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Originally Posted by erol
If the state is paying someone benefits to support a child and they subsequently get the missing partner to pay support for the child, then it seems right to me that they either stop the benefits or carry on the benefits and take the child support? Or have I missed something here?
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They get benifits for being unable to work, such as housing benifit, unemployment benifit, council tax relief, and the £10 (or what ever it is now) a week child benifit.
The majority of those benifit £ÃÆ ’‚£Ãà¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚£ are there for the adult to be able to live, not for the child.
The CSA says that the father should pay £400 a month for the child.
But the mother's benifits are taken out of that, so either the child gets the £400 and the mother has no benifits, or the mother uses some of the £400 to simply live, and the child then gets less than £400, less than what the CSA has deemed the child needs per month to have a good standard of living.