ex army and child support

[LittleBabyLucas]

Hi all not sure this is the right place to post

My ex is an army vet.

He receives a war pension of £233 a month
Service pension of £899 a month
Esa of £70 a week
Personal independent payment amount unknown.

He has 3 children in total.

I've just received a payment schedule from the cms. Our son is awarded £8.50 a month.

Surely this can't be right?

I've asked for a variation which has been declined. This is now going for review.

Can anyone shed some light on how he can get away with this?

His pensions don't count as income for maintenance purposes

Standard army pension does I know benefits and war pension don't but the offer of £8.50 a month is ridiculous consideribg he's just bought himself a £37k Volvo xv90 and a £200 tattoo

The significant thing here is the war pension. Assuming this is War Disablement Pension he has to pay the flat rate which is currently £7 per week regardless of the number of children involved and regardless of his other income. For three children that works out at around £10 per child per month. If your child spends one night per week with him on average this would be reduced by one seventh which gives us around £8.50 per month. So I'm sorry but it sounds like the calculation is correct.

He only sees him at the contact centre for an hour every 2 weeks

Depending on when your case was assessed it may be that an earlier flat rate was used. But even if the current flat rate is used I believe you are only entitled to around £10 per month. So I'm afraid I don't think you will get any significant increase. Sorry.

Thanks for all your help why Cms couldn't just tell me that I have no idea!