Court hearing over a charge on my house from the CSA

March 10, 2012

I was staggered to receive from the court a notice that a charge is to be placed on my house by the CSA.

I am more staggered to believe that the case actually went ahead on the 29th February 2012. In a telephone conversation with the CSA two weeks ago they said they would not go ahead with the court case without the correct figures, which I was told they needed! Did the CSA “not bother” to inform the Judge that the figures they are quoting are based purely on conjecture and not proven and were waiting for some final accounts from my accountant?

Did the CSA “not bother” to mention to the Judge that there is no way that I could attend to defend myself as I am in the fourth week out of six of weekly chemotherapy and daily radiotherapy at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital suffering from lymph cancer?

I know the CSA are a law unto themselves and that magistrates are virtually powerless to oppose them, but surely this is very different, particularly as I suspect that they have been very sparing with the truth in this situation.

They have already destroyed me financially and now they want to take my sons inheritence as well! Not being able to afford a legal represntative, I will rely on the Citizens Advice people.
I am fairly certain that the law of the land would probably have liked me to have the “opportunity” to defend my position? Perhaps the judge may well have liked to have heard about my situation from the CSA representative before passing his judgement?

My oncologist and the Macmillan nursing team are preparing letters to fire into them, but as we all know, they are above the law, make it up as they go and use every underhand trick in the book to get their way.

Since they wrote to me in August saying that as my son is now 19 I am no longer required to make payments, they have added a further £2,000 to the “debt” from nowhere. When I rang them to ask why, the explanation was beyond the rational thinking capabilities of the average person.

I will keep you posted of how I get on.

Many thanks… John

Comments

  • Elaine says:

    My partner also had a charge on his property nd was made to sell even tho the rules of the CSA state they are NOT allowed to make you sell the house you live in. He then paid them in full all the apparent arrears only to have copeous amounts of money deducted from his salary when he queried this they said its more arrears.He doesn’t even get to see his daughter and now he has had to give up his job because he couldn’t fford to pay rent and all his other bills. When he told the CSA he was not able to maintain himself and explained his out goings they said they do not take any of his out goings into account. I do not know how the CSA has been allowed to continue… They MUST be exposed !!!!

  • John Phillips says:

    Elaine, they are a law unto themselves. What worries me most is exactly what you say… How, in this great democracy of ours, are they allowed to get away with what they are doing. That they can wantonly destroy the lives of totally innocent people, just to raise funds for the exchequer and NOT for the welfare of any child is both sinister and smacks of a third world dictatorship.

    Will the last person tp leave please switch out the lights!

  • Brett says:

    Elaine and John. Excellent and very true comments. When I get some strengh and energy in my body, after the hell the CSA put me through, I’l write my horrific experience with them.

  • Brett says:

    Elaine and John. Your comments sum up perfectly this vile organisation. They’ve put me through hell, making up arrears of over £11,000 and then threatening me with baliffs and a Liability Order, despite the fact I was paying a decent amount every month, never missed a payment and always fully complied with any corres I received from them.

  • John Phillips says:

    More magic numbers from the CSA yesterday…. I went to the CAB and he rang them on my behalf to ask about the additional “arrears” that they have placed on my account since sending me the letter in August last year stating that the case was now closed as my son had reached 19. The closing amount of alledged arrears on the final statement was £4968 yet the amount that they took me to court for was £5860! Since then I have received another statement for £7,668, but when questioned by the CAB they could not explain what it was. Although it is a system generated statement, they conveniently said that they could not find it on their system! Subsequently I am having to send all their paperwork back to them so they have a copy!!!

    You couldn’t make it up! Incompetent, lying, scheming, state financed thieves. They should all be thrown in prison… and do I think they are on some form of commission for every extra penny they screw out of us… yes!

    Look forward to reading your story, Brett.

    Regards, John

  • katie says:

    The CSA are a law onto themselves, I have had the unfortunate privalage of working for them, in admin,they make the rules up to justify their incompetance.
    They hammer the poor individuals who can not afford the huge payments, yet when you try to sort things out with them, you are passed from one department to the next, without either one knowing what the other is up to. But as it is a government agency you have no rights what so ever, it is just a legalised way of getting money back into their banks. The child doesnt even come into the equation.
    I am now on the recieving end of the crap that they enforce and we are in fear of losing our home and my daughter who is not even taken into concideration is in fear of losing her family home. Well done to the CSA for being the bigest shammbles of a government agency ever going.

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