CSA is pushing us into arrears with their fake claims
My partner has been assessed again (his ex likes to have him reassessed every few months) by the CSA based on Apr 12 – Mar 13 accounts (he is self employed) as paying £170 per month plus they want over £200 per month for 4 months for some magical arrears they’ve just come up with.
They do this all the time, we went to court in 2011 as they sent letters saying he owed £7,000 then £10,000 etc. We won, he only owed £700. Now they have invented some further arrears from 2006!
The problem is most of that work was at the start of the tax year, since December 2012 until now he’s really struggled for work. If you look at his income since January 2013 he’s brought in £129 per week before tax. Based on just over £500 per month actual earnings before tax and rent, bills etc he obviously can’t afford to give them over £300 per month.
They say they have to take tax years though and have ignored my submissions of his actual earnings this year. Can they do this? We are now racking up actual arrears because he genuinely can’t afford to pay.
I refuse to pay it myself because his ex is a raging psychopath who has a caution for harassment against me and I won’t give her a penny of my money. I am currently covering his bills due to how little he is earning.
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Ben Wiskin, this sounds all too familiar. You’ve paid thousands in made up arrears.
Yep, CSA took the word of my ex over a mountain of paperwork and bank records, then “lost” all of my evidence, claiming never to have received it after signing for it from a recorded delivery and sending me the figures from the money I’d paid, proving that I had paid and in fact over paid. Then changed their minds, believed my ex and started hounding me for thousands, which they have been taking from my wages for 5 years, money I do not owe.
Not only have they taken all the non existent arrears, they have taken them twice so the csa now owe me £5200 but refuse to give it back.
yeah funny that ive had a bill from 6 YEARS ago all of a sudden saying I never paid enough ! ive just been to see the C.A.B about this as 6 years ago I was paying out so much to them I lost my flat and ended up homeless for the next 4 years but I was owed £960 last feb !!! I think they need to go back to school and learn maths ! its a joke !
Oh the C.S.A and made up arrears sometimes it laughable! I got a letter stateing I owed £3,000. So as you do I rang them to ask where these arrears had come from? The convo went a bit like this.
Me- can you explain why I owe £3k
CSA- because that is the figure
Me- yes but where has that figure come from
CSA-you should have been paying for your children
Me- I have from day one!
CSA- Your ex says you haven’t!
Me- I can prove I have
CSA- Shall I put it up to £5k
Me- you can’t do that!!
CSA- £7K????
Me- Are you on drugs? I owe nothing never mind £7k
CSA- Are you going to keep arguing with me Mr Staniland?
Me- well yes because….
CSA-10K????
Me- But I don’t owe anything
CSA- I’m enclined to believe your ex so shall we carry on or should I put it up to £12k??
I went to my MP about this but they had “lost” that recording. Still fighting the £3k