To ask how much child maintenance you receive

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Just that and has it increased to take the cost of living into consideration?

£0. I haven't had anything for about 9 years now.

Its a percentage of wages. It can't take into account cost of living as everyones costs have gone up.

Sweet FA in 17 years.

The exact amount calculated by CMS and no more. I know this is much, much more support than many children receive from their NRP, but it still feels miserly to me, to calculate support to the penny as he does. My main career-related goal is to earn enough to not depend on it, as I'm always afraid it will suddenly stop one day, and we need it to pay for childcare.

Zero

I used to get £1000 a month for 3 kids this was 10 years ago.

Zero. England needs to fix its child maintenance system!! I live in Los Angeles now and I don't know anybody who's getting zero. They all get something because the non-resident parent gets their wages garnished and/or driver license taken away if they don't pay. And they really do follow up and enforce the rulings.

Would you expect it to go up with COL? and how much by?

How would that work when the NRP costs will also have gone up? Are they expected to swallow their own increases and cover the RP’s?

Nothing for years

Never got a penny.

£500 many years ago for 2 children. Court Order.

I think the child maintenance system in the UK is fine except for the fucking nonsense about not being able to make self employed parents pay - thats just bizzare in this day and age.

Anyway, I wouldn't expect it to increase due to the COL no because it's based on a percentage of income.

£100 a month, (after a lot of convincing)

£220 a month, one child. Just done as a bank transfer on payday, agreed between us as a percentage from his old job, don’t know what he earns now but I don’t feel any need to increase maintenance.

£100

£600

About £100 a month less than I should get. And he says he can't really afford that now due to COL.

I don’t understand why it isn’t enforced.

I didn’t ask my Ex for maintenance as I didn’t want anything to do with him, he was an abusive twat.

My son went to live with him at 15 and guess what, Ex went straight to CMS, this was after he hadn’t paid me a penny since DS was 10 years old. For five years I’d done bank work and not been able to afford more than a weekend away while I met every cost of what DS did in life.

CMS look at your prior year earnings and calculate a sum due.

In my case it was almost double the £300 I had agreed to pay before their involvement which is ridiculous, a 15 year old does not cost £600 a month. I should know, he’d lived with me all his life.

My Ex is a spiteful bastard.

So why don’t these absent parents pay?

Nothing

Like many others, I didn't receive a penny and DD is an adult now.

So you're complaining about having to pay?

Zero its supposed to be £180 he quit his job when they told him

I receive precisely what CMS says I should receive. ExH won’t pay a penny more, down to not providing clothes when the children are with him and needing me to make a packed lunch for the Monday he returns them after his weekend.

Fortunately ExH is quite a high earner but nothing has changed with the Cost of Living crisis. We’ve just had to drop ballet, etc.

I'm absolutely not thrilled after five years of receiving ZERO when Ex is a higher earner than me, but that wasn't the point of my post if you actually read it.

No you said you didn't ask for it. Therefore didn't use cms.