Child Benefit

MrsMathsisfun wrote:

Its my understanding you only have to pay the extra if you don''t pay her directly and if you say thats what you will do. she can''t say no.

this is how I understand it too. As long as you pay when you say you''ll pay, the CSA will not take over and will not take the administration fee from either of you. It''s not just you who will pay - I''m not sure what the PWC ''cut'' is (not as much as the NRP) but if you pay, she pays as well.

From what I remember it''s 20% on top for the payer (which the CSA keep) and the receiver will pay 7% out the amount they will receive.

Like others have said I think it''s only if you use their collection services.

Under the new rules (CSA3) there is a charge (to the resident parent) for making an application and a further charge for doing the calculation.

Once the calculation has been done you can then pay directly. If you don''t, or miss payments then the collections service kicks in, for which there are charges (20% for payer and 7% for payee as CakesandFlowers said) so to the best of my knowledge a payee cannot choose to use the expensive collections service simply to spite the payer.

Ha - you would think that would be the easiest and quickest thing to do! Who knows though they seem to take ages to do something which could take a couple of minutes! It''ll be interesting to see what the outcome is,

If you could refuse to pay cm if your stopped from seeing your children for no reason other than spite. These silly games would soon stop.

Why unreasonably refusing contact isn''t dealt with the same way as refusing to pay cm is beyond me.