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My ex is 46.
I’ve now seen the letter they have sent online regarding the decision. They do mention applying for a variation. I’ve cut and pasted it below.
“ This is Ms H*^%#+s amount of income before income tax and National Insurance are taken away but after any occupational pension and private pension scheme contributions are made from her salary.
This amount also includes any adjustments made for variations (see step 2 below).
Step 2 – Factors that affect income
There are no variations that could affect the information given in Step 1 above.
Sorry I don’t see an attachment about diversion of income
Definitely challenge this, it’s not fair. Chances are the CMS have got figures from HMRC as it’s first time, and on here it does not show what pension contributions are made. This probably mean that the right person hasn’t seen details of the 75% pension diversion.
Sorry I see the forum rejected it as the file size was too big. I wanted to show the whole page I received but have put just the relevant extract below copied and pasted this time. Note the bit on Diversion of income, this is the reason for you asking for a variation I believe - Diversion of Income, specifically excess pension contributions.
Other types of your income we can be asked
to consider
An ‘additional income variation’ application can be
made for:
• ‘unearned’ income – such as rental income you
get from property or land, or dividends and
interest from savings and investments. This type
of income must be at least £2,500 a year
• ‘notional income from assets' - this is income
that we can work out you could get based on
certain types of assets that you may own if the
asset's total value is £31,250 or more
• 'earned’ income – this is when you are getting
benefits (and qualify to pay Flat rate child
maintenance) but you also have gross income
from a pension, employment or self employment.
This income must be at least £100 a week
• ‘diversion’ of income – this is when you may be
controlling the amount of income you get by
diverting it to another person or other purpose,
which means it is not being included in the figure
we use to work out child maintenance
When either parent applies for a variation, we
share the information they give us with the other
parent. This allows us to get information from
everyone involved before we make a decision.
taking photos at a lower resolution may help the forum accept it, but you got the important stuff up there anyway.:)
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