Ex made a false claim as daughter lives with me
August 29, 2010
I have 3 children, a step daughter of 27, a daughter of 24 and a son from a different marraige of 17. I enjoy my time with my family and have always enjoyed long and protracted contact with all my kids.
I work for a newspaper for £1,500 gross per year. (Yeah pathetic I know, but that’s another story) I opened my payslip last week to find £271 and change had been removed from my salary. Leaving me with £660 to live on for a month.
I contacted my payroll who informed me it was the CSA. I spoke to them immediately and was told it was for £7,997 arrears for my 24 year old daughter.
Er….she lived with me from the age of 13 as a result of a place of safety award as her mother was a Read more
CSA is useless, but selfish father is the real problem
August 28, 2010
The csa is a total, utter waste of time. After a court hearing for contact, the judge informed my ex he’d need anger management and supervised visits as my sons were scared of him. This was enough for the spiteful bastard to stop paying just in time for Christmas and their birthdays! This was Dec ’06. My case has since gone from Plymouth to Hastings to Belfast (he is self-employed) where it basically rotted in a drawer after being “misplaced” before finding a home in Newcastle.
In this time my ex had taken out an IVA (ran up 5 credit card debts to force sale of house!) – gone bankrupt – had the bankruptcy discharged after 8mths – continued to pay for an older daughter (£300pm)and earnt in the region of £200,000. He wont pay because he doesn’t want to… it makes a mockery of all the fathers out there that are paying for their kids and still being hounded. My case actually went to court in Aug’09 to obtain a liability order and I didn’t know til earlier this year..he did! There is now a query on it and can’t be enforced as he decided there was a change in his circumstances requiring a re-assessment. There is also a pymnt in court notes of £7700 which he says he paid directly to me but I never recieved. The one pymnt I did get was through the bailiffs.
That was May’10 and the bailiff action has been suspended 3 times since and won’t Read more
Protracted dispute with missing CSA payments
August 27, 2010
Over a period of over a decade I have experienced consistent errors and failure on the part of the Child Support Agency to implement the collection and enforcement of child support orders for my two sons. (now 16 and 23 years old)
During a protracted dispute over the last few months while attempting to agree on an accurate figure for the arrears owed on behalf of my youngest son, I requested a complete breakdown of my account and subsequently discovered numerous discrepancies between the CSA record and my personal bank records which appear to demonstrate that the CSA has, in fact, collected a considerable amount of child support on behalf of my son, but failed to disburse to me in full. A simple comparison between easily verifiable records will demonstrate clear discrepancies resulting in an accumulative shortfall of over £3000 in missing funds over the last decade.
I have of course questioned these discrepancies and requested proof of payment, however I seem to have reached something of a stalemate in that the CSA complaints department refuses to investigate beyond their own computer records, adamantly maintaining that their records are correct, and that I have been Read more
‘Shambles’ CSA admits another mistake
August 18, 2010
I have had contact with the CSA as a PWC and an NRP. I have been treated differently on both counts. My ex went to the CSA when I turned down her over zealous demand for far too much money from me. I paid Child support from day one. I counter claimed and she was ‘let off’ her responsibility for the child living with me for two years. One rule for me, different rules for her, but thats the shambolic CSA! Over ten years I have had to complain persisitently and in 2005, a report concluded that the CSA had made 15 mistakes with my case 5 of which were serious bordering on criminal. It gets better, in 2009 I informed them that a child was out of the system aged 19. They wrote to me stating that THEY had made a mistake with my case and that I owed £7000 in arrears.
I believe this to be a blatant lie to scr-w more money out of me to earn staff bonuses! The CSA then dumped a DEO on my income. They are a total shambles and a disgrace! I appealed to a tribunal and the ajudicator was a ‘planted’ solicitor employed by and acting for Read more
CSA calculations will make my children homeless
August 13, 2010
I had a daughter by my first partner 11 years ago and paid by direct agreement when we split up. After being made redundant in December 2008 I had to reduce payments at which stage she stopped me seeing my daughter and took me to the CSA. In the same time I have 2 children by my now ex-wife (because of the stress from CSA) and pay a £1200 mortgage and £750 direct for the children.
The CSA calculate and do not count these figures for an overall variation, awarding the first partner more money than is left from my overall salary after paying the £1950 to the ex.
Obviously this basically means I won’t keep my job for long as I struggle to get there or have anywhere to stay, I will have to cut money to the ex and this would effectively cost her the property the 2 children live in. How is this supposed to sit within the idea of the CSA who then simply talk to you as dirt?
CSA accuses me of fraud despite their mistake
August 11, 2010
My ex ran off with another woman when my daughter was 6. This was a bolt from the blue and he left us without any money. He had a capital sum so I was advised by a solicitor to take him to court for a lump sum. He kept delaying proceedings and by the time it got to court the money (proceeds from our business sale) had disappeared. So I was advised to apply to the CSA. For years I got nothing at all, although he was a self-employed film director/script writer and was travelling the world and having expensive holidays with yet another woman. The CSA admitted to me that they knew he was lying about his income, but could not do anything as he was self-employed.
After many years the CSA finally caught up with him and agreed he could pay a laughable £5.20 a week, by this time my daughter was 12. He paid the CSA (in cash) weekly. When my daughter was 19 the CSA said he had to carry on paying at the same rate until the 6 years arrears had been paid. This he has done (still in cash) on a weekly basis.
Last year I was informed he was terminally ill and the CSA said that when he died any unpaid arrears would Read more
Axe Murder at the Child Support Agency
August 10, 2010
Coming soon to a theatre near you is ‘Axe Murder at the Child Support Agency’. This completely fictitious movie is based on a thousand true stories of how the CSA has driven men to the verge of violence, despair and, in many cases, suicide.
Maybe this film will happen one day, maybe it will be based on true events – maybe David Cameron will spare the film from happening by taken his own axe to the CSA and getting rid of them once and for all.
In the meantime however, we can enjoy the imagery of what could be if someone did take an axe to the CSA, using a real axe. As the poster says, this is filmed on location at the CSA offices in Belfast, Birkenhead, Dudley, Falkirk, Hastings and Plymouth.
What do you think of the film idea? We think it’s a winner… possibly by Michel Winner. Calm down dear, it’s only an axe.
Ex has lied to CSA for 9 years
August 8, 2010
I have been seperated from my ex partner for 8 years now. He has never paid anything and the csa promised me they would help. I heard nothing from them for the first 5 years even though i contacted them telling them my ex was working.
The csa claimed they sent him a form to set up a direct debit…suprise suprise he didnt return it. After numerous phone calls from me to them telling them where he was working and where he lived, the csa still did nothing. My ex claimed he was on benefits after they tracked him down (after i threatened legal action against them) they proved he was working and did an attachment of earnings i had a payment every month for 4 months and then he stops paying saying he lost his job.
After my ex bragged about working nights and going on expensive holidays i contacted csa last month and heard nothing, i sent an email on friday saying i was taking legal action and i litrally got a phone call an hour later. They told me that they had proof my ex was on benefits i asked them what proof, they told me it was a hand written letter from him saying he was in reciept of benefis, (if this is ”proof” i shall write them a hand written letter saying im cindy crawford!!) suprise suprise i again am doing all their work for them i have proven he is working and where he works……so after an hour on the phone they have told me my ex is now going to court as he owes me 2000 pounds and thats just the arrears…how on earth has it managed to go this far ???
The csa needs a major overhaul, the departent for working pensions should take over and maintenance should be taken out of absent parents wages as tax and N.I is. The csa should work like any other debt collection agency if you dont pay then the baillifs come and take your stuff and sell it at auction.
My son is now 9 and im sick of struggling to pay for things and the guilty feeling you have when you say no to them because you cant afford it is awful, meanwhile my ex swans off to spain, barcelona and is planning on many more holidays..as he so stupidly brags about on a well known social networking site. My ex has lied for 9 years, he has given fraudulant information and has avoided paying, why on earth is he allowed to get away with this? Im passed from pillar to post when ringing csa im given wrong information and i couldnt even tell you who my case worker is but i do know he or she must have a hearty appetite as they are always ” on their dinner break at the moment”.
I send them an email and they say im getting angry with them , well what do they expect?, if they did their jobs they wouldnt have this problem.
CSA is paying my money to someone else
August 5, 2010
I am a parent with care and have been dealing with the csa for just over 10 years now. I just go round and round in circles.
I live in Northern Ireland but because my case is quite complicated (has been through just about every dept. in csa including Enforcement and EJO) it has become a clerical case i.e part of my case is dealt with by csa Belfast and the other part by csa Crewe, meaning I have to speak to 2 CSA DEPARTMENTS!! – Double the fun !!!!
My ex partner has eventually started making payments (after 9 years of avoiding this!!) but CSA Crewe have been incorrectly dividing the payments between myself and the other parent on this case – resulting every month in MY PAYMENTS BEING AROUND £50.00 SHORT!!! This has been going on since last October, I still have yet to receive a penny of this money!!
I tried making another complaint but have got nowhere: they told me that they will have to carry out a full account breakdown to see how much I have been underpaid every month and this will take a MINIMUM of 12 weeks! Also when they do finally calculate how much they owe me, this amount WILL NOT BE PAID OUT TO ME BUT WILL JUST BE ADDED ON TO MY ARREARS!!! AAAARRRRGGHH.
I have decided to write to the Chief Executive of the CSA however when I asked a supervisor for Read more
My ex pays nothing through the CSA
August 2, 2010
I recently split with my ex who i met 3 yrs ago and we now have a 7mnth old son. He was always in and out of work and when ever i asked him to buy something for the baby the answer was “I cant i’m sorry, got no money“…
I put up with this for a few weeks after my son was born but then finally got intouch with the csa has my ex had started a new job. I felt that it was the only way i was ever going to get help with contributing to my sons cost of living…after i got of the phone i felt relieved as they were very helpful and told me that i was going to get money that my child was entitled to and i recieved a letter saying i would get £13 a week, however this was not the case as it took them a mnth to deal with my claim and by this time my ex was out of work again. He knew if he stayed in work he would have to pay money to csa which he was not happy about so therefor left to go bk on the dole and i then recieved a letter saying i was now entitled to £0.
He has had a new job since this and worked for a mnth before he left again…. He recieved £750 wages and since leaving signed bk on the dole so also recieved his £140 every 2 weeks, he will also be recieving holiday pay at the end of the mnth and from all of this my son has recieved nothing. CSA have now written to tell me as he is bk on the dole and on a low income i am entitled to £2.50 a week!!! how the hell do they fig that out? People are always so quick to blame the mothers but in some cases i think fathers get away with providing for there kids… why should they be able to dodge the system and not provide for there kids? It makes me sick… its a parent job to Read more
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