really.

I retrained and work freelance. My mental health has improved considerably since divorce. I am picking up work and it's growing, and I hope it'll continue to grow into full time work.

Not the point of the tread, but whether £330 is "fuck all really" depends on the bigger picture.
How often the NRP has the DC, whether they are also paying the higher mortgage/rent/bills associated with providing their child with a bedroom at their home, whether the DC comes with a suitcase or has everything they need at the NRPs home etc etc etc.
For a properly involved and committed NRP, the CM is certainly not the beginning and end of what they pay for their child.

£330 would be a lot to me but then I get 0 😅