A friend of mine has custody of his child. The other parent is on benefits so therefore the CS is taken directly out of her fortnightly payment.
Other parent is a big fat whinger and expects the world to provide a living for her, and even though she doesn't have full time care of the child and only paying $27 a MONTH in CS she has written my friend a letter asking that he stop receiving the CS payments from her.
It's a long and stupid story (as they all are), but now she is putting awful pressure on the child to get his dad to refuse the payments which is just WRONGTOWN but at the end of the day $27 a month makes absolutley no difference to my friend and in an effort to get her to lay off the child he thought he might agree.
Only problem is I'm not actually sure if it can be done with her on payments. I'm aware of Private Agreements with CSA, but I don't think it can be done with Clink payments invovled.
Anyone have any idea?
As far as I know, if he stops getting CS from the ex then his FTB is slugged. I mean its the same with me really, the $27 makes no difference and the Ex would be happy to never pay it again, I would be equally as happy not to take it from him. But I can't not. If I refuse his CS then I get put on minimum FTB A for Angel and Chilly. So I would not just be losing his $27 a month, but a good $200+ a fn too.
I didn't think so. At least he can tell her it's out of his hands....hopefully she might back off.
She just sent him this letter telling him he should be ashamed of himself for taking the money (!) yadda yadda yadda - completely forgetting about the CAR he bought her 2 years ago. She's not stable and the poor kid is really really suffering.
Yep, unless its changed, you have to recieve /seek child support to get maximum rate. Otherwise you get base rate.
What they can do is speak to the child support folks. If they let them know they have a private agreement between them, eg, she buys child new clothes a month instead of the money, they can stop them taking it out of her payments. Then what happens between them is no ones business....
Eta.. unless that has also changed.. but my ex's just pay me in cash once a month, CSA would have no idea if they are paying the right money unless i complained.... ( they both do anyway)
I did look at that option PB, but its basically fraud - and if it ever came to light the backpay he would owe me wouldn't even scratch the surface of what I'd owe cl. There is also absolutely no way I would even consider defrauding centrelink just to make him happy!
Very sure the only way he can do it without affecting his FTB is if he is in fear of domestic violence.
I will check with DH, but i'm very sure it is no. I would get her to call CSA directly. Even though they have a private agreement, does CSA collect and dispurse it for them? I would be a bit suss about her, and would go through CSA just to make sure that she can't cause problems later (saying she paid when she didn't etc etc)
Waiving CSA when parent on Clink...
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