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CSA stay at home dad payments?

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bunny101 · 07/02/2015 22:30

Can anyone give me info as the web is not helping............ If we become a stay at home dad family what will the csa take into account as income?

Hubby will have no as income.
Wife with work have her wages, wtc, ctc and child benefit payed to her.

From what i can see on the web csa will take the ctc into account and we will make a payment from that income.... am i right??

Before people start shooting me down here i'm trying to do the best for my family xx

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kilmuir · 07/02/2015 22:32

i hope they take into account total income

ThisFenceIsComfy · 07/02/2015 22:38

They take your household income into account

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bunny101 · 07/02/2015 22:52

The nrpp eanings are not taken into account... just unsure of child tax credit.. so we know where we stand financially.

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ThisFenceIsComfy · 07/02/2015 23:09

Oh I see, no your wife's income will not count towards csa calculations.

ThisFenceIsComfy · 07/02/2015 23:10

Your wife would be claiming the child tax credit though?

prh47bridge · 07/02/2015 23:18

This may well be regarded as deliberate deprivation of income in order to avoid child maintenance. If that is the case the maintenance calculation would continue to be based on his income as it was before he gave up work.

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bunny101 · 07/02/2015 23:20

Yes, thats why we are so unsure of what the payments if any will be.... there are posts on here to say that take money from ctc.. but don't know if these people are on the older system... our one is past 2003 xx

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bunny101 · 07/02/2015 23:23

No it will not as he has had a life changing injury (the csa can have his op reports if they like) and can no longer do his job.. so rather than us just be another family sitting on esa we are reversing rolls and i will go to work.

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bunny101 · 07/02/2015 23:25

So i'm sure anyone reading this will see we need to know what is in store for us, so we know we are going in the right direction with our new life x

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MrsCs · 07/02/2015 23:25

You don't have to be forced by CSA to pay, you could make a private arrangement with the mother of your children and still give up work.

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bunny101 · 07/02/2015 23:27

pwc wanted all though csa xx

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Viviennemary · 07/02/2015 23:33

There was another thread saying that the other person's income was not taken into consideration when calculating amount of maintenance due. But of course rather than deprive the children you could agree to make a voluntary contribution.

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bunny101 · 07/02/2015 23:37

One child 19, lives with boyfriend (unofficially) , drives and has own job.. not deprived at all.. he paid for the important years when she was a child x

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titchy · 08/02/2015 09:43

You're going to have to be clearer - is your dh only making maintenance payments for one child, who is now a 19 yo adult?

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bunny101 · 08/02/2015 10:29

Yes one adult child... the claim started after 2003 so not on the old system... she goes to collage 2 days a week so the pwc still gets child benefit. The csa say they have no way of finding out / checking when the child benefit stops, it's up the the pwc to tell them.... So we can see that will not happen and we have to think we will be paying until the september after the childs 20th birthday, witch was fine but his life has changed now xx

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MythicalKings · 08/02/2015 10:41

I thought it stopped at age 18. I don't think the father has any responsibility to a part time student capable of getting a part time job.

MissWimpyDimple · 08/02/2015 10:42

Sounds like you are trying to dodge payments. Nice.
Probably ok to drop the "xx" too, seeing as you are being far from loving!

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bunny101 · 08/02/2015 10:43

No it goes on for as long as child benefit is payed x

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MissWimpyDimple · 08/02/2015 10:44

But as far as I know, they don't take partners income into account at all. If his Child is 19, then you would probably be ok anyway. I do get that you are doing your best for your family, but you do have to think of his previous family too!

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bunny101 · 08/02/2015 10:47

No we are doing the best thing for OUR family... He paid until the child reached adulthood.. she is living with a sleeping with her boyfriend.. not really a child anymore :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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TickleMyTitsTillFriday · 08/02/2015 10:51

if a feckless Dad doesn't want to pay then there are lots of ways to get out of it. I know, because my poor dd has one of these for a 'dad' and he won't pay. I took great delight in reporting him to the HMRC for tax evasion. Oh to be a fly on the wall.
Pay the fucking child maintenance.

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bunny101 · 08/02/2015 10:51

We did think of her for many years.. she is now an adult, and we are the ones that need help with a huge change of circumstances. x

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MythicalKings · 08/02/2015 10:54

FFS people are being daft. She isn't a child, she's a nineteen year old woman.

HoppityVoosh · 08/02/2015 10:54

Your husbands family includes his child from a previous relationship. Not just YOUR family.

Your income won't be taken into account by CSA but IMO the right thing to do would be to have a private agreement to send £x a month until his maintenance obligation to his child finishes.

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bunny101 · 08/02/2015 10:54

Ticklemytits.. you seem to be very bitter with your choice of dad for your child.. maybe you should have picked a better one???

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