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I have a partner who has children from a previous relationship. One of these children I did not know about. my partner recently received a letter stating that he must pay nearly £100 a week for these children. Now, I'm not disputing the fact that he must pay for his children, however I am disputing why that should come from a tax credit award that has been allocated to my children (which are also his). It seems that the CSA have obtained details of how much we get down to the last penny, and have totted up this lovely sum based on classing our joint tax credits award as HIS income. My question is can they just forcibly take any amount they want from the tax credits, like they do from wages? Do wages and tax credits form the same income or do they ignore tax credits if he has declared a regular wage?
As I stated before I agree he should pay (out of His wages) and he used to have a family arrangement (payments to her bank and he took kids on holidays and days out, bought clothes and shoes when asked. She even went on a spending spree at the Disney store and charged it to him!) until the ex found out about me and then suddenly the CSA got involved.