Soldato
Indeed. It really demoralises tbh. I get really frustrated at times from seeing how things are. Sorry this is all derailing the thread tbh.
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So blunt and aggressive!
Only goes to people on the following benefits and is in 2 installments £326 in July and £324 in "Autumn"
- Universal Credit,
- income-based Jobseekers Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance,
- Income Support
- working tax credit
- child tax credit
- pension credit
and how to get those benefits?
Soldato
Thanks buddy. My other consideration is trying to find a part time second job to do two nights a week at least like at Pub/Bar. I could do maybe a 6 hour shift Monday and Wednesday night. Means home from main work at 7pm, dinner then work at 7.30pm or something. Finish midnight and then back up for main job at 5.30am for 7am office start ha. But shall see.So sorry to hear this. Makes it more real when you hear a real story.
Hope things get better soon!
Does seem like you've done pretty much everything you can at this point.
Be my ex!! She gets 5 of those benefits as a single mum!
Yea, another OCUK bro hug from me @Curlyriff - hopefully it gets a little easier once the back payment is caught up, I can understand how frustrating it must be for you right now.
Soldato
one of those benefits being pension credit? guess you like them all wrinkled
- Universal Credit,
- income-based Jobseekers Allowance
income-related Employmentand Support Allowance,- Income Support
working tax credit- child tax credit
pension credit
I mean those are what I know. PIP is another one I know she has filled out paperwork for recently too
Soldato
Yeah fair enough - makes sense.
How the hell does her being on benefits affect it? That's just ****! On the plus side, if you were only underpaying ~£270 for 4 months and you're now overpaying ~£250, that shortfall should be made up within a few months?
It really is a terrible system which is extremely unbalanced towards one of the parents, you have my sympathies. To be honest if I was in that situation, I'd be doing everything I could to try and get custody, purely out of spite! (Or failing that, leave the country
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Yeah I have 6 months back payment I believe but appreciated. Will mean about £200 better off. Just need to get energy bills down or get a few more days at home to save travel to help with increased fuel costs.
Soldato
oh come on, really?
Soldato
So 2 interesting factsYeah fair enough - makes sense.
How the hell does her being on benefits affect it? That's just ****! On the plus side, if you were only underpaying ~£270 for 4 months and you're now overpaying ~£250, that shortfall should be made up within a few months?
It really is a terrible system which is extremely unbalanced towards one of the parents, you have my sympathies. To be honest if I was in that situation, I'd be doing everything I could to try and get custody, purely out of spite! (Or failing that, leave the country
Custody I would have to show negligence and harm for that. I can go to court to try and get say every other weekend with them over night but that actually wouldn't change how much I pay as I wouldn't qualify as having them overnight enough and so would need to be 3 weekends out of 4 minimum. With that it is 10% reduction on what you pay out so saving about £74 on normal rate I would be paying.
The second is that if you go abroad and work you can still be liable to pay CSA so you have to pick a place where they wont take that payment and if you don't pay in agreement they charge you 10% fee for collecting the monies on behalf of the other person direct from your wage.
Soldato
And let me guess, she by default gets custody because she's the mum?
If they can find you
But it was a relatively tongue in cheek comment.
yes please
Soldato
And let me guess, she by default gets custody because she's the mum?
If they can find you
But it was a relatively tongue in cheek comment.
Indeed she does. And I got that but just thought it was interesting to know that they can still claim even when you abroad.
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Google.
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Never believe that web site and calculator, its complete junk. Been there many a time with the CSA saying that your calculator says this but your asking me to pay this much, why?! They say over the phone, oh its wrong but when I ask is it getting fixed there's a bit of silence followed by another question/answer related to something else. I've had 7 years of hassle with them and not seeing my eldest very often, its a pain I don't wish on my worst enemy. I had a problem with my back in March and then after a day of being back to work in April, I fractured both bones in my left leg and then ended up with blood clots in my lungs after a couple weeks.. I said it then and say it again, I don't think 2022 is going to be my year!! lol
Just literally getting back on my feet and walking about more and more but they said it's about 6 months or more to get back to where I was before. Whoopee!! /s
It does seem however that many people are going to have issues and more issues with the cost of living and with interest rates going up. Without my mortgage I'm in a good position but how long that might last is going to be anyone's guess. No sooner do I think things are going well, something will surely batter me down and I'll be having issues
Guess you have to roll with the punches so to speak, however hard that might be 
Soldato
That's what I'm expecting next...But how to Google?
Soldato
I wish it was that. Unfortunately it isn't close to correct. They never explain why. They also have literature on their site and what they send you with different % figures. For a start the base is a flat 18% now which the calculator doesn't even do as that would be £727.50 and then as mentioned there some back payments because she changed her mind on paying an agreed sum so I just have to deal with basically.