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What if I can’t afford to pay the CSA?


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2 Responses to “What if I can’t afford to pay the CSA?”

  1. Simon on January 20th, 2011 3:56 pm

    Simple one really

    My ex-wife refused to accept my maintenance payments for my children as paart of an access dispute. A year later, through the court process I started to try and get access by, she made a CSA claim for maintenance, even though she originally refused my money!

    Anyway, getting to the Point, the CSA have now made their assessment and I cannot afford it due to my other financial commitments (I’m not talking about a lavish lifestyle, just rent, food, essential bills).

    What do I do, where do I stand? I know the CSA comes first, bit this now leaves me about £300 p.m. short. It Does doesn’t seem fair that they just base their assessment on how much I earn. I earn a good wage, but because of where I live, living costs are high. I have arrears of £900 which they agreed to spread over a year but even without the arrears I cannot afford the payments.

  2. Emma on September 19th, 2011 11:15 am

    Hi, my boyfriend is having a similar problem. He has no issue paying the csa, however taking into consideration cost of living the payments are far too high. His ex has never wanted money off him before but all of a sudden has got the csa involved and now he owes back payments. But same as you even the basic cost is going to cripple us financially. We’re renting atm and i’m not sure we’re going to be able to even afford that anymore, let alone buy somewhere eventually loike we’ve had planned. Just wondering really if you sorted this at all?

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