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hi my child is 16 and now in a full time apprenticeship earning about 100 to 150.00 per week and goes to collage one day a week do i still have to pay maintenance ?
There are a couple of stickies at the top of this section on when it stops - if he's getting 12 hours or more per week of supervised study, then maintenance is still payable. I mus admit, I'm more confused these days as children have to stay in education or apprenticeship until age 18 by law, so I suspect that maintenance probably continues until then - if child benefit is still being paid, then you are still liable, so it might be worth having a word with the CSA to check if this is still paid.
Hello cocopops
If you agreed your child maintenance through a family-based arrangement, there are no set rules to follow. You and the other parent can agree together when maintenance will stop.
If your child maintenance is arranged via the statutory maintenance service, regular child maintenance payments must be made until a child is 16 years old, or 20 if they are in full-time, non-advanced education (A-level or equivalent), or for as long as Child Benefit is being paid. The definition of full-time education is more than 12 hours a week of study, on a course up to and including A-level standard.
You can find more information about approved education at https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit-16-19
If you would like information about the different options available to arrange maintenance, you can contact Child Maintenance Options, http://www.cmoptions.org.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have a web application, ‘Sorting out separation’. It aims to make it much easier for separating and separated parents (and childless couples) to find the support they need, when and where they need it, and encourages them to collaborate on a range of issues. The link is http://www.dad.info/divorce-and-separation/sorting-out-separation.
Regards
William
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