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Hi I wonder if anybody can help me. My husband's daughter will be 18 shortly and he has religiously paid the CSA payments but we are suspicious now as to whether she is in full-time education so do we keep paying or do we stop and ask for proof and if this is the situation who do we speak to as we have no contact with either my husband's daughter or his ex-wife. any advice would be very grateful
Hi there
It's very difficult to find this information out, especially as your husband isn't in contact with his daughter.
You could try calling the CSA and asking them if they can help you clarify the situation, but apart from that there's not a whole lot more you can do I'm afraid.
If he knows which college she was going to, you could give them a call - there's no guarantee they will tell you, but they just might, and for the sake of a phone call , it's worth a try. You'd then have to inform the benefits office that she was claiming child benefit fraudulently, though again, they are extremely slow to act (if at all).
Hello Kerriehenton
Under child support legislation, 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. When a child leaves full-time education in the summer, Child Benefit generally continues until the first week of September...
For further information on when maintenance ends and what courses are classed as full-time non-advanced education, you may find the following link useful https://www.gov.uk/when-child-maintenance-payments-stop.
With your husband having a case with the Child Support Agency (CSA) he may wish to speak to them directly, to see if they can provide any information regarding if his daughter is still in full-time education. He will find their details on any letters they have sent him or he can find the telephone number for his nearest office by clicking on the following link and entering the first part of his postcode into the search box: https://www2.dwp.gov.uk/csa/v2/en/setup/apply-by-telephone.asp.
You mentioned that he does not have contact with his daughter or his ex-wife, however, if he has any contact with other members of the family or friends that he could ask that may be able to provide this information.
For more information on all the different ways to set up child maintenance and for a more personalised service, you can visit the Child Maintenance Options website at http://www.cmoptions.org.
The DWP have a sorting out separation web-app that you may find useful. It offers help and support to separating and separated families. The link is: www.dad.info/divorce-and-separation/sorting-out-separation.
Regards
William
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