Do I need to continue paying as son works part time?

September 27, 2012

Please can you advise me as my ex wife has decided to involve your selves again even though i have been making payments of £236 per month for at least the last three or four years and beyond for my son which i have bank statements to prove this.

I have a court order that states these payments will cease either when my son is 18 or finishes full time secondary education. He is now nearly 18.5 and attend colledge for 20 hours a week and he also works for 20 hours a week at a local supermarket.

He is currently studying Public Services level 3 which finishes in June 2013. Can you advise whether i still need to continue with my agreed payments??

Regards
Simon Collings

CSA says I am liable for when I wasn’t working

September 27, 2012

I have been obligated to pay the CSA for about 18 months now, They first contacted me when I started a job informing me that I owe arrears from information they fabricated as they where unable to contact me (Had an old address) but that was explained and normal payments were made. I left that job just before Christmas and didn’t start work until may that was meant to be for a few weeks so I didn’t inform them and paid my ex partner an amount. This job went on for 7 weeks unexpectedly but my ex partner decided to stop me sing my daughter (she has bipolar so wont bother explain why).

That employment ended and I was looking for work, About a month ago they sent me a letter stating that I owe money from the date I started that Read more

Everyone I speak to gives a different answer

September 26, 2012

I started paying csa in 1997/98 the csa said i had arrears of around £1800 from the date i left my ex up to the date they got involved as i had been giving my ex money each week in cash when i collected my son i had no proof that i had given it to her, after much debate between the csa my ex and myself she admitted to having recieved half that amount so the csa decided to split the arrears and i could pay each month in with my regular payment this i did until oct 2002 when my ex decided to take my son to live in tenerife.

I contacted the csa and was told i didn’t have to pay anymore as he wasn’t living in the country.

In the December 2002 my ex decided that she could no longer afford to keep my son and we paaid for him to come back and live with us which he did on Read more

Both my daughters left me after I started a new relationship

September 26, 2012

This is a bit complicated, but I will try to give the most concise story I can. I have two daughters, now aged 21 and 15 and until 6 months ago they lived with me, their mother. Their father was in and out of our lives until my youngest was about 2 and since that time I had 100 percent care of my children.

Their father visited and would take them out for the day, but only rarely had them overnight. He was in and out of work. I studied, worked when I could and was supplemented by Centrelink when I wasn’t working enough and CSA put in place an assessment for Read more

Ex went to CSA because I couldn’t pay what she asked

September 26, 2012

Hi there, well it start when I split up with my ex back in October 2006. We made a verbal agreement that she wouldn’t go to the csa. Throughout our disputes, I had given my ex around £ 16000 also paying other expenses such as school uniforms , holidays and equipment, and between August 2008 to February 2009 my son lived with me.

I had to go part time earning around £100 per week taking him to and from school in Worcester to where I lived in oldbury about 28 miles away and I didn’t get any help with working tax credits because as you see I didn’t have parents rights. The tax credit Read more

Paying all we can yet not enough for ex

September 25, 2012

My partner currently pays CSA for a child he never is allowed to see. His ex moved him to brighton because she got a job there, but wont even give my partner her address to send a birthday card or anything. His ex told him he had 6 months to get a job or the CSA would be involved. (at the time he was on JSA due to having an operation because he had Perthes disease in his hip, so needed a hip replacement) She got the CSA involved and they took £5 a week from his benefits. When he got a job, he told the CSA and his ex, and they said its ok, we will adjust your payments.

It took them 6 months to work out the calculations, by which time they claimed he owed almost £2000 in arrears. So they said you have to pay that off over 10 months, as well as the usual payment. At one point, he was paying out almost £400 a month. Because he had started work, we were Read more

Ex decided I wasn’t paying enough so went to CSA

September 25, 2012

I am a father of two girls and now live my new partner and her two children and have mine over fortnightly. I have always paid maintenance for my girls. Im self employed and was paying direct to my ex`s bank acount for the last three years until recently.

She decided that i was not paying enough and she would go to the CSA and get more. I was paying £200 per month and struggling at that as business is virtually non existant.All my accounts went off to the CSA. The next i heard that i should pay £56 per month.Fine i`ll pay her that and at least it will be more affordable at the moment. Of course this was not her plan and appealed.

They came back 6 months later saying i will have to pay £196.00 per month and now have £1400 arrears. This is because they now take tax credits in to account.Of which their repayment plan is also unaffortable. At this time they said i should cease payments direct and pay them. Apparently at her request. I stopped paying until they sort out the correct arreas as they have based their figures on the year before last accounts and now this years earnings are less.

Surprise! no change on the ammount i should be paying. Too much time has passed so i decided to start paying my ex direct £25 /wk and £5/wk for the arrears whether she wants it or not. She has accepted this and the CSA said should i continue to do this she will just put it down to the girls for pocket money and will not count. Is this True?

Also they are threatening court action if i dont comply. Surely the court will see that i am paying at what i currently can afford and not issue a warrant or baliffs?

This a complete waste of country resources. I thought the CSA was to enforce non paying parents or is it because im an easy target.

Im now about to give up trying to sort it out because anything i say to them falls on deaf ears.

What would be the best thing to do?

CSA staff are incompetent and insensitive

September 24, 2012

I received a letter from the CSA telling me my case was closed and that I owed no arrears and it ws all done and dusted. My kids are 23 and 20. 9 months after they again contact me and tell me that my ex bitch had appealed the case and that I now owed 9 months cash at the old rate.

I started to pay again but 2 months ago i lowered my payment by £50 because i was skint, the next month they deducted the whole payment from my salary, and this month they have again deducted the whole amount from my salary even though it was payed in full from last month.

I had to borrow money to pay my mortgage last month and I will have to do the same agin this month.

Incompetent insenstitve bastards is all i can comment on.

CSA charging for wrong children

September 24, 2012

I just dont understand why i’m paying £48.76 a week for my child who i regulaly see and have 2 nights a week wile my ex’s other sons father is one month paying for his child and another he is being charged for my child aswell.

This has happened on one or more occasion and i am getting pretty sick of all the mistakes they have made. That’s not all, I recieved a letter last year asking me why i have left my employement when i did not. They must be the most idiotic organisation there is.

I have to pay until daughter is nearly 20

September 24, 2012

My youngest daugher will be 19 on 24th Sept. She has enrolled on a college course again now. Child benefit will continue until she is nearly 20 (bar a few weeks). Child support needs to be paid as long as child benefit is, so I will need to pay my Child support until she is nearly 20.

When you ring the CSA they tell you you have to pay until she’s 19, but this isn’t true. Sometimes you have to pay until they’re nearly 20, depending on when their birthday is.

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