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Bill,
I agree that it is always best for yourself to claim benefits, that way your NI contributions will be kept up to date.
Not sure what you mean by backpayments? That was certainly not the case for me, when I was unemployed and not on benefits, I was not made to back pay.
I think the key is to keep the CMS appraised as soon as your situation changes, and provide the relevant evidence to support this. Then you should avoid nasty surprises.
hi Yoda,
i will look into this further, about unemployment and back-dated pay.
stuff from their leaflet:
Changes to your job or employment
If you are employed – and we have used gross income information given to us by you, your employer or your accountant to work out child maintenance – you must tell us within 7 days of the change if you change your employer or your working hours and this leads to at least a 25% change in your gross income, up or down.
Important: If you do not tell us about this type of change within 7 days, you may be prosecuted and fined up to £1,000. Your child maintenance payments may also be backdated to the date to when the change happened.
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in my case CMS pushed me into 2 months arrears just for signing up to them lol. it took them over 2 months to tell me what im supposed to be paying. so for that i'm making back-dated payments from the time i registered with them, on top of regular payments.
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