Fathers Avoiding the CSA
For 9 years my daughter’s father has been actively avoiding the CSA. It’s bad enough he has decided to take nothing to do with her (although his friends are all under the impression I am keeping him from her!)but he would rather she went without than let her have a penny.
After years of jumping from job to job to avoid paying he seem to have given up work completely and somehow has managed to buy a house and a car. Presumably his new wife is supporting him.
After some digging I have discovered he is doing some casual labour but the CSA have advised me that the inland revenue would view this as too small a case to investigate if he is working alone.
As a result he will be assessed as having no income (when the inspectors finally meet him)and will not owe us a penny.
The CSA spent so much time and money tracking theses guys down just to give up and decide to take no action.
On top of this I am viewed, by everyone he knows, as an evil women keeping a doting father from his daughter!!!!!
Can anything else be done or does no one care that he is willing to break the law to avoid supporting his own child?
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Yes try get yourself a job and stop moaning and wasting time chasing him.
I mean if all you’ve got to do is chase him for what is next to nothing you are wasting your time. If you are getting benefits then your as bad as him. Life on benefits is not an excuse.
To Brian, you’ve oviously nothing good to say on the matter so just shut up!!!
Brian not everyone is a scrounger. The CSA is supposed to be there to help ensure the child or children are supported by both parents but they constantly get it wrong. Some are made to pay way more than they can afford leaving them with very little left to live on themselves and others like Lyndsey and myself have ex partners who refuse to give the necessary information to calculate anything at all which means it’s the child who loses out.
My ex has a new partner and is happy to spoil her children whilst his own daughter is left feeling unloved with nothing. Personally i work and will do all i can to ensure she doesn’t go without but it makes my blood boil to think he can just walk away and although they know where he lives and works they just keep writing letters which he ignores and after 6 months they still haven’t made a decision….i say tell him a ridiculous figure he will have to pay until he gives them the correct information and then you can be sure the matter would be resolved very quickly.
I dont want to rob him i just want him to be responsible for his daughter. When she wanted to live with him i was happy to pay my share so why cant he do the same? Because his new partner wants his money for her family and the CSA do nothing to make him contribute to his daughters care.
I can sympathise with you Lindsey the CSA should stand for Constantly Sodding About because all i seem to hear is how they get it wrong.
Just to pit things into prospective.
I have just received my bi-annual CSA letter informing of fictitious ‘arrears’.
As before I will appeal.
I pay my dues like most other fathers; not a penny more or less.
The CSA was created to deal with wayward feckless fathers like the one(s) mentioned above.
Instead they waste too much time persecuting those, like myself, who do pay; and pay the correct ammount.
Vent your anger to the CSA; tell your MP to get the CSA to do the job it was created for, ie chase absent fathers, not those who pay.
Hey Brian
I work 47 hours a week supporting a child created by 2 people. Iv never claimed benefits in my life. If all you’ve got to do is slag off hard working mothers then why dont you get a life!
Fathers Avoiding the CSA?
‘Mothers sponging off benefits’!
Brian and John you need to take a good long look at yourselves and be ashamed, because of people like you – none of us are getting the justice we deserve, Im a single mother and was conned by my ex and my children didnt get supported financially by him properly, but I know not all fathers are like that and are supporting their children and are paying over the top because of ex’s like mine, likewise, mothers who wont and dont work because they expect the state (me being a taxpayer) to support them as my ex has a few of them too! We need to work together not slag one another down – thats why we are getting nowhere with the being taken seriously about the probs that the CSA has caused for people working the system and others paying the price for that!
Elaine,
I do understand your problem with your daughters dad. My situation is exactly the same. I work he does not. i only started getting CSA money when she was 10 and it is £7 per weeek which is taken directly out of any money he has.
However, It might take me up to a month to get the money. At the moment he owes months of money bu because of his low income i will never see it!
Sometimes i wonder if the CSA was worthe contacting at all.
However the govement said they would reduce any payments made by them if i did not tell the CSA the name of my daughters father so they could chase him!
Good luck and your daughter will always love you but will the feeling be with her father!
Karen bedford.
The headline is ‘Fathers Avoiding the CSA;!
This is portraying other fathers as if they don’t care about their children, and irrespective of circumstances the majority of fathers do care!
I agree that we should act together to shut the shambolic CSA down, and find a system that embraces both pwc’s and nrp’s in a fairer way, instead of criminalising parents who are nrp’s and who are paying, whilst others are ‘let off’ and have their debt written off!
Thanks Elaine and all the other females who said “get a life”..thank you but I do have one. However the CSA are destroying it and there is NO system or legal process in place to fairly complain or kick the CSA where it hurts.
Its amazing to read about feckless fathers, bash absent fathers as its always much louder to shout out about than “feckless women or mothers”.
Yes two people may or may not have decided to have a child BUT its men who get kicked in everyway in the nuts. I don’t see the legal system backing fathers rights to access or rights of access? do you. Nor do i read about a mother supporting access rights for fathers who Do pay and work hard – NOPE just pure greed by women.
The CSA is unfair but it is “BREEDING” the notion to PWCs particulary that its a money spinner for those who use it. Isn’t a shame when your ex husband is homeless, broke, maybe working 3 jobs and yet you still want more. Any women outthere homeless because of the CSA?
I’m all for fairness but right now the balance is far to much swayed towards women – mothers – PWC.
MEN DON’T EXIST ANYMORE!
I wrote ‘get a life’ because you were abusive to me. I know only too well the hell that decent men go through. I took on a second job to help my husband pay off nearly £4000 worth of ‘debt’ to the CSA. Despite our MP getting involved and us being issued a letter of apology for the undercalculation and £100 in compensation he was still made to pay this debt on top of the new higher payments.
My ex is not homeless. He goes on holiday twice a year, has a new car and owns his own home. He is also out every weekend.
He also did not need to fight for access. He just got bored with his daughter.
Also I am not greedy and wanting more. If Im receiving nothing, then more could be a fiver a week for all I care. Its about fairness. I was trying to get my point across that the CSA dont go far enough. They spend all their resources fighting the wrong people.
Hey Brian..It’s blokes like you who lose out eventually..The kids you leave behind tend to grow up into adults..I work to support the kids that my Ex can’t even be bothered to contact.Every spare penny I have goes on my kids..The rest goes on bills..I don’t go out, I don’t drink, I don’t smoke..My kids come first..I could’ve walked away too just like the Ex did, stuck the kids in care and had all my wages to Myself..I didn’t because my kids are the most precious things in my life and I resent irresponsible creeps like you making ill educated judgements like the one above. All my kids are University material..Had the Ex paid anything it would’ve gone into a bank account ready for when they needed it not frittered away on junk or to finance a life of luxury for Myself..Dead beat Fathers are the losers at the end of the day not the parents who stick around to support their kids…
Shame on you Brainless brian