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CSA owe us overpayments – when will we get them?

My husbands CSA payments have now stopped as his son is no longer in education. Although he informed the CSA immediately it took 7 weeks for the payments to stop being deducted from his wages via a court order. So the CSA now owe us the overpayments back.

They have taken our bank details and we have made several phone calls since but still have no money. We have today been told it is in ‘archive’ whatever this means. Any advise please?

8 thoughts on “CSA owe us overpayments – when will we get them?

  1. Never contact the CSA by ‘phone. Get it all in writing (snail mail is best). It may take longer but any correspondence you do get you can use as evidence whereas a ‘phone call is useless for that. That said, I wish you luck my friend. The CSA are immune from everything you can imagine – mistakes, mal-administration, ignorance, incompetence. You name it. Even in law they hold the trumps.

  2. In situations like this whereas there have been overpayments, I would write to the CSA, explain your account has been overpaid by x amount, you have tried unsuccessfully to recuperate your overpayments, give the dates and time of all the calls you have made where possible, (get all your outgoing calls listed by your phone supplier, they should be on record).
    When closing your letter just inform the person you are writing to that you would like a reply within the next three weeks, failure to reply means you will take legal action.

    There are two ways you can take action to recover monies owed to you, firstly you must have concrete evidence that these people owe you x amount, only then can you take the action you prefer.

    1, You can apply for a claim by going through the small claims court, your expenses including loss of days pay to attend court will be also be included in your claim.
    2, You can go direct to the Bailiffs, I am not to sure what their charges will be or if you can include all your out off pocket expenses, but they will explain very simple to you on how their system works.

    Before you start your process in claiming back your overpayments, the CSA is an agency, you may not be able to claim against the agency, so, you need to do a little homework and research, you need to know the name of the person who is the head of the CSA branch that is dealing with your case, you also need to find the name of the person who is in charge of the overhaul CSA.
    When sending your first letter to the person in charge of your CSA branch, also send a copy to the head of CSA, and keep a copy of all correspondence you send.
    Please do not write those letters by hand, have them typed out. but you must keep a record.
    Good Luck
    Mr Nelson

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