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Draft child support regulations for the new system was discussed in the House of Commons yesterday
Looks like summer 2014 they will start to move cases over and introduce charges of collect and pay is used
that sounds better for me. I offered to pay directly but was refused.
The CSA have made 27 calculations on me in just under a year - and I still have yet to pay the correct amount.
It depends what system your on/if your on benefits/nil assessed as these will be moved first
Others will probably be 2016 onwards
Mine might be one of the early ones then since my ex is on benefits (no idea what she has managed to wrangle them for!)
1) First we shall close cases where the non-resident parent is assessed to pay a nil amount. Out of more than 1 million cases on the child support system, there are more than 160,000 such cases, with an assessment to pay nothing. Sometimes that is because the data are out of date. For example, a non-resident parent who was a student when the child was born would have had a nil assessment
2) When we have dealt with those 160,000, we will take the next 140,000 cases where the non-resident parent is non-compliant. It might seem a bit odd to close those, but they are the ones in which we are getting no maintenance. Often enforcement will have been attempted and failed, and the case will be sitting dormant on the system
3) After closing the cases of the people who are non-compliant, we will close the clerical cases—the ones that hon. Members hear about most in their constituency surgeries, because, as we know, they are often the ones where customer service is not as good as it should be; the data are not on the computer, and there is a big file of papers. There are 40,000 of those cases. Then we will close the other non-clerical compliant cases—another 420,000.
4) The final group is an important one: the ones on which there is an enforced method of payment or legal enforcement action under way, such as deduction from earnings orders—there are 130,000 such cases
Then elsewhere it reads -
(a)the nil rate is payable under regulation 26 (cases where child support maintenance is not to be payable) of the 1992 Regulations(10);
(b)regulation 28 (amount payable where absent parent is in receipt of income support or other prescribed benefit) of the 1992 Regulations(11) applies;
(c)the nil rate is payable under regulation 5 (nil rate) of the Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations 2000(12).
Wow, that will need a huge carpet to sweep all those cases under.
I can't see it happening by 2017
It would be in my favour if it didn't happen until 2018/2019
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