CSA doesn’t care about the children I look after

June 20, 2012

I was contacted by the CSA at the end of April, my ex had contacted them for a calculation. I have gave them all the details including my other son who i pay maintenance for and a child i have living with me. they have done my calculation for 1 son and disregarded the other 2 children i pay for.

The calculation was based on my salary but only for one son and not for the other 2 hence a large amount of money 170 pound a week. I have always had a maintenance payment set up and never missed a payment but the new payments are only for one son and are totally unaffordable as i still pay maintenance to another partner for another son but they say this isnt calculated as i dont pay this through the CSA.

I cant believe the CSA have totally disregarded 2 children in my maintenance calculation although i have sufficient evidence i pay for these children. The calculation is now going to cause me hardship and affect 2 other children. Everytime i contact the CSA they say its being dealt with in another case but cannot be taken into account until it goes through the CSA. Why do they disregard other children i believe this to be totally against the principle of child support as in their eyes these children dont exist?

What are my options?

Comments

  • chall says:

    Steve,

    On present rules children living in the household of the non resident parent, that meet the criteria, gain a reduction of either 15% for 1, 20% for 2, 25% for 3 or more, prior to the liability being calculated for the qualifying child/ren.

    If you are paying child maintenance for other children and the agreement has no involvement from the CSA, they will NOT take it into consideration.You would need to open cases for your other children with the CSA.
    Your total liability for 3 qualifying children would be 25% of your income (less shared care etc if applicable), after 15% had been deducted for your relevant other.

    chall ~ afairercsaforall

  • Zoe says:

    Chall we all know the rules they are available online & in those brochures they send out. What Steve is saying is that if he already has a private arrangement in place that has been working fine for a number of yrs to ignore the child/payment or be forced to make that child’s pwc also go threw the csa is not fair or inline with the child support act that they claim to follow.

    My husband has 3 children. 1 that doesn’t exsist according to the csa, because he is abroad but guess what food & clothing is not free in any country. 1 in England who’s evil mother uses as a weapon & gets full csa. And our child together that dispite over 20 phone calls since her birth 8 months ago receives nothing/no reduction as they have a backlog, the latest excuse.

    No child should be forced to live in poverty or be disadvantaged therefor if you can prove you pay for other children under a private arrangement then this should be enough. The amount should not effect their calculations as they are worked out on percentages but you can’t expect to ignore a child in favour of another.

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