How does benefits and maintenance work with 50/50 care?
Ex Wife currently gets child benefit but she earns too much to get tax credits. I am on a low income so I could get tax credits - she gets tax free childcare currently though so not sure how that would impact my potential tax credits claim.
hi, if your claiming any benefits, you may be eligible for support if you have children 50/50 of time. do you have a separation agreement or court order as evidence? you could put in a counter claim for child benefit.
Ok, so we have broken down what 50/50 actually means and sadly I can't do it.
I expected that I could utilise the childcare arrangements already in place however she has told me that this will not be available to me. Basically I will need to pay for breakfast club on the days I take him in and afterschool club on the days I pick him up should either be needed. That is before we factor in the 5.5 weeks holiday I will need off work just to get to the end of the year from today. So I would need more like 7 weeks off over the course of a full year.
Breakfast club will be needed every day and I would probably need after school club at least a couple of times a week. He probably wont want to go to afterschool club as her father will pick him up and take him home but she is saying that my evenings need to start with me collecting him from school myself or making alternatve arrangements, not me benefitting from any arrangements she has made.
Whats your actual work hours on a weekly basis? 50-50 is very hard to do when you have to work as well