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!
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been asked for arrears at a stupid amount i cant afford!
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tina1970
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Posted 4 months ago # -
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.
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.
Good luck with your case.
Battling the child support agency on every frontPosted 4 months ago # -
Shellforrest
Member
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 & 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 & nappies & 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!
Posted 4 months ago # -
csa-hell
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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!
I have found this site NOT to have an active interest in the fight against the CSA.Posted 4 months ago #
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