News
Cake maker sponges from Child Support AgencyA baker who used an employee’s CSA deductions to support the business has been slapped with a hefty fine.
Barbara Heath, a partner in Auntie’s Handmade Cakes, based in Buckfastleigh, Devon, deducted money from the pay packet of baker Shawn Fell over 142 weeks at the behest of a DEO from the Child Support Agency. However, instead of paying the money direct to the Child Support Agency, as it was intended, the money was used to help prop up the business.
The scam was perpetrated for three years before investigators discovered it. Mr Fell’s Child Support Agency arrears stood at £8,002.55, but they found that despite deductions being taken at source, only £3,918 had been paid, leaving £4,084.06 unaccounted for. The CSA approached Ms Heath, 52, and uncovered the ruse.
Prosecuting on behalf of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, Martin Symonds told Torbay Magistrates:
“Investigators visited the proprietor and Read more »
Advice
Move overseas and the CSA can’t touch youI have just returned to the uk after living overseas for the past ten years. The CSA sent me a letter in 2000 saying that they would not take any other action for payments., (they don’t have the power to chase me for payments living abroard) As soon as I started work back in the uk I’m landed with a £7600 bill demanding payment. My son is now 19yrs he lived overseas when growing up and only returned to the uk a few years ago. I have decided to challenge them in court. Any advice would be great.
My advice to you is Read more »
Mistakes
Ex made a false claim as daughter lives with meI have 3 children, a step daughter of 27, a daughter of 24 and a son from a different marraige of 17. I enjoy my time with my family and have always enjoyed long and protracted contact with all my kids.
I work for a newspaper for £1,500 gross per year. (Yeah pathetic I know, but that’s another story) I opened my payslip last week to find £271 and change had been removed from my salary. Leaving me with £660 to live on for a month.
I contacted my payroll who informed me it was the CSA. I spoke to them immediately and was told it was for £7,997 arrears for my 24 year old daughter.
Er….she lived with me from the age of 13 as a result of a place of safety award as her mother was a Read more »
Complaints
Why should resident parents work?OMG how simple are some men!!!
In the last 4 years of paying for my daughter to go to nursery so i can work full time has cost near on £20,000, ok the child benefit and tax credits system has provided around £6000 which means i have still paid out £14000 just on nursery fees alone. I am unsure why absent fathers feel they should not have to pay towards their children, and am also confused as to why they think paying maintenance is giving money to their ex to do what they want with.
My argument is why the hell should resident parents go to work full time to support their children and have nothing at the end of it because they are the only ones that provide for their children. Non resident parents think the CSA leave them in financial hardship, well if the non resident parent had the children full time i would well imagine they would be in more financial difficulty than Read more »
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CSA News
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