CSA want me to pay arrears when I wasn’t working
February 27, 2010
have always worked and paid CSA payments. Unfortunately two years ago I lost my job, I received JSA for six months and the CSA deducted the Flat rate of £5 per week from my benefit.
When my benefit ceased, I called the CSA and told them, they confirmed that I didn’t need to pay anything as I no longer received an income.
Eighteen months later, I receive an Enforcement Letter for £1500 worth of arrears. They can’t really explain what these are for and they have records of the phone call I made confirming that I didn’t need to pay. Now they are insisting that I need to pay the arrears.
Out of what, I am not sure as I have no income. I live with my new partner and our two small children. My new partner works part time and recieves an income and Child Tax Credit.
The Child Tax Credit is paid to my partner for our two children, yet the CSA are demanding that part of this now needs to go to my ex for my 18 year old son.
How can this possibly be fair. I am responsible for my son, not my new partner and If I had a job I would be paying maintenance. As I am not working, it cannot possibly be deemed reasonable for my new partner to take her tax credits which are surely for our children and give them to my ex? HOW CAN THIS BE LEGAL. I have checked on the CSA website and can find no information relating to Child Tax Credit
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Hi l sto,
On CS2, child tax credits are deemed as income of the non resident parent.
Yes unfortunately it is legal. I even got my Labour MP involved who wrote to them explaining it was dispicable they were forcing my children to pay for my husbands child as he wasn’t working but they made her look completely stupid when they wrote back explaining it was her government who made the law that allowed them to do just that! Despite the fact that we get those CTC because we have children not husbands….and we have been deemed poor enough to be eligible…makes me sick! Did you also know if you don’t tell them you get tax credits they cannot go behind your back and ask the DWP for your details. You have to actually tell them you get tax credits even if it’s on the phone then they can.
Grrrr!
How is this not fair? If you begin a relationship with someone who has children, surely you take on some responsibility for those children? If a man isn’t working but living off his partner, even though he has children somewhere else, who is going to support them….or perhaps once he leaves one set of children and has another, you think that those first children no longer cost any money? That it’s okay for them to go without so long as his new children are happy and cared for?
This kind of double standard makes me sick and women who get themselves pregnant to men who don’t support the children they already have are both selfish and foolish. Selfish because they’re basically saying it’s okay to go round fathering children and then leaving them in poverty. Foolish because if he didn’t support the first lot, why would he treat the next lot any differently?
why does everyone assume the man is just some irresponsible git who has upped and left because he lacks maturity and morals? My partner and the most wonderful daddy to our daughter, left his ex after she had sordid sex with his best mate. I think that was pretty justified. Since then she’s behaved in the same vicious revengeful way towards him. Their child wears rags because child care is quite a long way down on her list. Her elder daughter from a previous man is aged 17 and expecting her second child. These women trap men, get pregnant then use them as a meal ticket via the csa. My partner was unemployed for 3 years and was single for that time but the csa want 10k arrears from him. So, go figure that! I hate the csa and i equally hate the sorts of loose women who trap men and use them. Hopefully