CSA Appeals is a waste of time
March 9, 2010
Am a nsp you lives 174 miles from my son.
I live with my partner and 2 children with just me working. On top of my monthly payments i have to pay out fuel for a 796 round trip if my son is to visit as the mother is not interested in driving jhim any or part of the way this can make my overall payment up 2 £250 when as a family we are only bringing in just under £1500. I put this to the csa, not interested, so i took it to appeal the judge voted in my favour and I won with a fuel allowence! Great I thought untill the csa used there own calculation for varence order including my fuel allowance given by the judge my payments still stay the same!! so tell me whats the fucking point in the tribunal it’s worthless!!!
FUSSTARTING to say the least!
CSA want fifty grand after 14 years
March 9, 2010
I have a 17 year old child and at the age of 2 i split up with my ex and the csa got involved, so my ex wrote a letter to the csa saying she didnt want them involved, we would sort out our own arrangments. Which worked fine, then 15 years later a brown envelope came through the door demanding 50 thousand pound – which i ignored.
Now they threaten me with jail. No passport and no licence, but one good thing if they lock me up it costs the tax payer around 900 pound aweek to keep a prisoner so good luck csa lock me up.
Ex lies to CSA about his income
March 8, 2010
I have a 2 and a half year old whose father refuses to pay a penny to her upbringing. He refuses to see her and even resents the fact the rest of his family see her.
Over to the csa I contacted them after he flat out refused to pay child maintanence. They couldnt trace him, he isnt registered as liing with his new partner so couldnt find the address. The only address they did get was his mums, Where he has his bank registered and also where his tax returns go as hes self employed.
So now the income. He is self employed and has admitted to being paid 15 an hour and works 40 hour weeks. He refused to contact the csa so they had to go to the inland revenue for his income and said he only had to pay 5 a week. As it turns out he doesnt declare Read more
CSA has fabricated arrears for when I was not working
March 8, 2010
I dont now where to turn. The csa say i am in arreas but i dont now how.
Last septemer they started taking a extra 25.00 out of my pay when i phoned them they said my employer had not payed. When i contacted my employer they showed me every thing that had gone out and no they had not missed any payment.
Then i went off on sick ended up in hospital. I was off work then for 16 wks. I have now gone back to work and they are sill taking the 20.00 extra i now they are entiteled to 5.00 a wk when i was off sick and i have taken that in to account and yet the say i am Read more
I’m a PWC and I hate the CSA
March 7, 2010
I was a single parent for 8 years with four children and did not receive a single penny from my ex-husband who was assessed every 6 months as 0 contribution under the old system. He’s self employed and declares little of his earnings to the inland revenue. He led, and still leads a lavish lifestyle with numerous holidays abroad every year.
Our two eldest children grew up and left home, despite having no financial contributions from my ex, I was able to support our children through university. I agreed for my two sons to live with their father and was pursued by the CSA as soon as they left. I payed every month, one month I was called at work to say my ex was not happy that he had not received payment, but payment was taken by the CSA directly from my wages. On another occasion I had paid too much and they sent me a cheque to my previous address!
In August 2007 one of my sons decided he wanted to live with me and I contacted the CSA who told me that I could not have his name taken off my ex-husband’s maintenance claim until I was in receipt of Child Benefit. I called them when I got the CB sorted out and they advised me to make an application – I did this online and was given a reference number, however it was never acknowledged but I know it was received because all correspondence with the CSA was previously in my old name and I made my application in my newly married name which was reflected on the next letter I had from them regarding the payments I needed to make.
It took 9 months before they finally sorted it out so that I was Read more
Lost my house because of Child Support Agency
March 6, 2010
The CSA run up debts (mine) of £14,000 resulting in coming to an “agreement” (blackmail) by my ex to sell my property and pay her £5000 in cash – the CSA told me they would writ ethe other 9k off and I would effectively start again – they advise dme she could not go back on her word (she did) and they then demanded the other 9k meaning I was now renting just as house prices went through the roof (am still renting 7 years later) they then took me to court and found me guilty of wilfully obstructing payment (I wasn’t) and more recently had £400 to get through December with – they took half of it or I would be sent to jail – I got a letter this morning saying Read more
PWC using my children against me
March 6, 2010
I guess the only way out of it is suicide, Im wobbling on the edge of doing it myself!
I have 2 boys 19 and 16, not seen them for years, she stopped me seeing them when I left her just after the second one was born. She was always going out with her mates at my expense, staying out leaving me to babysit, coming in at all hours, so in the end I told her ive had enough of her ways after several warnings of threats of leaving. As soon as I was out of the door she was on the phone to the CSA!.
I had an attatchment of earnings order slapped on me for 110 a week, I was only on 130 a week so I quit my job! I got another job to fob them off as I had it in my mind that if I cant see them Im not paying!! I went from job to job address to address from then on until I was arrested at work and put before the judge. I owed over 25k in arrears and was told I was to pay £300 a month and I was on a suspended sentence, if I miss any payments I will be back in court where they will order commital for 42 days! That was in june 2008.
I was injured in an accident last july (2009) and off work for 2 months. I am self employed and didnt get sick pay, so I had to borrow off Read more
I could lose my home because of CSA mistake
March 5, 2010
In September 09 i recieved a letter from the CSA stating my payments were going down to £7 a week due to a change in the PWC circumstances. I knew this to be wrong and questioned it three times. the CSA confirmed the payments were correct. However two weeks later a review of my case was made in which i then was assessed as having to pay an extra £50 A month instead making my payments £170 Pm. I have two other children living with me with my partner who currently works part time.
I have a mortgage etc and am finding the new payments hard. i was told that this review of payments would last Read more
CSA has ‘found’ money that I owe them
March 5, 2010
I have been paying via the CSA for my son for the last thirteen years. Last year, the amount I was paying was reviewed. This was at the request of my ex. The amount increased considerably and because of the time she put in the request until the time a decision was reached there were arrears to be paid.
The sum they came up with was over £2500 Try as I might, I couldn’t get this sum to fit with the calcuations I could make based on what was paid and what was owed. I requested and received a full review of every request made by the CSA and every payment made by me. This showed that I had actually overpaid £2700 over the years. As the CSA were very insistant that I Read more
CSA want to send me to prison
March 4, 2010
Hi all, Im just waiting for my court date to arrive where I expect i will be sent to prison for 42 days for breaching my payment order. I dont want to bore anyone with all the exact ins and outs but I will try and keep it short!
I met a woman and was seeing her for about 2 months, then she told me she was pregnant! we moved in together and she was always going out on the beer leaving me to babysit, after a while I gave her an ultimatum, stop taking the p*** or im leaving. Things improved for a while then it was back to normal, I wasnt being a doormat any longer so I left.
She went to the CSA the next day and told me never to see her and the kids again, she moved house, never knew where she went nobody would tell me. Csa found me through my work and I had an attatchment of earnings order for £110 a week because I didnt respond to any letters, I was only earning £160 a week so I panicked and quit my job!
I decided then that why should I pay if I cant see my kids. I moved from house to house and job to job, I know it was the wrong thing to do but I was acting on principal. I was caught a couple of times and ended up in court , arrears still mounting. I then was told by her ex best mate that she had been sleeping with her Read more
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