I have been on the old system CS1 for years now, I have been waiting months for a independant tribunal for some time now as my ex girlfriend has made false statements against me with regards to shared care, home improvement loan, and the nomal cost of child care costs ie playscheme charges £90.00wk.
I received a letter from the appeal unit 31st october 2008 confirmimg that they would inform me of date for the above mentioned. As i was waiting I then receive a letter from the Plymouth office telling me that unless I pay the oustanding arrears, I would be taken to court. by the way i continued to pay the amount based on there last assessment, any way i sent them a copy of the letter from the appeal unit confirming that the case was in dispute. You woukld think that they would acknowledge this and await the appeal tribunal.NO!!! instead I was sent a liability order, now I actually live in Milton Keynes and the case was to be dealt with at Norwich yes! Norwich, so i as like many others contacted the CSA Plymouth and spoke to a women who seemed so helpful. I explained the case confirming that I had sent two letters to the CSA with copies of the appeal letter, she informed me that she would contact the court and gave no reason why they had made the court so far away. She assured she personally would cancel the court date immediatly, the court date was due for the 7th january 2009 (happy new year csa!!)so not trusting the CSA I contacted the court on the day of the trial and spoke to the court CSA officer who confirmed no such communication was received and that I should have been there. I explained the details to him and he got the case adjourned or stopped for now. As everyone is well aware that if you do not show for the liability order the order will be granted in your absence. THIS TO ME IS AN ABUSE OF EVRYONES BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL. I have wriiten to the women in question the same day still no reply from today 21/01/09
I believe that ignorance is no excuse to abusing this CSA hell hole system, secondly if this CS1 system can calculate the 30% payment or as mine is just under 29% then due to there own cock ups ie unstable system not parents fault then they can calculate the 15% rule on the old system how hard is that? thirdly everyone's assessment is done individually every year or two so they should be migrated at the next assesment yes!
I would say to any one to request an indepentdant tribunal as the ex would have to turn up and give the statement that they made,if they didnt turn up then this would be an abuse of process, also i think that the CSA can not discriminate against a person on the grounds of there status ie the NRP status as we all know that we get treated total differently!