Job seekersc allowance/child maintence

Hi
Does can anybody help ref this.
My partner pa 15% to my ex wife for child maintence until his daughter is 21.
She is 19 now
She has decided to take a year off college (approx 15 month in total) she isnt working .
She states she cannot get job seekers allownace as I pay maintence.
The maintence is paid to her mother .
Does this sound correcr?
Thanks

I'm not 100% on this but as I'm led to believe CM is not used to calculate benefits, it is disregarded (for example when I claimed housing benefit I got awarded as much as a friend of mine who gets £400 a month CM off her ex) as it's not considered a regular payment (in other words as it's not state benefit the NRP could just not pay it one month and then the RP would be scuppered)...as I said though I'm not 100% about it.
Sorry I cant be of more help.

Thanks,
I apprecaite you even replying, I cant get full info on any website.
it does seem odd hes been told she cant get this, we are just wondering if weve been told that so hw doesnt go back to court as the incomes increased (private Consent Order "child" 19)