On the poverty line because of CSA
August 7, 2010
My partner had over £9000 of debts with the csa, for a child he didnt know about, and had requested for a DNA test on, which CSA said they never got! My partner started paying the amount they asked for plus arrears every month with no problem at a rate we could just about afford. But the cheek they took into account my wages (we are on the old csa) as they look to see if i can afford to pay the bills, yet i have my own daughter to pay for and i dont recieve anything from her father as he doesnt work.
My daughter has had to go without so we can pay the csa for my partner’s child, wheres the fairness in that? Any way tcsa brought a new rule in where all debts had to be payed back in 2 years and wanted the whole amount, or £150 a week, my partner earns £250 a week, i went to CAB who pushed it down to £83 a week of that only £18 goes to the child. (we also help out with buying the child uniform) We have debts to pay and have really struggled to live due to this, but have coped, just and have got 1 year left to pay the arrears.
Problem is now i am pregnant and am worrying about if we still have to pay the same amount or not once i am on maternity leave as my wages will be a hell of a lot less than what im on now, and i dont know how we will manage if they dont reduce the payments??? Can anyone tell me what csa will do in this case?
I HATE THE CSA, THEY HAVE MADE US STRUGGLE SO MUCH WHEN WE WORK HARD AND THE MOTHER OF THE CHILD DOESNT WORK!
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Unfortunately Sharron the CSA has nothing to do with children or their welfare. This entire system was introduced to rake back even more money from honest Joe public to put money back into the ailing benefits systems. A friend of mine has recently been stung. His wife ran off with a local businessman to Spain and took her two children with her about six years ago. Jeff is a hard working builder and has paid his taxes all his life, yes taxes that go towards paying Child Benefit extra extra. Two years ago he re married and had a little boy. About nine months ago his ex wife returned with her new husband and contacted the CSA for six years of maintenance??? His ex wife lives in a £450,000 house and drives a £29,000 jaguar. The boys go to public school. Yes I bet you can imagine how much Jeff is currently paying the CSA. Two months ago I asked him how he was and he told me that the CSA had taken so much money from him that he couldn’t afford to pay his mortgage so they had lost their house and eventually he’d had to pack in his job because he couldn’t afford the CSA repayments. At the moment Jeff, his new wife and their 18 month old baby are living in temporary accommodation in one of the worst housing estates you could possibly imagine awaiting the local council to re home them. If a man or woman have children they should pay for they’re upkeep no matter whether they are resident or not. However when the CSA are deliberately destroying honest, hard working lives, subjecting honest people to debt because they’re too bloody lazy to analyze the financial situation between two people. Then to my mind we are living in a world that isn’t that far removed from medieval England. What next? Will the CSA cut off a hand or foot if payments are not made. Taxes and taxes on taxes, how much more will they squeeze before people say ‘That’s enough!’
That is despicable – I am in a very similar situation, just a quick note about the two year repayment that is absolute shite they pulled the same on me however it has come to light that the two year ruling is only a managerial steer so tell them to F OFF
Hi Craig
That is a nice thought telling them to Foxtrot Oscar to repay back the debt within the alloted 2 year time frame limit.
When you have a DEO in place and they will not listen to you what chance do you stand. That is my case.
I cant wait for the day that the whole corrupt bunch of thieving arse holes get sacked. One day I pray that they might even face criminal prosecution from the top of the pile of illiterate assholes (Steven Gerhaty.. right down to the lowest office assistant)… that would really make my day. I really would dance a Highland fling that day.
Graeme
The CSA is a complete sham and always has been. My husband has been paying for his son for 13 years and is very happy to do so. However, his money grabbing ex has put in for a new assessment in July 2010 and he is now paying 100.31 a week for one child. The unfairness of it all is that before we had our own 2 children he was pay 90.00 and now we have 2 we are paying more. Where is the loigic in that. Right there is none becasue the CSA do not work with logic. My husband is on the old system which means that they just pluck figures from their heads and half of them dont know how to even add or subtract. We recently wrote to our local MP and he has been very helpful. No one will ever change this system no matter how flawed it is. It seems that the more honest a person is the worst off they are. I must say though we have had constant years of problems with the CSA but I have absolute sympathy for the person that Steve wrote about who is living in temporary accommodation that is despicable it really is!
EVERYONE GET YOUR MP involved!! NO matter what.
Regardless send them a copy of every letter you send to the CSA. You’ll be amazed how many NRPs together we can get better, improved, group response. Don’t let the MP do nothng! Stand up and get the MP over worked with local CSA cases guaranteed to piss them off and force the issues directly with higher CSA bods..please pass this message on.
CSA will only take notice if an MP gets pissed off
Thanks
Brian