Why does the CSA take my tax credits into account?
July 10, 2010
I am a non-residential parent who battled long and hard for contact of my daughter paying about £2,500 pounds to get this. During this time I have paid privatly and have always taken responsibility for my actions. There has been abuse from the residant parant towards my new family including two young children that prompted me to have to stop access. I recieved the CSA and was quick to complete the form and get it sorted.
Then I found out that my childrens tax credits will be taken into account when sorting the payments. I cannot understand why my childrens benefits should be taken into account when the resident parents are not (as of apr 2010). The difference between just using my wage and benefits is £44 pounds. This means they are taking £44 pounds away from my children can someone explain how this is not discrimination? They say the new scheme is to stop child poverty is this not creating poverty for the non-resident family who are struggling. Effectively this new system will see difficulty within the non-resident house hold leading to a breakdown leading to more claims!!!!!
They bang on about the 1 in 3 that don’t pay but choose to punish the 2 in 3 that do.
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Why?
Because the CSA is not designed to tackle child poverty and never was. Its primary purpose was to obtain CM from the father to reimburse the exchequer for state benefits paid to the mother.
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As broken father has stated the CSA is not there to reduce child poverty, we even have a manager admitting that to me when an internal email accidentally fell into my hands during a DP request. See here http://deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page786.htm