CSA for step child

[helmaria]

Now my ex has a step child living with him, does this lessen my csa payments?

Do you mean carers who are called carers because they get CA or all carers (none professionally employed)

I'm sorry sock, I don't understand your question about if the child is disabled?

Yes I meant carers as in carers who care full time for an adult or child with disabilities and receive or are entitled to carers allowance

Hmm, just a point about getting a same day decision for HB etc

My exp royally fucked my rent last year by several times not paying the CM and not letting me know in advance and as CM was due in the day my rent was due out (he wouldnt pay it earlier and i couldnt change rent date) it meant my rent didnt go and if it did i incurred charges from the bank for being overdrawn (there seemed no rhyme or reason for why they sometimes paid and sometimes didnt). When i was working i couldnt check my bank account and often wouldnt know it hadnt been paid til that evening, housing office closed til next day so if i had needed to apply for CoC then it would be next day at earliest, if CM due in on fri, sometimes didnt show until monday so if it wasnt coming i wouldnt know till 3 days later! Mightnt seem a lot but when your letting agent charges £7 per day late fee it adds the fuck up! But hey, exp really needed that car/new house/engagement ring/night out/stag do.

I'm sorry sock, I don't understand your question about if the child is disabled?

If a disabled parent is understood to quite rightly need more money then should a none disabled NRP pay more for a disabled child?

Yes I meant carers as in carers who care full time for an adult or child with disabilities and receive or are entitled to carers allowance

That's not very well thought out, plenty of carers meet the caring for 35+ hours a week but if they work 15 and a half hours at nmw or higher then the gov has no idea that they are carers.

I'm a carer but nobody would know that I have no way of proving I'm a carer,I actually care for 4 disabled people for over 35 hours a week and 1 for just under (its just under because I personally fund them being resident elsewhere as they prefer it).

For the government to know and accept that you are a carer you have to be caring for over 35 hours a week AND earn £100pw or less a week

It's not that I meant a disabled nrp needs more money than a non disabled nrp, but that if a nrp is severely disabled and unable to work then they might not physically be able to pay cm even if they wanted to

The same with a nrp being a carer. If someone is a full time carer, recieving carers allowance and is unable to work then they would be unable to pay cm

In either of those cases if a nrp was disabled or a carer but they were able to work then they should pay cm at the normal rates. I'm just discussing those cases when someone is totally unable to work and so can't pay cm

Sock - DS2 & DS3's Dad has this - he works FT but STILL cares for me and the DC's 35 hrs+ a week. They don't give a crap though!

If a DC was disabled, then if course there should be a variation for additional maintenance - it costs more to support a DC with disabilities.

Just as more of the RP's income goes on supporting a DC with disabilities, so should more of an NRP's income...

Stands to reason, really.

(Says the Carer with disabilities who is caring for 4 DC's with disabilities. I don't currently claim CA because although DS3 gets DLA and DD and DS2 SHOULD but I don't have the energy for continuous renewals, I would lose my FSM's...)

DS2 & DS3's Dad only pays CSA level maintenance, but he helps out with care needs 35hrs+ per week despite working FT.

Which is probably why Frogs pissed me off so much - my ex manages, he can't drive, he lives over an hour away by bus, he works FT, pays CSA lvl maintenance, and STILL has the DC's EOW, and comes up 3/4 evenings a week to help out.

What's HER partner's excuse? Sheer laziness?!

It's 15% for 1 child 20% for 2 or more anymore than the set % means its also including arrears

But In All fairness that's actually the minimum he should be paying but the maximum that she can force him to pay.

Maybe it would have been sensible to work out those figures before making a choice that put you both in this position n the first place. And your figures are actually incorrect.

Sorry?

CSA doesn't calculate anymore, not sure what you mean by that.

They have 4 rates

Nil. Flat,basic and reduced rate.

Basic (for those earning more than £200 a week) is 15% for 1 child 20% for 2 and now 25% for 3+

Apologies I missed the net income part.

Regardless, I am not trying to have a go but did you not look at the figures prior to moving in?

Is he especially poor?

Are you getting all benefits your entitled to turn2us is helpful with this.