Applied for Child Maintenance and got the email today that I am going to receive a whopping £3.50 per week for my child.

[Mumofacutie]

I am divorcing atm, and my ex is trying to make the whole situation a hell. He is a narcissist (won’t go into the details, but this is the reason I am separating from him)
I applied for the child maintenance through CMS. He is self-employed, and he declares a rough £2500 net profit. He is a full time taxi driver , and the amount I am about the get for my 5 yo daughter is ridiculous. (£3.50 per week) Just to add, he stopped looking after her, so I have to use school clubs as well more often. He is not buying her anything at all, including food. Is there anything I can do in this situation at all?

Should be straightforward then for you to report to HMRC

Youve presumably known and benefited from this tax fraud for years. Now you are going to suffer the consequences unless you report him as you should have done when first aware

Most taxi drivers now aren’t paid In cash

Right. So this is something I was not aware of him doing before. When I saw the amounts on CMS, I was shocked and fuming. We do not have and never ever had any joint accounts whatsoever. So should I report straight to HMRC?

This is the thing. I dont know if I am allowed to write it on here, but he works as an U…r driver… all the income should be automatically get to HMRC.

There's very little you can do. People on here will tell you to report it but the reality is HMRC rarely investigate these cases. My daughter's dad pays £6.50 a week and is in £600 arrears. He's a SE plumber and I've sent all the evidence but nothing changes.

That is incorrect
They will investigate
and certainly given this op will presumably have extensive evidence

Sorry? You had no idea he was declaring £2500 a year in profit?

Yes.

You will be name to demonstrate him paying bills? Mortgage? Holidays etc? Over many years?

Well its been 2 years since the report and they haven't investigated yet.

How do you know? They wouldn’t tell you

And perhaps they have investigated but haven’t found grounds

He has probably dropped his hours and told them his circumstances have changed that way they will only take into account what he is earning now not previously the thing is they do reviews annually and his p60 won't match with his previously declared earnings so they will up it he will then drop his hours again so they drop it again

Im genuinely not sure you can do anything about it though

I mean we are in a shared ownership (selling the house atm), and he pays the mortgage part. With a £2500 yearly net profit, he clearly would not be able to cover a close to £1000 / month mortgage payment, right? I have proof of this as my name is on the mortgage, too.

And surly you have proof of so much!

Has he never contributed towards holidays? The car? Bills?

If he pays the mortgage then you shoukd get universal credit to pay for rent unless you have savings or a big salary?

Yes, I do have proof of these. Most of these. Obviously the mortgage payment and some of the bills as well.

it’s £3.50 more than me and I have 3 kids 🤣

you are lucky he’s paying the mortgage part of the SO he’s not actually obliged to since he isn’t living there….

the CMS is shit even if you report him they will do f all no matter what evidence you send them

You have my sympathies. I get nothing at all for 2 dc. Had a row by text with my ex husband earlier this week who said, and I quote “I just pay what child maintenance the CMS tell me to”. Which is nothing. But he thinks that’s acceptable. Apparently he earns £5000 a year and is using his divorce settlement to pay his rent 🤦‍♀️

Profit from a company and the income her derives from the company are very different things.

He is also covering the mortgage payment of £1000 pm which is a household contribution. Does he live there ?

Maybe this is offsetting the CMS entitlement.

Won’t be included in any CMS calculations

Well get reporting then

All i can say is well done for getting more because my offer was 75p a week for a man that still has the same full time job for a big company he had 15 years ago when I applied. Apparently his debts were more important. Anyway I scrunched the letter up didn't want a penny after that and brought son up well on my own.

I’ve reported, and reported and reported! Got one payment and never seen anything since! CMS is an absolute joke.

@Rogerthat14 no but op ex could simply stop paying mortgage or reduce what he pays if his cms went up do op would be no better off

£2500 a year?