I’ve been paying for a child who left education in 2005 and actually lived with us

July 25, 2013

My ex carried on accepting payment for two children I didn’t realise I was still paying for 2 until, they reassessed me in 2010 and were still taking him into account he was 21 and left school at 16 yrs old so I stopped all payments never heard anything for 2 yrs then they slapped me with a bill for 4800 pound.

I do genuinely owe about 2000 pound which I am more than happy to pay for my daughter but they won’t deduct all the overpay, nets we made for our son. They have now accepted they overcharged us and adjusted it so we were paying for 1 child after August 2007 but he left education in 2005 and actually lived with us for a year

please help

Comments

  • CSA warrior says:

    I have come across this before.

    the problem you have is if you didn`t claim child support and the mum did for the period that the child was living with you legally he was staying with the mum as who ever has the child benefit is primary carer. I know it is of no comfort to say your screwed and why but it might help others a substantiale number of PWCs call in the bully boys purely out of malice and greed.

    what you can do is get a copy of your file from the DPU (date protection unit.) and see if there have been any errors then put in a complaint.

    However if you are feeling malicious then you can inform the DWP that she claimed for a child that did not live with her. thats benefit fraud. and the DWP dont like that. they would like you to make a statement and attend court . But think about it first.

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