Children staying in education so I pay more to CSA
In order for CSA payments to continue for a further year my daughter took a year’s Performing Arts course and then a two year computer course, which she managed to fit in before her 19th birthday, this meant three years payments after GCSE. The Performing Arts COurse was just purely for the sake of it, there was no intention to attempt to follow a career in this. My son has now done the same thing, spent two years repeating a one year course (not because of failing just repeating). Now doing a third year doing something else.
My ex knows how to work the system, I wouldn’t mind if the courses were of benefit to someone but only to her really. The CSA of course are not able to do anything because they are incompetent at sorting out anything that is not absolutely straightforward.
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They government and CSA love it. Filling newly built/upgraded colleges and univerities with young people on ‘no mark’ courses, because there are no jobs for them. It saves paying job seekers allowance out and in some cases the government will pay EMA. However, they are changing the rules all of the time so EMA won’t be paid to all to some, and the student get stitched up with repayable grants!
In the meantime, because they are left with no alternative, but to go to college/uni, we continue to pick up the government bill for benefits. However, if you raise this in the sdult domain or with the CSA you are shouted down, as some sort of feckless parent. UNTRUE lies and fabrications.
Students do have part-time jobs and weekend work. Is this taken into account when you are picking up the bill. A big fat NO!
Are your children really that dominated by their mother?
i dont think this issue is as much to do with csa but either bone idle kids or kids who jus take the piss and have little respect or direction in life if they play the system wot can csa do or yourself????
Your complaining because your children are furthering their education? How bizarre!
No Sarah you have it wrong. He is complaining because he has to pay CSA for more years. You pay for your family and have up to 40% of your wage and see how you pay your bills. In England if you the mother with care remarry you can have three wages coming in. Just because you got divorced. The father gets remarried and they take even more off him. What about the children to his new wife, what do they get? Two wages in and up to 40% of his wage gone. Talk about bizarre!!
Surely the children off the new wife should be receiving maitenence from their father. NRP 9if male or female) should be shypporting their offspring. If NRP cannot afford the children they already have they shouldnt go on to have more. If 40% of salary is being taken thats because there are arrears on the case – suggesting that the NRP has not been paying towards the upkeep of his children. I am a PWC and I dont see the NRP contribution as a wage to supplement my salary – its money to ensure the child we had together maintains the same standard of living she would have had should her father and mines relattionship worked out. So he should have top pay towards the child/children for more years – up to 19 years if they remain in educatio n which from what he is saying they have.
Sarah, "If NRP cannot afford the children they already have they shouldn't go on to have more"…to a point I agree. However if you delve into some of the circumstances of some cases then I would disagree! Each case is different, the mere fact a NRP has children shouldn't mean they shouldn't have any more UNLESS the reason they lost their family unit is of their own doing! If a PWC has broken up the family unit then THEY should pay the price for doing so! Why should you be denied from having a further family and kids because your ex decided to destroy your family unit? The kids are the responsibility of BOTH parents and the circumstances of each case should be considered!
As for the specific story above, we don't know what the exact reasons are for them doing the courses but repeating a course you've passed? That is not normal behaviour so one does have to wonder what the motivation is???
A college wouldnt let a student repeat a course that has been passed so I can only assume that the course was failed, or was passed at a low rate where a higher pass mark is required for university entry or apprentaship etc. I think if a NRP is griping about paying for kids they already have saying they cant afford them etc then they shouldnt have more children. Children are not like shares – you cant just stop paying into them when you feel like it because your skint or have another interest in your life that will cost money.
No but fathers are not walking wallets either. When a family's circumstances change, everyone has to adapt. Why is it different just because you are divorced?