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Hi. I’m new here and hoping I can get some help.
my child’s mother moved 100 miles away in January. Due to this I’ve had to cut my visits down from every weekend (Friday-Monday) down to 2 weekends a month (Friday-Sunday). This is due to the cost of the fuel to get up there and her being unwilling to meet me in the middle.
I found out about claiming mileage for seeing him and applied for it. I have just received confirmation they have accepted it. But it has resulted in a £17 reduction. This doesn’t even cover an 8th of the fuel bill a month. They have also just put my maintenance up a hefty amount due to the new visitation schedule. It’s made it almost impossible to pay my bills and still see my child. So I now have to make the decision to cut down how much I see him even more because I can’t afford to keep doing all the mileage and paying what they say. Or I keep seeing him as much but be unable to pay all my bills.
is there any way I can fight this?
Hi. I’m new here and hoping I can get some help.
my child’s mother moved 100 miles away in January. Due to this I’ve had to cut my visits down from every weekend (Friday-Monday) down to 2 weekends a month (Friday-Sunday). This is due to the cost of the fuel to get up there and her being unwilling to meet me in the middle.
I found out about claiming mileage for seeing him and applied for it. I have just received confirmation they have accepted it. But it has resulted in a £17 reduction. This doesn’t even cover an 8th of the fuel bill a month. They have also just put my maintenance up a hefty amount due to the new visitation schedule. It’s made it almost impossible to pay my bills and still see my child. So I now have to make the decision to cut down how much I see him even more because I can’t afford to keep doing all the mileage and paying what they say. Or I keep seeing him as much but be unable to pay all my bills.
is there any way I can fight this?
Hi mate
Hope all gets sorted. Question for you or anyone.
With a mileage claim, do you have to actually evidence receipts or is there an agreed £/mile that is used based upon your address and the recipients address?
Thanks
@parkside357 for me they based it off of the milage traveled and needed no receipts. But the guy from the cms I spoke to said that they may ask for them in some cases.
@jake125 thanks for that. Did you make a claim as in a value and they decided whether the value was appropriate? Or did you just give them the miles and they calculated a value?
Hi,
Unfortunately the reductions for milage are very low. They just reduce your gross income by a little, then recalculate maintenance payments. Would train tickets work out cheaper?
Do you support any other children? If so that can reduce your payments.
Here is list of other expenses you can claim: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/other-financial-commitments-child-maintenance-cases#:~:text=These%20are%20called%2 0'special%20expenses,or%20a%20long%2Dterm%20illness
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