Comments on: CSA Reassess me after 8 years

By: James O

James O — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:52:38 +0000

Kaoto -

I have said it before i’d say it 100 times..

for my child i’d be HAPPY to pay nursery fee’s so my lazy handout workshy ex can get herself back to work and earn her own worth!

I dont want my child without — but women allways cry fowl — expecting to be paid for. If your ex offered you to pay for childcare fee’s – most women are so lazy and bone idle that they couldn’t even gain employment of any meaning.

By: kaoto

kaoto — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:11:45 +0000

my lovely ex lied about what he was earning, didn’t pay anything for 9 years and I am told that even though he earns far in excess of the basic £200 rate, there is no limit on how much he can claim for housing costs, so I am left with nothing to bring up our child on, he doesnt’ bother to see the child and manages quite cleverly to avoid payment – so just to let you know it works both ways. Anybody that is the carer for a child understands there are a lot more expenses involved than just food, kids cost loads and most of the absent fathers I hear about manage to hide most of what they earn and accuse the mother of all sorts of things, the CSA isn’t fair on the mothers side either, under their rules you can earn anything over £200 and you only pay £5 of the first £100 and only 15% of the next £100 and there are loads of little get out clauses that can help you, so if you feel that £30 odd pounds fully supports your childs life when they are not with you in this current economic climate with the sort of social, financial and nutritional needs a growing child has then you are deluded !

By: j

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:04:36 +0000

I have every sympathy, sounds like you better going through the Deduction of Earnings as they have to leave you at a protected income level, if you have children living with you now and your partner is on a low wage you are better off declairing it, they cannot take more than a 3rd of your wage and additional arrears can be mutual arrangement with your case-worker, i would offer £5 per week to keep em off your back, good luck.

By: csavictim

csavictim — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:49:16 +0000

I have just had a simalar problem with them, My child turned 18 last month is now working and has moved out, yet my ex has told the CSA the child is still living with her. Not only will they not take my word for it but they refuse to talk to the Child who is now considered an adult! Ok if I have to pay for another year to save them stealing it from my wages at least let me pay direct to the Child – no the mother has to have her hand out!
raig – next time they are rude or in the slightest way unhelpful, call back via a different number and insist on speaking to a manager, then insist that the individuals are to have no further dealings or access to your case. it may take a while but eventually they get the message that you wont put up with their nonsense.

By: craig

craig — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:11:29 +0000

Hi you case is like mine the CSA reassesed me and back dated it 4 years
saying the i owed them 2.000 pounds.
I told them that they are wrong as that would take over half my wage but they diddnt care. 3 months later they said it was wrong and droped my payments by half but then said the would not back date the assesment as i would not hand over my partners wage slips.so the debt reset to the new rate and they will not take in to account the fact that they own me money !!!!!!
my house is on the line as i can not now meet my morgage payments
and i have just had to sell my car to help pay the second 2.000 pounds CSA this year.

The starff are not helpful and 2 lads in the assement team are just rude
CSA YOU WILL MAKE ME LOSE MY CAR,JOB AND HOME then how will i pay you
your 560 ponds a month ( my wage is only 1000 pounds a month) and yes i do know that the cant touch all of it cheers for you time

raig

By: jue

jue — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:50:43 +0000

Thanks CHALL I am quite well read up now on the law of payment qualification, my concern with regard to a new csa assessment was that although we reported repeatedly to the csa that the claim was fraudulent because we knew the “child” was not attending anywhere, all there concern was that they had checked child benefit was still being claimed, it was , end of. After a lot of stress our case has now been closed because of the reasons I was giving csa it just took a long time to get there, I wonder if the PWC has been persued for time wasting and fraud?

By: chall

chall — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:05:31 +0000

A child is defined as a person;

* under 16; OR
* under 19 (under 20 in some cases) and in full-time education doing a course that is not higher than A-level or an equivalent standard or on a Government-funded training programme; OR
* 16 or 17 and has recently left school and registered for work or training with the Careers or Connexions Service or something similar
(exclusions to the above are if the child is/ has been married or in a civil partnership)

After leaving school or college, a child still counts as a being in f/t education until the end of a fixed period after they leave, which coincides with the beginning of the next school term (terminal date) OR until their 19th birthday, which ever is soonest.
If a child is under school leaving age when they leave school, they are treated as leaving school on the date s/he reaches that age.

If a young person does any paid work of 24 hrs or more a week before the terminal date, s/he is no longer counted as a child unless the work is temporary and expected to end before the terminal date.

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