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Hello Seanf
Thank you for your post. I am William, the Child Maintenance Options consultant. I cannot look into individual Child Support Agency (CSA) cases but I will see if I can give you any information that may help.
Under the 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. Before 10 December 2012, the upper age limit was 19.
You have said that your daughter is no longer in full-time education. You may wish to contact the CSA and ask them exactly what information they will accept that proves your daughter has left education. In the meantime, contact your daughter's last school/college and ask them for written confirmation that she has left.
Bear in mind that in some cases, children are still classified as being in education until the start of the new educational year (usually September) so you may have to keep paying up until that point. You can find the contact details and information about how the CSA work out child maintenance online at http://www.gov.uk/childmaintenance.
You asked in another post how you can find out if your daughter's mother is still claiming Child Benefit and what age this is paid up to. Child Benefit is paid by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs and generally continues until the first week of September. You can find further information about Child Benefit from the following link: https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit-16-19/your-child-leaves-education-or-training.
We have a sorting out separation web-app that you may find useful, it offers help and support to separated families. You can find this at: http://www.dad.info/divorce-and-separation/sorting-out-separation.
To find out more about how Child Maintenance Options can help you visit: http://www.cmoptions.org. If you would prefer a friendly and confidential chat, please give the team a call on 0800 988 0988.
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