http://www.csahell.com/forums/ CSA advice forum: Recent Posts en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:32:10 +0000 http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/fight#post-59 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:56:12 +0000 hsa1 59@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I did not mean to a create group, please ignor, How do I delete this group? Any idea anyone? </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/group-action-against-secretary-of-state#post-58 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:49:55 +0000 hsa1 58@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I will support any action against the CSA. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/fight#post-57 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:47:17 +0000 hsa1 57@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>dear friends, I will support the fight against CSA becouse of the hell they have and is putting me through.They claim my arrears is around £8000 and now have passed it to the collections. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/group-action-against-secretary-of-state#post-56 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:49:49 +0000 csa-hell 56@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>The only way I can view another thread is if I am logged in and it has been CLOSED! This was a thread for people genuinely wanting to fight the CSA and a link to the site in question. I have also left a comment reffering to this site with dedicated members who are genuinely fighting the cause, yet IT WAS NOT PUBLISHED. Your only interest is your own site, your own fight and your own cause. Good luck because I will have nothing more to do with your site and will make sure I steer people well away from it too! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/group-action-against-secretary-of-state#post-54 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:30:57 +0000 mysteryman 54@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I don't know if this is too old now mwt666 but I think the CSA1 system should have been abolished when CSA2 was brought in, like designed. Especially considering the fact most CSA1 cases are actually on the CSA2 computer system !!!!! CS1 has been left purely to keep the figures up.</p> <p>The CSA want over 500 a month from me. Let me know if theres anything I can do. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/ex-husbands-step-children#post-53 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:50:40 +0000 Au pair 53@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>My Ex Husband remarried woman with 4 children from 3 previous marriges , All children recieve csa payments from their bio Dads So can someone help me to understand why my two childrens csa payment has been reduced by over £100 a month to help my Ex Husband care for his new step family when their Dads already pay for them ?? or if there is someone reading this with the same question ?? </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/an-abusive-governement-agency#post-52 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:39:41 +0000 csa-hell 52@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Selena I totally agree with you and its a total disgrace how they can get away with it. The way I have been spoken to by them I honestly don't think I could control myself if I was face to face with them. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/do-expenses-count#post-51 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:16:11 +0000 csa-hell 51@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Because this Agency is run with the backing of the Government there is not a damn thing you can do about it! In this country anyway! I would suggest looking towards the Strasburg Court on Human Rights! They are basically denying you your human right of making a better life for yourself and family.</p> <p>They did a similar thing to me, my wages dropped from over £450 to just over £200 and they refused to do anything about it. I told them that I would lose my car and not be able to get to work, hence no maintainance would be paid. To this one of there idiots told me that that was not the problem of the Child Support Agency.</p> <p>Ive been up at court once, its been ajourned twice and I am now up in September. I will go to prison and when I get out I will be taking my case to Strasberg.</p> <p>I will fight this piece of dirt Agency to the death!!!!!!!!!!! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/an-abusive-governement-agency#post-50 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:10:22 +0000 25selena 50@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Hey, it's not just the dad's which are abused at the expense of CSA employees. I usually come off the phone in tears, fed up with being spoken to like it's my fault I'm a single parent and deserve not to get my maintenance. I have been told not to rely on my maintenance! I do work full time myself. My daughter is 11 and I have supported her for 9 1/2 years without any money from her father (yes, it took me that long to get any maintenance!!). I feel insulted constantly and most employees I speak to have no consideration for my situation and I am a pest to be asking for my late payment!</p> <p>And who can we complain to? How can we campaign to get the service improved? I would be in serious trouble if I spoke to anyone in my job the way i have been spoken to... </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/do-expenses-count#post-49 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:06:51 +0000 sar2them 49@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>My partner ha had major problems with the CSA - to cut a long story short they started by saying he owed £17,000 (where they got that figure from we dont know) and that they would be taking £70 odd pound a week. When he said that we wouldnt afford this the slapped on a deductions of earnings order.</p> <p>They then reassessed the claim, had all our pay slips etc and said we should be paying £51 a week which included £25 a week off the arrears. We had a nother letter come through confirming this but it stated he would be paying it direct to them. He phoned to query this as we are currently under DEO to be told that that figure they had come up with was wrong and he should be paying £87 a week but "we probably wont get that because it will take you under your protected earnings" and they notified us we would be recieving a letter within the next few months fromtheir arrears section.</p> <p>Anyway his employers have only been able to give them £52 a week (anything more would take him under protected earning limit) but heres the problem. He works with vulnerable adults in the community and uses his car for work. He puts in around £40 petrol a week but gets back a proprtion of this as expenses at the end of the month tax free (it works out to be around £100 he gets back) this weeks wages have gone into his account and low and behold only his protected earnings have gone in. He phoned up his payroll dept to find out where his expenses are to be told that the CSA class these as earnings adn because they have not been recieving the full amount they requested his employers have had to use this to pay the CSA the rest of the amount which is owed. </p> <p>Is this legal? i mean this means that he is losing out by having to use his car for work - he makes a loss onthe petrol as it is but at least we recouped some of this back but now we are £140 worse off as we are not getting any of his expenses back. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/complaint-letter-to-judy-cass#post-48 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:55:25 +0000 csa-hell 48@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Check these YouTube videos out mate, both concern the afore mentioned person:</p> <p><a href="http://csa-hell.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&#38;t=31" rel="nofollow">http://csa-hell.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&#38;t=31</a> </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/this-is-what-the-csa-do-to-people#post-47 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:59:07 +0000 admin 47@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I wouldn't worry about it, this site couldn't be more anti-csa if it tried!</p> <p>The child support agency do trawl websites looking for stuff written on them, they don't have anything better to do I guess. But then, if they actually did their JOB rather than wasted time arguing, there wouldn't be so many people complaining about them in the first place. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/urgent-please-read#post-46 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:57:14 +0000 admin 46@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I completely agree with you, everyone needs to share their experiences here so that we can all learn from each other on what has happened and what to expect in future.</p> <p>Don't stay silent, speak up and tell the world. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/this-is-what-the-csa-do-to-people#post-45 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:41:06 +0000 csa-hell 45@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I came to my senses today and cleaned up the site as I had pasted it with anti CSA graphitti!</p> <p>I will keep working on it but it won't go ahead until the CSA come to their senses of which I don't hold much hope.</p> <p>Just thought I better clear that up in case someone had a look at the site and wondered what the hell I was on about! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/urgent-please-read#post-44 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:45:04 +0000 csa-hell 44@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>It is of the utmost importance that you DO NOT just come and pass through these forums without leaving your mark. We cannot fight the CSA alone, we need to fight together and we need to do it in one place!</p> <p>If you or your family have been affected by the CSA you have to let people know about it. The more damning stories about how this unjust, uncaring, unfair and immoral oprganisation acts, the more chance of getting something done about it.</p> <p>DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!!! Leave your story here and let people know about it!<br /> BOOKMARK THIS SITE! Keep coming back and give updates or advice when you can!<br /> THINK! How do we beat them?</p> <p>Everyone that has a brain knows what the CSA are and they certainly are NOT a supporter of children!</p> <p>WE NEED TO FIGHT AND WE NEED TO START FIGHTING HARD NOW! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/been-asked-for-arrears-at-a-stupid-amount-i-cant-afford#post-43 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:42:59 +0000 csa-hell 43@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I was in a similar position a few years ago. My wages dropped from between £450 - £550 a week to just over £200. I just about begged them to half the payments from £60 a week to £30. They refused so I told them I would lose my car and wouldn't be able to get to work. To this they responded with 'Your car is not the problem of the CSA'. I said that if I didn't have a car I wouldn't be able to get to work and thus couldn't pay maintainance. The response was 'Thats not our problem' of which to me sums up the CSA as a bunch of incompetent idiots. I then said that I would have to finish work and go on benefits. To this they said that if I did that they would contact the DWP and inform them that because of CSA involvement I put myself on benefits and I would receive no money! In the end the stress and depression got to much and I had to sign off sick. That was nearly 2 years ago and I am still being hounded by them! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/complaint-letter-to-judy-cass#post-42 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:05:07 +0000 csa-hell 42@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I sent a complaint in both letter and e-mail form over 3 months ago after being told on the phone by a CSA officer that I had 'got my self into this mess'. This after I asked how I was going to pay £3000 arrears in 28 days on £72.55 a week. (Arrears I am disputing and will never pay)I even gave them the exact time and length of the call.</p> <p>As of yet I have heard nothing and don't expect to either! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/complaint-letter-to-judy-cass#post-41 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:05:25 +0000 admin 41@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I sent a complaint letter in to Judi Cass (or Judy Cass as it also says on the letter from her) a few weeks ago and was told they'd reply in 15 working days, which is next week.</p> <p>Just wanted to know if anyone else has dealt with her before? </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/this-is-what-the-csa-do-to-people#post-40 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:00:35 +0000 csa-hell 40@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Received a letter today from my Local MP and a reply from the CSA. This is the last straw as they just don't give a damn! I was setting up my own business with help from different organisations and it was going well before the CSA walked into my life again.</p> <p>Today decided to scrap all plans because I just can't take the stress and the new look of the site is a result. How long are they going to continue to destroy lives before the Government put a stop to it?</p> <p>You can view my site here: <a href="http://www.wildfashions.co.uk/catalogue" rel="nofollow">www.wildfashions.co.uk/catalogue</a> </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/need-advice#post-39 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:04:39 +0000 csa-hell 39@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>When I first started writing to mine I got a reply to nearly everyone. He also wrote to the Cheif Exec of the CSA and I received a reply, but nothing that helped.</p> <p>This time 3 years on I have started again and out of 4 letters I have received ONE reply. But that will not deter me and I will be writing at every oportunity. If everyone did the same then they might react!! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/need-advice#post-38 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:44:50 +0000 admin 38@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I wrote to my local MP and he never even bothered to acknowledge the letter, let alone reply or do anything. If you expect MPs to act, you're wasting your time. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/need-advice#post-37 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:20:51 +0000 csa-hell 37@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Contact your Local MP and keep writing to him/her and don't stop. It's a waste of time trying to come to arangements with the CSA they don't want to know. Go to your local CAB and ask them for help! Don't give in EVER, fight them to the bitter end!!!!! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/an-abusive-governement-agency#post-36 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:15:55 +0000 csa-hell 36@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>90% of CSA workers I have talked to are the same. They do not give a damn about you or the circumstances involved. All they want is that ounce of blood that will take them nearer to targets the Government has set. When they should be targeting permenent absent fathers they are going after easy targets.</p> <p>They don't give a damn!!</p> <p>PS: When I was last up at court which was ajourned, I was talking to a father who was going into court after me. He was on benefits and they wanted £13,000 in arrears. A CSA officer at the court asked him if it was possible for him to get a loan to cover it! Are they that thick and totally stupid? Answer: YES </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/one-way-system#post-35 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:06:35 +0000 csa-hell 35@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>When given 28 days to pay £3000 on £72.55 benefits I asked a case worker how I was supposed to do it. The reply to this was 'You got yourself into this mess'. I couldn't believe it. I complained by phone and e-mail giving them the time and duration of the call. I never heard another thing and just like everything else the Child Support Agency don't give a damn!!</p> <p>PS: The arrears were down to the CSA not collecting info properly!!!! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/group-action-against-secretary-of-state#post-34 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:56:12 +0000 csa-hell 34@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I am facing prison at the moment because I refuse to pay arrears I can't afford and I know not liable for. The CSA and their incompetance of not collecting information properly has put me back on benefits and in £3000 arrears. </p> <p>They have worked out my maintainance on NO shared care when I have always had my daughter 2 nights a week since myself and her mother split up. This was apart from a bitter brief period when my ex partner stopped me seeing my daughter and I had to fight for her through the courts. She told the CSA that shared care had stopped but NO-ONE decided to inform me. So for all these years I have assumed that they were assessing me on shared care.</p> <p>They refuse to go back and look at the case and would rather put a father in prison who has never refused to see his daughter. I have told them that if they looked at the case again and put matters right I would be prepared to set up self employment and everyone would benefit. They still refuse so as far as I am concerned I am going to prison. My case has been ajourned again so I have a few more weeks freedom left!</p> <p>I would ask everyone that is being screwed by the CSA to join this fight against them and a Government who should be ashamed of themselves for letting this happen! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/need-advice#post-33 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:56:15 +0000 Totally lost 33@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I've just been told by the CSA that because they have taken 5 years to assess my claim that I now owe them £17,000 pounds. During this time they never contacted either me or my ex-partner. This only came to light last week when they had £550 from my wages I never had any prior notice of this. I am now in the situation that I may have to give up work </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/mistake-by-csa-has-put-me-in-debt-by-16000#post-32 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:42:16 +0000 dannlol 32@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Hi i have happily paid every time the csa has told me i had to pay but about 3 years ago they gave me a nil assessment which again i was very happy with. Now three years later they have tole me that there was a mistake three years ago and i should have been paying all along this was after i had asked them to check my assessmenmt at least 9 times, and was assured the nil assessment was correct. I am now being told i have to pay £75 a week and i owe £16.000 can i do anything about the mistake they have made (i am aware that i can appeal and intend doing so ) but what are my chances of success</p> <p>Thanks<br /> Laurence </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/an-abusive-governement-agency#post-31 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:39:10 +0000 rumarr 31@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>i have read some of the posts on here and to be honest,it makes my blood boil,i have just started to get grief from the c s a,who do they think they are,they dont listen to you,they talk down to you like you are a criminal,and they have the cheek to tell me "think of it as another tax".While i have no problem paying i dont like being stitched up paying well over what i can afford on their terms.Moneyhell,every one makes mistakes,and it seems you to are being treated unfair.there needs to be a more fairer system in place.you are right it is an abusive agency </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/group-action-against-secretary-of-state#post-30 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:09:06 +0000 Shellforrest 30@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>I am seriously looking for some way of help. We simply cannot afford to live because of CSA, my husband is seriously thinking about leaving his job with the Armed Forces just so we can eat. We pay £750 per month, half hubbies wages. We only have a house coz he is in the Army. I have tried everything &#38; are now having to seek debt advise as we cannot afford to pay the bills. CSA told me they didnn't care about my child, tol take him out of child care etc so that we caould pay the stupid amount each month. I mean what child need £500+ a month for nothing&gt; She earns more than my husband so its not like she is skint &#38; she now wants us to send her kid to boarding school!! Argh this country - yes we need something now - CSA is a very unfair system, If you pay you get screwed &#38; if you manage to get away from them I know there are ways to stay out of their system but what a nightmare. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/been-asked-for-arrears-at-a-stupid-amount-i-cant-afford#post-29 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:04:11 +0000 Shellforrest 29@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>My husband currently pays 50% of his wages to the CSA, we are now having to get debt advise because the amount is going up another £150 this month ( I have not dared tell him yet) We pay £750 per month for 1 child, who is a child model, whose mother earns more than my husband and thats half my husbands wages per month. Our son is dressed in 2nd hand clothes &#38; dosen't get birthday or christmas presents from us because we cannot afford it, and I have approx £50 - £100 ( if i can wangle it) a month for food &#38; nappies &#38; guess what CSA told me, they didn;t care about my child he had to pay for the one on their books! Top it all my husband is out fighting for this country in Afghanastan - whats the point! Untill they get rid off the old system totally honest people are going to get screwed even more! </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/csa-causing-us-trouble#post-28 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:46:01 +0000 louise 28@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>No, they say he owes it to them, but they already closed the case years ago, but now they say they have no record of closing the case </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/csa-causing-us-trouble#post-27 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:09:07 +0000 admin 27@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>Let me get this right, they want the father of your child to Pay £900 to them, so they can give it to you, when you live together?</p> <p>This has to rank up there with the best of their errors, and I've heard a few in my time.</p> <p>Just tell them he paid whatever they say he owes to you direct, and to keep their fascist noses out of your family. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/csa-causing-us-trouble#post-26 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:04:20 +0000 louise 26@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>got a letter from csa yesterday saying my husband owes nearly £900 for our son, now a bit of background we had our son when we where 16 i lived with my parents for 2 years and claimed income support, my husband was supposed to pay about £5 per week, he did for a while but then wrote to the csa saying he would pay me direct, never heard nothing back, and eventually we moved in together. One day a couple of years later, we got a letter to our new address saying he owed money to them, we phoned them and told them we where now a family unit etc and they said they had no change of circumstances and put us through to the fraud unit, my husband was luckily able to think quickly and said to them if you have no change of circumstances then how do you have our new address? also he asked them the telep[hone number they had for us and it was our new number, so with this proving they did infact have our new details they said they would close the case, we recieved letters to this effect aswell which now have been lost having moved a couple of times since.<br /> So back to the present, we got this letter yesterday threatening that if he doesnt pay up immediatly they have the power to freeze our banks, suspend his driving license and even send him to jail. How can this happen after them closing the case? I am very scared of possible outcomes of this, also how did they get our address? the letter yesterdayw as sent to my mums house where we used to live untill we did a mutual exchange but we where never listed on the electoral role at that address. Please could someone advise us, also my husband has just been made redundant, im already depressed and on medication which incidently was put up yesterday coz im just not coping, and now this. My husband spoke to the csa before and the woman said they have no record of any letters closing the case, YEAH RIGHT. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/been-asked-for-arrears-at-a-stupid-amount-i-cant-afford#post-25 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:10:58 +0000 admin 25@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>They will try to deduct it direct from your pay using a deduction from earnings order (DEO) so it might be best to quit your job. Many people have had to do that as they cannot afford to work. I'm in the same boat, paying 40% of my wages, which I can't afford.</p> <p>I've sent in countless letters and just had the same ignorant responses. I will have to quit in the next few weeks if I don't get a resolution to my last letter.</p> <p>Good luck with your case. </p> http://www.csahell.com/forums/topic/been-asked-for-arrears-at-a-stupid-amount-i-cant-afford#post-24 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:10:25 +0000 tina1970 24@http://www.csahell.com/forums/ <p>the csa recently contacted me asking for child maintainace which i agree i might have to pay them. even though i have our daughter an my ex husband has our son! i work an his been long term unemployed. but the are insisting i pay 40% off my wages to them stuff what i can afford is the the attidude i got from them! when i phoned an asked to pay off the arrears at the amount i could afford.even offered to set the direct debit up there an then they would not agree!. so should i just quit work? as it seems thats the only way i can get out off paying the arrears off at such a high level! </p>