Benefit Fraud, Tax Avoidance and CSA

A question about : Benefit Fraud, Tax Avoidance and CSA

Good evening,

wondering if anyone has came across anything like this to put my mind as ease.

my ex partner tried everything to avoid paying csa and about 5 years ago he was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay Ј10 a week arrears. Just before the court date he became unemployment and has claimed JSA ever since so has only paid the ten pounds arrears payments, no regular maintenance.

Unknown to me, all of this time he has been working cash in hand full time making a good amount each week and still signing on for JSA. Well like as normally happens, he has been found out and I have been told that he is in trouble for benefit fraud and tax avoidance.

This leaves me with 3 questions.
1) will he still be expected to make the arrears payments of Ј10 even with his JSA stopped?
2) Will he now be assessed on his earnings with the exception that he makes regular payments?
3) As I expect the tax man will want the income tax and NI that my ex hasn't paid over the last 5 years due to his fraud, can I expect that I will be due support for my daughter in regards to this time?

I am a working mum who is struggling on a limited income so I am worried about the Ј10 a week first at foremost but it would also be nice to think that I may be entitled to a little more as my daughter has reached the age of iphones and trainers lol x

Best answers:

• 1) CS is not liable if the NRP is in prison
  2) Only legal earnings are used for assesment.
  3) Tax man comes 1st.
  Iphones and fancy trainers are not essential and that's not what CS was desinged to help with I'm afraid .
• You've completed missed the point, I cover everything myself at the moment as anyone can agree that a child costs more then a tenner a week. That wasn't my question at all!
  If you cant answer the question don't waste your time posting useless answers
• The Child Support Agency (CSA) is a delivery arm of the Department for Work and Pensions (Child Maintenance Group) in Great Britain and the Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland. Launched on 5 April 1993, the CSA is responsible for implementing the Child Support Act 1991 and subsequent legislation.
• Wishgirl you post your question and any further legitimate questions without concern about unhelpful posters. I'm in the same position as you bringing up my children without financial support from my ex who has gone to extensive lengths to avoid child maintenance.
  The poster DUTR obviously has no experience of the true cost of raising children. I'm sure if your child needs new trainers or a new phone on top of all the other expense of raising your child you will scrimp and save and go without yourself to provide these things. Children have things like birthdays and Christmas that's when these gadgets and trainers are bought for presents.
  Hold your head high!!!
• The OP has nothing to do with your circumstances. We are talking about NRP who go to great lengths to avoid providing any financial support to their children while the RP shoulders the whole financial responsibility.
• What on Ј10 that she doesn't receive anyway. Clueless! I'm not commenting with you anymore. If the OP wants to pm me that would be better.
• I think everyone can sympathise with OP. Ј10 a week support towards raising a teenager is close to peanuts, but I am with DUTR that I do find it very sad that iphone and trainers had to be mentioned in these circumstances. If you can afford everything else and all she is missing on is expensive electronics and clothing, then you are doing a fantastic job as a mum to raise her showing her the value of money (assuming working mum than the 16 hours minimum and getting more in tax credits than in income).
  Not every teenagers get expensive trainers and iphones, and that's regardless of income. My DD did get an iphone for Xmas this year at 15 but that's the 4S, no way she would get a more recent version and she was delighted with it. She doesn't have one bit of designer clothing yet she is known to have a good dress sense. Yet, our household income is much above the average and we could certainly afford it. Some of her school mates do seem to base their worth on such items, and strangely, they tend to be those from families on lower incomes. My DD doesn't judge any of her friends on what brand of shoes they wear and clearly neither do her friends as she seems quite a popular kid at her school without owning any of it.
  I am sure life is tough, but you should use your circumstances to teach your child how important it is to become self-sufficient and that you get much more satisfaction from being so than by getting the latest popular gadgets.