Greetings,
I’m at the end of my tether with this one….
ive been paying child maintenance to my ex as per the agreed amount with the CMS until the end of Aug this year, after my son left school in the summer.
he was 16 in March.
now I was under the impression from everything I’ve read online that once he had ceased full time education, I was no longer required to pay maintenance?
he isn’t at college or doing any education as it is. He’s looking for an apprenticeship but is currently doing nothing.
Ive told this to the CMS but they’re not taking any notice and am now setting up a collect and pay through my work for a sum of money considerably larger than I was paying, including arrears to the tune of over a thousand pounds more than I should’ve paid if I had continued since the end of August
I’m so confused!
I see my son every week and give him money directly so it’s not like I’m doing this to not pay, it’s just his mum has a tendency to leave him with his older sister and use the money to go abroad, like she is at this very moment, visiting France for the week.
so my basic query is what am I missing?
my son isn’t in full time education so why are the CMS hounding me for payments?
any light shed on this would be fantastic…. I’ve asked them directly but they’re useless and talk to me like I’m some kind of terrorist or something. It’s so annoying and terribly frustrating.
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Syzgoss.