hes apparently 'working' now, will i see more cs?

[BlackCat]

how come some of you ladies arnt gettin money from CS.; i dont know much about it but my SIL was having so much trouble with me bro he refused to pay and she tried being nice and he just wouldnt do it so she called CS and now they just automatically take it out of his pay b4 he gets paid IYKWIM so how come this doesnt happen for you?

As quoted by CSA to a friend, the father is paying a regular amount albeit not the full amount, which in their eyes is still an effort to meet his obligation and they will not go to his employer to garnish his wages where is it seen that he is making an effort to meet his obligation... Do with that information what you will

You could say you've heard he's working & ask them to do a review?
I'm not real sure how it works, they might just ask him for an estimate of what he thinks he'll make, & then go off what he says, but he might be honest.
If they are collecting for you, they can contact his employer & they'd pay csa instead of him paying you.

:yeahthat: In order for his CS obligation to be increased, he will need to provide them with an estimate of how much he is projected to earn. Until such time that he provides them with that estimate you will continue to receive your current assessment amount. As he has told you he is working you just need to call them from my understanding, and let them know that he is working and they will catch up with him. The new amount will take place only from when they are notified of the change. You may be get back paid at the end of the financial year for any indiscrepancies or sometimes it may not happen until reconciliation of your records, which occurs only after the original estimate date was reached the following year. Its all quite complicated. Call them and ask the question. And although he may guess that it was you that told them, they wont actually tell him that it was you that said anything for privacy and safety reasons.

[Inanna]

Hugs honey it does suck.

I would request a review of his ability to pay. He may then have to provide evidence of income and outgoings. I have recently done this as my ex on a wage of close to $150k cannot "afford" to repay his debt or pay the increase in CS at any more than $80 per month. I am in the position that my centrelink payments are very low due to what he is expected to pay in CS. So it sucks big time.

I am glad you are collecting through csa - this does make it easier. My advice would be to request a review.

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[briggsy's girl]

One interesting thing about child support is that it is delayed by a financial year, so if he has been earning $10k one year and then $200k the next, you have to wait for the *next* year after that to get increased payments.

you can request a review at any time due to changes in circumstances - if the paying parent was on 200k and dropped to 10k, they would alter it quickly otherwise they would be left in severe financial hardship - so it can be done in reverse if income goes up

[Inanna]

Yes I second that BG. So Rumpled elf I'd be on the phone!

[briggsy's girl]

And if you're getting child support don't expect the end of year FTA/FTB equalisation - for ALL your kids not just ones affected by CSA - to come in until your ex has done his tax.

just re-read this
unless it all changed while i was on mat leave, this is not the case. if you were seperated on june 30/july 1, then you are treated as single and your reconcilliation goes through based on the most recent estimate on file for your ex. if he does his tax later and you had overestimated you will get a further top up.

the only way you have to wait is if you are partnered on june 30/july 1. if you seperate on july 2 - you have to wait for him to do his taxes.

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This is what I've had every year for the last few years ... I do my tax, I get all my tax return except FTA reconciliation, then when he does his I get the extra FTA. Then I get assorted letters from CSA twiddling whatever child support I'm supposed to get, then a raft of Centrelink letters, yada yada. Before then he wasn't working so I got the standard $12 a fortnight or whatever it was back then. The system just does what it does, I don't query it.

We've been separated just over 10 years. And yes, my daughter is *under* 10, and yes, the math *does* work out.

I have no idea when his pay goes up and down as I've also had a restraining order on the man for the same 10 years and we don't speak (and believe me, even after all this time, with what he did at the time he did it I have no urge whatsoever to speak to him) - I have no idea what he does for a living - so there's no need to phone up and ask for a review.

[Lulu]

FWIW, asking for a review is pretty sucky. You are reviewed as well, and this information will be accessible to the other party. You have to provide REAMS of personal documentation. I took one look at the paperwork, noted that HE would be able to see it and chucked it in the bin.

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This is all reminding me that it is almost tax time and I'm probably going to have to see a *gasp* accountant this year ... I've been a landlady for 7 months on a house that turns a pretty healthy profit ... I have two businesses ... I made quite a decent amount of foreign income this financial year ... tax time is going to be FUN!

You don't want to know how many "extra" mod R's and mod F forms I have to fill in every time I need to deal with Centrelink ...