Can I claim CSA even though ex bought me a car?
Dear CSA
My name is Laura Jenkins I am 34 and I work full time, I am a single mother.
I split up from my childs father 18 months ago,I am the primary carer,but she stays with her father weds night and friday night by agreement. He used to pay me £50.00 a week via a standing order.
We tried to reconcile our relationship for our little girls sake and he bought me a new car as a gift, our relationship since has not worked out and now he has cancelled the standing order as he says i owe him for the car (which was supposed to be a gift), now i am not receiving any money for my daughter and will have to get a second job at weekends to support her.
Please could you kindly tell me if I am entitled to make a claim to the CSA as i think the car is totally unrelated to paying for his daughter?
Best Regards
Laura Jenkins
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The car doesnt feed nor clothe your daughter. Contact the CSA and start a claim if you can’t come to an amicable solution, it is always bestt reach an.amicable solution for both of you but more importantly the child.
The car is completely unrelated to your daughter and the child maintenance your ex should pay.
To be honest with you though, if there is any way you and your ex can come to some agreement without involving the CSA I would recommend you do so as they are an incompetent bunch of idiots who really do not care about you, your ex or your daughter…. they are just interested in the money THEY will make from your claim.
You will read some horror stories on this website about the CSA and unfortunately they are all true 🙁
You are entitled to child maintenance for your daughter regardless of the situation surrounding the car – that was his choice!!
Good Luck!
Sally
My daughters father has no interest in paying child support maintaince for his daughter purely because i am not interested in being in a relationship with him. The joke is that he part owns a decent business and has more that a million in property access. Contacted CSA with regards to this situation and as of yet, i am the one who has to produce evidence with regards to his properties, and i am the one who has to keep chasing them with regards to his “work” situation.
How is it possible that these men can get away with excepting responsiblitiy??
Did i mention that my daughter also has Autism
I would give him the car back so as there’s no on going hassle around it. It’s not part of any calculation but it would be better to remove it from his mind and get it all on an even path going forward as you’ll be doing this for some time.
If you both use the on line CSA calculator, there’s nothing wrong with the amounts they are pretty fair and that will give you the value he would need to pay if you were to involve the CSA. If he’s not happy to give you that amount or you think he’s messing around then go to the CSA but be aware the CSA obviously don’t have any money and unless he’s on a PAYE scheme it can be really difficult for the CSA to get anything. It will almost definitely poison the working relationship you may hope to have with him as they are incredibly rude. So as the other lady’s saying have it as a last resort but it’s not by any mean’s a pain free solution unless your ex is very cooperative in which case you could just organise something with him along these lines anyway.
Yes you can still use the CSA but don’t think it will guarantee you getting any maintenance as the whole system is shambolic.
Even if you do put in a claim it may make your ex take notice and he may come to a private agreement with you and you do have the option to withdrawn your claim from the AGency.
laura,
‘Gifts’ have NO bearing on whether you can claim child support from your child’s father.
The CSA do indeed fail in a number cases.
However, that does not mean your case would definitely suffer and regardless of whether those that have been failed (myself & my partner included) wish to believe it, there are some parents who are actually satisfied with the CSA. Apparently ‘by 31 March 2012, 80% of cases under the statutory schemes had a positive liability and had received maintenance’ .
It’s a shame if your unable to come to an arrangement with your ex, as it doesn’t seem you have much choice.
The link below will provide you with info re making a claim.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Parents/ChildMaintenance/Arrangingchildmaintenance/DG_199135
chall ~ afairercsaforall
This is one of the terrible things about the CSA.
If the PWC spends and gives money on things for his children, clothes, days out, food and in this case buying the mother a car to improve the quaility of their lives, the CSA does NOT take this into account.
This causes more acrimony between parents as the goodwill gestures are ignored.
Better to let the CSA calculate the monthly amount and then check and check again.
Then pay.
Not a penny more.
Not a penny less.
in response to Sally – the CSA do not make ANY money from the cases they process – before you come on a forum and slag off an organisation which collects millions of pounds a year and passes on EVERY penny to the parents who have care of the children you should get your facts right
@ Alice… what a load of crock you talk…..
the fact is that the CSA do NOT pass EVERY penny to the PWC…. if you actually read some of the stories on these forums you will find that one of the biggest complaints from the PWC is that they are NOT receiving a penny for their children!!!! NOT because the CSA are not recieving it from the NRP but becasue the CSA are not passing it on!!!!
You will also find the the main complaints from the NRPs is that the CSA make up fictitious arrears to get more money, that money does NOT go to the PWC… it goes straight into the DWP pockets!!!! (which the CSA is a department of!!!).
So can I ask that you go back to assessing peoples claims and messing with peoples lives as only someone who works for the CSA would make the statement you just have!!!
I have been on the recieving end of the CSA and the idiots who work for them and as far as I am concerned they do more harm than good to the families involved!!!
The CSA may collect millions of pounds each year but they make that many mistakes its difficult for anyone (who deals with them) to see the benefit!!!