Is it worth it for £2.90?

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My ex is a twat.

Absolute nightmare in maintenance. Always late and he has arrears. I went through cms and he's still no better.

He never pays on time - always 1 or 2 days late and it's always £2.90 per week less than it should be.

Yesterday I asked him yet again to pay and pay the correct amount. He replied with laughing emojis and said he would pay.

Today he has paid but not the right amount.

£2.90 doesn't make much difference to our daughter but equally if you added it up in a year it's £150ish that is missed.

Would you go back to cms and tell them he's not paying the correct amount?

Not sure I can handle the abusive messages I would get for doing it.

I feel I'm being petty but this man is so controlling it's unreal.

Block him. Contact through official channels only.

Enjoy your weekly ‘fuck you’ coffee.

CMS can do an attachment to his earnings so you don't have to go through this with him. He would be then answerable to them for non payments, not you.

First you will need to let them know what he's been doing, and I think keep them updated. Give them a call. X

It’s the extra admin costs of doing it that way though which is a waste for the thousands of decent parents who manage to pay what they should without any problems. I think option is there where they do default although not sure on the mechanics of how it all works

The issue is he is self employed so it's difficult, if he was employed they can take it directly out of his wages (at a push I think) but self employed makes it much harder.

Of course it also means by me pushing it, he will probably declare less earnings next year as punishment too.

I can't win.

Yeah he’s doing it purposely to get the opportunity to call you a petty scrounger etc. don’t rise to it, ignore his messages and do it all through proper channels

Does it affect someone’s credit score if they don’t pay / underpay CM?

Because it should. And not difficult to implement, I wouldn’t have thought

I don't know if this is any help. My exH had to pay arrears(CSA back then). He paid it off. It took him until our dd was 23.

Absolutely chase him through the agency! He will be paying maintenance arrears past the dc age cut off. Twat.
I advise never mention it to him. I swear they get a thrill from imagining the power they hold over you.

By the by, my dd barely sees her dad now. Directly because of the petty miserly way he treated me/us. She remembers.

Use collect and pay, report his underpaying and the CMS can set it up for you. It costs him an extra 20% and you 4%.
https://www.gov.uk/child-maintenance-service/payments

We were doing collect and pay - this is when he actually started paying me directly again so it went back to direct pay.

Now he's at it again....off back to collect and pay we go 🙄

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Annoying that you have to pay 4% for this but it sounds easiest