child support agency hell

News

I want a judicial review on how much my case alone has cost the taxpayers (me being one of them) over the last 11 yrs!

I also want bank info accompanying all s/e accounts for maintenance assessments

I want the CSA to work with PI’s also.

I want the ‘old’ casses like mine to be reassessed with info from the Criminal Compliance Unit via the Credit Ref Agencies and then garnishee orders issued for the money or charging orders on property, pensions, etc.

I want the NRP to be done with contempt if they do not supply the info they are requested to give and also if they do not pay – and can pay and if the do not pay the correct amount or default on payments – can can pay.

I want contractors/sub contractors to be also liable i.e. DEO taken from them, like they are for Employers.

Advice

I just wanted to share this with you all, because I am on the verge of giving up.

I’m a 37-year-old professional, earning around 20k a year. I split up with my ex-wife back in 2006. We have two children.

From the moment we split, the CSA was on my back. I paid about 140 quid a month for the two kids, who I had 50/50 access to.

Then, in June this year, I opened my pay packet to discover the CSA had taken 495 as an attachment from earnings. I had no idea why, so I phoned them.

They kindly explained that my schedule had been recalculated, I had underpaid and they were going to claim it back directly from my employer at 40 per cent of my gross. According to their records, I only had my son one night a week and didn’t see my daughter at all.

I told them this wasn’t the case, so they said they’d speak to my ex-wife to verify what I had said.

So, here I am, six months on and 3k down and still no resolution. My ex, who is on benefits and can’t be bothered to get out of bed in the morning, has ignored the CSA’s numerous calls, letters etc.

I have repeatedly asked her, I’ve emailed, phoned and written to the CSA explaining my dire circumstances.

The situation I face today, on December 22, 2009, is this.

I have paid my rent of 400 quid from the 770 quid I had left after the deduction. That leaves me with 370 quid. Then comes my council tax of 200 quid. That’s 170 quid left. Now my car tax of 20 quid. That’s 150 quid left. Then my utilities, of about 50 quid.

So that’s 100 quid left, to see me and my kids through until January 15, to cover food, fuel and anything unexpected that crops up.

I’m at my wits end. Today I considered jacking in my job – which I love and am successful at – because it’s not worth working 40, sometimes 50, hours a week, often at unsociable times of the day, to live on 100 quid a month.

What galls me is that if I refused to provide the CSA with accurate information, my arse would be in front of the magistrates court in a flash. I’d likely be sent to jail.

I have equal share of my kids, yet since June I have constantly struggled o be able to feed them, clothe them and entertain them.

What I really find it hard to endure is that this year I can’t even buy them Christmas presents.

I’m basically ruined and don’t know what to do anymore.

Rob, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Mistakes

When we were telling the CSA over the phone about our income we made the mistake of telling them we received child tax credits. The following week our assessment went up as they now took that as my hubby’s income (he isn’t working at the moment). When I rang the same woman to ask what was going on she said she had a duty to include it as his income because I had told them about it and that if I hadn’t admitted it to them there was nothing they could do.

So please….do not admit you get tax credits because their hands are tied until that point. She also said she believed it unfair for my children to pay for his….f**king jobsworth.

Complaints

I just wanted to share this with you all, because I am on the verge of giving up.

I’m a 37-year-old professional, earning around 20k a year. I split up with my ex-wife back in 2006. We have two children.

From the moment we split, the CSA was on my back. I paid about 140 quid a month for the two kids, who I had 50/50 access to.

Then, in June this year, I opened my pay packet to discover the CSA had taken 495 as an attachment from earnings. I had no idea why, so I phoned them.

They kindly explained that my schedule had been recalculated, I had underpaid and they were going to claim it back directly from my employer at 40 per cent of my gross. According to their records, I only had my son one night a week and didn’t see my daughter at all.

I told them this wasn’t the case, so they said they’d speak to my ex-wife to verify what I had said.

So, here I am, six months on and 3k down and still no resolution. My ex, who is on benefits and can’t be bothered to get out of bed in the morning, has ignored the CSA’s numerous calls, letters etc.

I have repeatedly asked her, I’ve emailed, phoned and written to the CSA explaining my dire circumstances.

The situation I face today, on December 22, 2009, is this.

I have paid my rent of 400 quid from the 770 quid I had left after the deduction. That leaves me with 370 quid. Then comes my council tax of 200 quid. That’s 170 quid left. Now my car tax of 20 quid. That’s 150 quid left. Then my utilities, of about 50 quid.

So that’s 100 quid left, to see me and my kids through until January 15, to cover food, fuel and anything unexpected that crops up.

I’m at my wits end. Today I considered jacking in my job – which I love and am successful at – because it’s not worth working 40, sometimes 50, hours a week, often at unsociable times of the day, to live on 100 quid a month.

What galls me is that if I refused to provide the CSA with accurate information, my arse would be in front of the magistrates court in a flash. I’d likely be sent to jail.

I have equal share of my kids, yet since June I have constantly struggled o be able to feed them, clothe them and entertain them.

What I really find it hard to endure is that this year I can’t even buy them Christmas presents.

I’m basically ruined and don’t know what to do anymore.

Rob, Newcastle Upon Tyne.