CSA payments

[daffidazey]

My ex husband currently pays �100 per month for our 7 & 4 year old. When we split I went onto income support and they took most of that money off so it was pointless chasing him for more. Now I am off income support and earning, should he be paying more? If so has anyone any idea how much? I have looked at the CSA calculator thing but I need to calculate his net weekly income and I don't know how much that is. I know he earns �22,000 a year before tax and NI deductions. Can anyone help?

[redcrx]

i thought that if he paid more than your benefits you got the difference?

i think he would be earning �300-�320 a week to total �22k

[daffidazey]

Basically, they take what he is paying you each week off of your income support. At the time he was being very difficult and it was easier to agree a lower amount with him as income support would be more reliable than payments from him.

[pink-kittens]

I think �100 pw is a pretty fair deal TBH

After all, as a working single parent you will be claiming tax credits who don't take into account any maintenance payments you get when working out your claim.

Plus you will entitled to childcare payments of 80%

[daffidazey]

So would I if it was �100 per week! But it is �100 per month between the 2 children!

[pink-kittens]

LOL, sorry
Just saw I had mis read that

If you are no longer claiming IS or any other benefit apart from TC and WTC, then I would ask the CSA to re-assess your claim. Don;t get your hopes up too high for getting any extra though. Took me 11 years to get anything form my ex and then I had to push the CSA to get anything from him by asking them for compensation for mis administration of my account - 6 months later I had a rather large lump sum in my bank acc :)

Good luck!

[themas]

Yes - his net would be about �320 per week. For 2 children the CSA rule is for him to pay about 20% of net, but possibly only after certain deductions. I assume the calculator you mention gives you details of these.

[Euge Griffin]

he will pay %20 of his net income per month minus one seventh for every night of the week that he has them regardless of any other income you get.

[daffidazey]

Thanks for your answers. Daffi x

[trevt0m]

money grabbing cow he gets �300 and you want �100+ what does he live on women like you make me sick all for what you can get what do you want more money for so you can go out on saturday as well as friday nights if i was him you would get **** all money grabbers eh

[Italie]

Typical bl**dy selfish man eh Trevt0m? Try reading it right. Its �100 PER MONTH she is receiving. That's �12.50 per child per week!! Not a helluva lot is it?? How much of her wages do you think she is spending on her kids?? MOST, IF NOT ALL OF IT!!! not to mention ALL of time outside working hours PLUS it's more than likely they have split up because of him anyway.......... Couldnt grow up, couldnt keep it in his trousers, needed his mummy........ These men who think they can provide sperm and then disappear leaving the woman to bring up the kids while moaning about how much money they are having to provide FOR THEIR OWN KIDS make me sick.

[daffidazey]

Try learning to read, trevt0m!! Like i said, he gets �22,000 a year and his kids get �100 a month between them. I do not go out on either Friday or Saturday nights either, your assumptions of me are way off the mark! Do you think it is fair that he is able to have children, then when he loses interest, is able to walk away and not pay anything towards them?
Thankyou, Italie. Daffi x

[bigmamma]

Gosh daffi , that's only �50 for each child per month , I don't know anything about child maintenance though I admit .:-)
xxxxx

[unrulyjulie]

well said italie!!!! How ignorant you are trevt0m! You do not know the circumstances of Daffis case so you are so wrong to comment in the way you did and to call her a cow, well, you bitter there? wonder why? has it happened to you, you been stung ? I can see why if thats how you speak to women!

Daffi the money he's giving you now is paltry! i get �80.00 per month for one child which is still a small amount compared to what some get.

[trevt0m]

you women only want 1 thing thats money dont say he should of kept it in his pants you lot should keep your nickers on if you dont want the man you should not want his money sounds to me good riddance �100 a month why would you want anything hes no good to live with but ok to keep putting money your way your having a laugh if my kids want some thing i buy it not give the mum the money so she can go out on the **** so up yours money grabbers

[daffidazey]

My ex husband and I split up and he decided he no longer wants anything to do with our children. So because of that I am supposed to finance them on my own? These are OUR children, he should help pay towards them!

[Shazza36]

Reading into trevt0m 's last post ('if my kids want something I buy it not give their mum the money')it says a lot about him, he obviously couldn't keep his partner and it sound like the kids are better off without him anyway. If he is not being pursued by CSA regarding his kids as he says he isn't paying anything he must be on the dole and therefore excpects every other taxpayer in the country to foot the bill for his kids and himself, unless of course his ex partner is working her socks off giving her kids a better life without an arroganr ar**hole for a father. People with his mentality should not be allowed to breed in case their offspring turn out like them, in fact this is probably why his expartner and kids don't live with him- she saw the light and wanted to save her kids!

[trevt0m]

shazza you sound like you dont belong in this country yes i am working to keep you lot i am pure british (white) and a tax payer so up yours and go home where you belong

[trevt0m]

shazza you sound like you dont belong in this country yes i am working to keep you lot i am pure british (white) and a tax payer so up yours and go home where you belong lets get one thing straight .i am married and yes we are still together very much .yes i do have kids 4 who are very proud of me because i dont sponge of the state i give them everything they want or try . yes i am arrogrant man because all you women think you can get what you want and give back nowt i have worked for the pst 30 years payed my taxes and dont know why we get nothing back �22.000 a year is nothing so why does he have to pay his ex when he can buy the kids what they need then he will see where the moneys going and the c.s.a well it says it all women on the dole do not benefit because there dole money will be taken away or some of it so the best thing to do is let him buy them gifts and clothes or pocket money and everyone benefits ok by for now lol

[trevt0m]

p.s i cant spell but getting better lol

[daffidazey]

Actually, trevt0m, He wants nothing to do with his children, so cannot buy them what they need when they see him. If he did then I would not be going through the CSA. If you also read my post, you will see I am not 'sponging off the state' as you put it, anymore. When we separated I had no choice other than to go on income support, We were in married quarters and we had to leave. I moved back near my family which meant I had to leave my job. I only went on income support while I moved and settled and got my kids settled. Once that had happened I went job hunting! I suggest in future, before you make predictions, that you find out the full story first!
Do you think that because he has suddenly decided he wants no further contact with his children, that gives him the right to walk away and not pay anything towards them? At the end of the day it took both of us to make the children!The money that I may receive from him will be spent on the children and the children only, anything that may be left over will be put into their savings account.