Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

ONS Omnibus Survey, March 2004

Variable Details

Variablem256_15
LabelDo you know what the changes are?
Question text Do you know what any of these changes are [way in which maintenance is calculated by the Child Support Agency]?
Responses
15% of fathers income/ 1
15% of fathers salary 1
20% of your disposable income 1
ABOUT A PERCENTAGE OF YOUR WAGE ACCORDING TO HOW MANY KIDS YOUVE GOT / TO GET MORE MONEY OUT OF YOU 1
Don't know 26
Fixed percentage of income 1
I KNOW FROM OUR OWN EXP ABOUT THE CSA. THEY HAMMERED MY HUSBAND AFTER WE SEPARATED FOR ONLY 8 MNTHS. IT IS 10 YEARS SINCE THAT SEPARATION AND MY HUSBAND IS STILL PAYING BACK THE BENEFITS I RECD AT THE RATE OF £77 A WEEK. & A COLLEAGUE IS NOW GOING THR 1
I PHONED UP YETERDAY ABOUT IT BUT COULD NOT TO THE PERSON I NEEDED TO SPEAK TO.I DO KNOW THAT IT CAN NOW HAVE THE MONEY DEDUCTED FROM HIS SALARY 1
I THINK IT MAY INCLUDE THE CSA BEING ABLE TO GET TO A MANS PAY AND MAKE DIRECT DEDUCTIONS 1
I THINK THAT THEY CAN NOW DEDUCT MONEY DIRECT FROM A MANS PAY 1
I have heard that they are a quarter of the income 1
I think that a father will be paying a percentage of his salary for each child with variations in percentages with the number of children. 1
IT IS TAKEN AS A PERCENTAGE OF TAKE HOME 15% 1ST CHILD AND ADD 5% FOR OTHERS UP TO 25%/IF FROM DIFFERENT PARTNERS, TOTAL AMOUNT DIVIDED BY AMOUNT OF KIDS AND SPLIT BETWEEN THE KIDS 1
New tax credit system has loopholes-these are being plugged.Ae/no. 1
No 6
No I couldnb't give details 1
No although I have read something in the press 1
No not offhand 1
No. 1
Not really no-something to do with tax credits. 1
SIPLIFIING THE PROCES 1
They're now looking at taking a percentage of the net income rather than the complicated system it was before,and they're now giving allowances for step children.Ae/no. 1
Try harder to get fathers to pay. 1
Trying to introduce new IT basis to simplify the calculation and distribution of payments. This has failed . The case backlog is now trying to be cleared manually it is a government failure it has not been handled properly. 1
Yes .We keep £10 of the maintenaance ourselves 1
a percentage of the parents income 1
basically its a proportion of your salary and it will take into acct over night stays and it will be made simpler 1
can't remember - i know it meant more money was coming out of the persons pocket 1
cannot recall at present 1
cannot remember 1
cant remember 1
change it so it's a set percentage depending on how many children there are 1
changed to percenctage of pay 1
depending on how many children a percentage is calculated 1
fixed proportion of contributors income per child with poss a ceiling 1
going to become means -tested, i think, on the men's behalf AE)- 1
i believe that fathers do not have to pay as much nowadays 1
i do know 1
is a %age of take holm pay, rising with the no. of children involved. 1
it is being reduced from thirty percent to fifteen per cent of the absent parents income 1
its a percentage now of earnings 1
its going to be the inland rev wholl pay money toawdrs kids not dss 1
just some forms 1
looking at each case more individually 1
make it dependent on fathers income so ammount will be variable 1
making the father pay more a/c to wages 1
more money 1
more money for families on lower wages 1
my partner works for the CSA 1
no 45
no - my partner has had a letter 1
no at the moment 1
no details 1
no idea 1
no,off-hand i can't 1
no. 2
none 1
not actually individually 1
not off hand 1
not really - have just heard about there being changes 1
not sure 2
only that basically they will take 20% of gross or net income not sure which// 1
percentage of income claimed 1
percentage of something but not sure 1
reduce how much the father has to pay and reducing it, also taking into accoun t if hes living with someone who alresdy has a child 1
set formula set 1
simplification of th system a proportion of income simpler formulae 1
something about the percentage being reduced 1
take 15% for first child ,10% for second from wages 1
the original csa was failure for collections the success of revised csa is unknown 1
there's been a lot of where the mother's not getting the money then where is and what is happening to say the interest on it/ae/no 1
they dont take into account new partners income 1
they dont take into accout mothers earnings it now goes on net income 1
they were going to base it on a 25% of net income, they were going to work it out for the number of children, it was going to be a decreasing scale for the number of children 1
think that it is a percentage of earnings instead of a set amount 1
tiered system depending on number of dependents - increasers up to 4 children 1
try and charge 15% of your net income after they have taxed you as well bring it in when they get their computer systems up to date brought change in about 3 years ago but couldnt implement them because the computer systems couldnt take it 1
trying to simply/make it an easier formula/proportion of income 1
yes as this is part of my work 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationONS Omnibus Survey, March 2004
UniverseAdults, aged 16 or over, living in private households in Great Britain.;Adults;Households;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study, monthly (up to year 2000), 8 cycles per year thereafter.