How can we avoid paying the CSA?
June 25, 2009
My husbands son is 17 and stopped attending college in Feb 09 (that we know about).
He stopped payments in Mar 09.
The child’s mother has told the CSA that he is still in full-time education- a lie.
How can we not pay for him and his mother to sit on their ba****des without causing a world war??
The CSA are harrassing my husband for his employment details and want us to prove that his son is not in education. They are also saying we have to pay if son is working less than 20 hours a week.
I am so angry that we both work and pay tax and NI, and were paying CSA when it was due but are expected to pay for her to benefit fraud and work illegally!!!
Also angry that son can be “let away” with having no motivation to do anything…
Also son only comes to see us when he feels like it and we pay for him and his girlfriend to come to see us and pay for all their activities and want us to buy them stuff.
Neither of us got this from our parents and have paid our own way since early teenage years!!
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Hi Amanda,
A child is defined as * under 16; OR * under 19 (under 20 in some cases) and in full-time education (12 + hours pw) doing a course that is not higher than A-level or an equivalent standard or on a Government-funded training programme; OR * 16 or 17 and has recently left school and registered for work or training with the Careers or Connexions Service or something similar
After leaving school or college, a child still counts as a being in f/t education until the end of a fixed period after they leave, which coincides with the beginning of the next school term (terminal date) OR until their 19th birthday, which ever is soonest.
If a young person does any paid work of 24 hrs or more a week before the terminal date, s/he is no longer counted as a child unless the work is temporary and expected to end before the terminal date.
If none of the above is applicable, there’s more info at http://www.afairercsaforall.co.uk