Comments on: Need help fighting the CSA?

By: Bodie

Bodie — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:28:56 +0000

After reading some of your emails and finding so many people like me or worse off im not sure if i wish to writer what has happened to me.
The CSA has asked me to pay £97.00 a week even though i was not working about 6 years ago and was in america with a friend. I even wrote them a letter telling them that my then boss could not keep my job open for 7 or 8 week while i went to america looking for work. The CSA told me that they never recieved a letter from me, and as i had not signed on i still had to pay.

A few weeks ago i went to my MP About paying £78.50 a week which is stupid as i guy said his out goings are more than his income… They do not care!!! I have asked to be re ccessed but told no, I have said that i wish to appeal again i was told no. I have said that i would pack in my job, i was told, that is up to you. now i have been told that i may have to keep on paying untill he is 19. I really have no insentive to keep working but my friends keep telling me to hold out s a little longer.
My son did not go to colege most of last year he just hung out with his friends.
I recieved a letter from my MP which said that i wrote to the CSA and said that i was taking a holiday from work …..! lie…..
I think it is just a way to get money back for the people who do not want to pay for their kidds

I wish all of you the best of luck.

Down with the CSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Myles

Myles — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:01:53 +0000

CSA have told me through their own incompetence they have not actioned 6years worth of payment schedule changes – resulting in a £3k arrears. I originally asked for Deductions From Earnings, so that the CSA could not say I wasn’t paying the right amount. I’ve bounced it to my MP!

By: craig

craig — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:05:34 +0000

I have been paying for my three daughters even though one stays with me i have been trying to get the csa to see the fact that the erx should be paying me foor the daughter that stays with me. They finally agree when daughter is past claiming for and now say its too late but offered £100 compensation instead of the £4,500 that i lost and nthing for the house we got evicted from

By: skippy911

skippy911 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:30:06 +0000

FUCK THE CSA BLOW THE FUCKERS OUT THE WATER

By: cory

cory — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:16:44 +0000

Ues I am a father of two and I am leaving my job thanks to the fine csa I was off for 4 months due to the stress of gt all they always tell me different things even sent an email to mr cameron the cunt that he is never even had anyone reply. The csa need taken out big time and I am more than happy to stand up and be counted if they cannot find you they can do nothing. I take my sons every weekend and they just sit with me in the house watching tv they say they are in pplace to protect the kids but taking money from them is not protecting them just hindering them. I understand there are assholes who impregnate and fuck off so concentrate on them fuckers not the good men wwho love and adore their children. What about the women that fuck off and leave the kids with the father the csa do not chase them is that not discrimination.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:26:04 +0000

I have 2 children.. son is 15, and i have received nothing from his father in 12 years, arrears are over £20,000.. that is less than £100 month towards his upkeep. I dont know where his father is, his family will not tell me and the csa cannot find him.

I have a daughter who is 8.. her father stopped paying 14 months ago because his girlfriend begrudged it. He pays for her to fly to poland regularly to see her family with their baby, owns 5 properties, multiple cars and by his own admission pays himself a minimal salary out of his savings account which is supporting his new business.

He says supporting his daughter isnt an essential expense.

Neither of these dads care about their children clearly and that is apparent not least as they are both unreliable with contact.

I pay hundreds of pounds in childcare and keep a roof over the childrens heads.

I feel very sad reading some of the tales on here, but really there are many feckless fathers, out there, i personally know two of them..

The victims here are the children. Not the parents.

By: poodmypats

poodmypats — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:30:12 +0000

So lets get together and do something, lets all turn up at DWP offices in force and not move til we get ansers, invite the press, lets wake the country to these evil tossers, they love bullying individuals, easy prey for skint governments, but if we stand together…………………….

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:12:25 +0000

payment went from 55 per month

480 per month with £2000 arears

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:07:11 +0000

Ok here we go.
I left me ex partner when my daughter was 3 scince then (11 years ) on i have always had my daughter every weekend without fail. Always had her durring holidays and if i go on holiday i always take my daughter. I have always paid CSA on time through direct debit and never had any arrears.

Me and my ex always saw eye to eye until she met someone. Then i start getting letters, phone calls from the CSA asking for details of wages,bills etc. Which i gave.
My Ex has asked the CSA to take my partners wages into account on the grounds of housing cost. CSA agreed this and put me on a departure ( pre 2000 rules) so now my payments have sky rocketed 6x the origanal amount with £2000 arrears.

I have contacted the CSA and explained that with the new payments i cant fisicly afford to live as my outgoings are far more than my incomings with the new amount. Which could result in me loosing everything including time spent with my daughter.

I phoned the CSA and asked a couple of questions

Q1 How can they take my partners wage into account when we are not married and she has a child which the CSA wont take into account.
A1 You both live at the address and his father should be paying for him.

Q2 How can you go from 1 rule to the other
A2 Your ex has asked us to take you partner into account

Q3 With the new payments do you take my current bills I.e ( loans, credit agreements, credit cards) into account as they were already in place before your new disishion.
A3 no sir they are you responsability we can only take into account any bills that you and your ex had ( 11 years ago ) into account.

Q4 the new amounts are leaving me with nothing or less is it worth me working
A4 if you give up work sir we will make sure you cant claim benifits as you voulenterly gave up work.

No matter what i ask the answer will always be the CSA will do what they want.
The new rules where suppost to bring equal rights to the CSA but why bring in new rules if the CSA can just go straight back to the old ones when they want.

I agree that every father should look after and financualy support there child but the CSA is braking up more familys than they are helping. The CSA has no sence of reality in these hard time not just for fathers but for the mothers as well. It seems that the CSA are quite happy to sting all the fathers who are willing to pay but arnt so much bothered about the ones who arnt.

Current day

Ok im still fighting with the CSA
Ive had advise from everyone and contacted solisitors , MP , Debt company and the citizan advice bruero ( sorry about spelling)

Solisitors gave the best advise but cost a furtune
MP usless
CaB usless
Debt company i contacted because my outgoings are more NOW than before which means bill arnt getting paid.

There are fathers out there, that are willing to pay matenance ( myself ) but the CSA cant get away with what they are doing.
Where will i be with no house, car , job ………………. i will be without a daughter
no house means she cant stay
no car means no transport to pick her up
no job means no to everything. Plus ive had the same job for 10 years why should i give it up.

We have gone from everyone all happy
to everyone arguing all thanks to the CSA

By: KELLY IS SCUM

KELLY IS SCUM — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:10:32 +0000

FUCK YOU KELLY. You are obviously a dim witted individual who has no care for fathers that have put everything into seeing and caring for there children, only to have it everything taken away from them. SCUM like you should be shot on sight. You really are a nasty bit of work who doesnt deserve the right to children herself. I hope the worst possible happens to you, you piece of trash