Husband trying to claim via CSA
February 2, 2012
My partner’s son is 18 years old. He has lived with his Mother all of his life since her and her husband divorced about 14 years ago.
Her son decided, of his own choice, to move out of the house and take up residence in our village within a mile of his home whilst finishing his A Levels this year at our local school.
He has a considerable sum in his own bank which my partner had saved for him (circa £5,000).
His Father, who lives in Staffordshire 100′s of miles away appears to be trying to claim maintenance for him via the CSA. We have written detailing the above and advising that the son is not resident with his Father but we are unsure of the guidelines in this case what recourse we have if the CSA continue to chase?
My husband shouldn’t have to pay
January 31, 2012
My husband is a fantastic dad to his 2 children and also to our own boy. He IS NOT AN ABSENT FATHER! He sees his kids almost every day he has them overnight and gives them dinner, clothes them sorts out school uniform and lunches they sleep round on 3nights a week every week. Now who can tell me he should be paying any CSA money at all! They have them about equal amounts of time and will do anything for them yet HE PAYS her and yet we don’t get anything! She gets all the child benefit also.
We have our son and he is one year old now and it is a struggle! We could do with that money to survive. What can I do about this?? It’s so unfair and causes a lot of arguments
Ex stopped paying me direct and went through CSA
January 28, 2012
I divorce my husband in Dec 2005. We had made arrangements that he would pay £660 child maintenance for our 4 kids every month. He paid cash and I gave him receipts. Then in January 2011, he decided to pay via the CSA and my payments dropped to £198 per month as he lied about his income. He has had no contact with the kids for the majority of the 6 years we have been divorced and works as a self employed personal trainer. The thing is, I was given copies of his invoices for the financial year April 200-April 2010 and hes earning approx. £2500 per month as opposed to the £1012 he has claimed to the CSA AND Inland Revenue!
I sent all the evidence to the CSA who said they couldnt do anything Read more
Can you avoid the CSA if you become your own boss?
January 23, 2012
A lot of people ask on CSAhell.com about how they can avoid getting trapped by the Child Support Agency and their use of the DEO (deduction of earnings order) to take money from non-resident parents before they’re paid by their employers. The CSA likes to get money this way because it is quicker for them, requires less (or no) interaction with the NRP and the employers have to pay it under threat of bailiffs.
But what if you’re your own boss, can you avoid paying that way?
If you’re paid through PAYE under a limited company that you own then, even if you are your own boss, you’ll come under the rules of the DEO as well. A percentage of your money, complete with anything the CSA has added on for arrears, will need to be deducted from your PAYE before you receive any money.
You’re probably thinking about dividends now, aren’t you? This is one of the most popular ways that company directors take money out of their company because of the tax advantages they hold. You will pay less tax by paying yourself in dividends than you would by paying yourself through PAYE. However, as a company director this will still classified as earnings and the CSA can, and will, demand a share of this money also.
So what advantages are there for you to be your own boss? Well, one thing you can do is to reduce your personal outgoings by using them as business expenses. For example, any mileage consumed travelling to meet clients or customers can be offset against your self-assessment. Your mobile phone, which could cost upwards of £50 per month for a Smartphone, can be owned by the business – so you personally don’t need to pay for it. The CSA can’t touch any of that money. There are many other advantages to becoming your own boss and reducing what you have to pay the CSA by reducing what you need to live on, and reducing your visible income.
It just needs a little thought and investigation.
Ex Partner refusing contact so the CSA claim more
January 18, 2012
I was just wondering if anyone could give me a bit of advice….
My partner is currently battling with his ex over contact to see his daughter. She got the CSA involved previously [for some unknown reason, even though he was already giving her more than the CSA would claim] and he now makes his monthly payments.
It has been an ongoing action of hers to refuse him to see his daughter for random, unjustified reasons, and simply will not allow him to pick his daughter up for their agreed weekend contact. There has been a phonecall Read more
Why am I paying so much?
January 17, 2012
I know there are a lot of us in the vote on here but i seem to really be getting my ass spancked i pay over £ 500.00 a month and have just been reasesed and its going up £35.00 a week so where is the insentive for me to go to work.
When speaking to them (the csa ) they say its cause my wage as increased so i can afford to pay more the only reason my wage as gone up is because ive been doing overtime so i can live. They should leave overtime alone and just stick to basic wages and all this is for just one child and at the end of the day im only a wagon driver.
There so called personal allowances are a joke they give £115.00 for housing my rent alone is that then £67.50 personal allowance ive been told off the csa that this is for gas,elec,water,tv, then theres £ 77.97 food, running of my car witch i need to get to work and for me so they say £260.47 a week is all i need to live on well it cost me £867.56 a month to run my house all in so that leave me £174.32 and break that down to weekly witch is how im paid its nothing and they talk to you like crap .
CSA advice for my dad
January 13, 2012
Hopefully someone can help, my dad split up with his ex wife 15 years ago, they had a daughter together who is now 16, my dad has always provided for my sister in every way possible she has never gone without anything, money for trips, clothes etc when she has needed them contracts phone the list could go on!! Because she threw a strop one day and she couldnt have something the same day she went to the CSA and claimed she had never Read more
Financial difficulties because of CSA and ex
January 10, 2012
My name is Debbie Hill i live at 231 0verdale road quinton birmingham b32 2rd. I have 2 children Ryan Wallcroft aged 11 and Rosie Wallcroft aged 8. I have been separated from their father for sometime but i recently contacted the csa as i was fed up of their father not paying a penny towards his children up keep. The csa started collect £10 a fortnight from his js benefits as he was out of work.
These payments have just stopped been paid.
But i know he is working 5 days a week for a fencing firm and he is still unwilling to pay anything. I think this is very unfair as i am working myself to support the children and money is very tight. I wont to know what is the next step to getting him to pay for his responsibilities. Please can you help
Why do I have to pay the CSA when i have 50/50 care of my daughter ?
January 10, 2012
In December 2011 i finally after 5 visits to Court won 50/50 care of my daughter. My ex-wife left it 12 months (apparently a CSA requirement) and then applied to get payments through the CSA from me, despite me providing for my daughter when she is with me half of the time.
Apparently she can do this because of a loophole, because she is in receipt of the child benefit payments. In hindsight i was too generous, and because my ex-wife does not work (a lifestyle decision on her part) I let her have the child benefit, as i work full time.
Technically I have my daughter 51% of the time, as I take her for a 2 week summer holiday each year. My ex-wife does not take her on any holidays, expecting me to do all of this. I should also add that my ex-wife is presently being investigated for benefit fraud, but again the CSA are not interested in this either.
CSA takes my ex’s word over mine without proof
January 9, 2012
Csa have contacted me saying I owe £4700 for arrears 2007 till 2010.
In this time my ex agreed that we would not go through Csa but pay direct. I paid £155 every month even through the times I was unemployed and also through a heart attack, the Csa contacted her and said in 2011 as my daughter is working we are closing the case and informed her there was £4700 outstanding which is made up of £30 per week for the duration.
I have sent some proof of payments in this time but a container I used got trashed and can’t find all of them, but found about £1500 worth so take one from the other you get £3200 they have £5300, my ex is one of these give a opening and she will make the most if I had not of been paying she would have been on phone years ago.
She knows I have paid in full so I asked Csa to ask her to prove I not paid. The answer stinks, if she won’t give in her bank statements they have take her word for it, they asked me to give bank statements to prove I went bankrupt 2006 and couldn’t get a bank account till last year so I paid direct into her account.
I am really struggling to get through to them to understand where I am coming from, what do I do ??”????
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