my ex - the paying parent - has conveniently ‘lost’ his job with no notice and is now on benefits. He is blatantly working cash in hand - had social media accounts for his unregistered posting daily photos etc about works he was doing on the daily. He has now taken them all down. He is literally rubbing in my face he is earning by redecorating his place, expensive meals out, just generally throwing the money around. None of which he was doing before he ‘lost’ his job! All the while CMS have put him on a NIL payment plan! He is nearly £2000 in arrears once again from constant missing or short payments, before they put him on NIL payments. We only started with CMS February 2024. Nearly went wage deduction 3 times but talked his way out of it last minute!
My question is, has anyone successfully managed to get CMS to investigate cash in hand? I know I can ask for an additional income variation, but do they actually request bank statements etc? He must be paying it in as the benefits he would get wouldn’t cover anything. I just don’t know how to best approach this although I feel like it’s a list cause!
Im just tired of the fact I’ve been having to call them multiple times a month for a year and a half and yet he seems to always get away with not paying what he should, and now nothing whilst I’m budgeting like my life depends on it so my boys don’t feel the difference! So far 2 months on NIL payment plan and he is living his best life!
sorry for the long post - from one very tired and broken boy mama 💙💙