CSA and courts have let me down
March 13, 2010
1999 is when csa first became involved with my family.
i have 2 children and divorced their father at this time. he is highly unreliable so this is why i decided to involve the csa to ensure maintainance was recieved. however his current arrears stand at 30,000 pounds.
i have gone through the system so often i can tell the enforcement team what action will be taken next.but apart from the shambles of the csa the court system is also a major area of concern and a joke. 4 years ago after allowing my ex husbands debt to raise to 20,000 pounds we finally had a court hearing. my ex was informed by the judge to pay 50,00 a week from his 20 000 arrears and encouraged to pay his 45,00 regular maintainance.
my ex managed to pay this for a few months then again stopped paying anything. csa were aware of his default but Read more
My ex has paid but CSA has kept my money
March 12, 2010
I am a mother with two children and have been paid regularly for the last five years. In January the ammount i’m supposed to recieved did not go into my account.
I have called i have chased, one minute Stockport are dealing with my case then it is Plymouth, then Bolton. I am so frustrated with this situation but my ex partner has paid me and it is sitting in there system.
So far they have £600.00 of my money but keep saying someone will get back to me. I am at my wits end i do not know who to talk to or who will hwlp me but it just seems Read more
CSA does not listen to my change in circumstances
March 12, 2010
I have a 7 year old boy, i was living alone and had contact with him 2-3 days a week. I then moved in with my girlfriend in Dec 2008 , she has a 9 year old daughter. I informed the CSA about my change in circumstance and they did NOTHING , my son then came to live with me full time in October 2009.
I informed the CSA and they did NOTHING! I was then granted full residency order by a UK court of law. I sent this info into the CSA and they did NOTHING, they keep trying to take 400 pounds out of my account every month , and are threatening me , i am at my wits end!!
Robert
CSA complaint sent to ombudsman
March 11, 2010
I am writing this letter in the hope that it finds the correct person, someone who can take a third party perspective and ensure CSA meet their responsibilities.
I have broken this down into two components (My Case) and (My Complaint) I contacted the CSA agency and was refused assistance, so this method at least leaves a paper trail.
My Case………….
Due to an excess payment plan arranged between myself and the CSA I have now caught up with my CSA arrear payment obligations and am now at a stage where excess payments will now pay the late payment penalty accrued over the last 15 years of around Read more
CSA do not listen to me
March 11, 2010
it all started when i left a low paid job for what i got told was better pay so i did what ive allways done for the past 7 and half year i got in touch with the csa and gave them all the realivent information.
then next minute i was getting letters from them saying youve got till this date to corrisponed. then 2 days after i got another letter saying they where capping my wages 2 180pw. anything over that the csa was taking. i kept phoning and pleading with them just to listen and talking it all through with them but they didn’t want to listen. all they where bothered bout was what was on there screen.
out of the 180pw i had my rent and other bills and also had maintance 2 my other ex for my Read more
Why are we paying CSA when my kids get next to nothing?
March 10, 2010
let me start by saying the original CSA must have been the idear of a bitter ex wife, who thinks that the father dosent have the right to a new life or new family, and the new CSA are ignorant crooks who pull figures out there ass.
I,m sure anyone reading this will have guessed by now that i am the NRP new wife and mother to his other 3 children, well i say new wife we,ve been married 8 years.
let me tell you my story – the CSA affects the lives of everyone involved with it.
when i met my husband he was a young corpral in the army, he was paying his ex wife £500 per month, yes you saw that right £500 per month for 1 child, after the marrage ended becouse she had an affair, not only did she leave my husband in all the debt they had together but not being happy with that she took him Read more
CSA tell me to use a credit card to pay them
March 10, 2010
Recently the CSA have recalculated the ammount I should pay towards my son without beforehand contacting me. The ammount they calculate I owe based on my average income over the year, after my rent, council tax, electric and heating bills leaves me with only £17.50 per week to live off! How is this meant to cover clothes, food, car insurance, fuel etc?
What makes this worse is the fact that they have backdated the ammount to september, so I have to pay an extra £30 per week on top of that until later this year! So every week I will have to borrow money to pay them, as well as borrowing money to feed myself and my partner who is a student! How can they leave people in poverty and get away with it?
Not only have I had problems with the ammount they wish me to pay, but the CSA have lied to Read more
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
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