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Do the CSA really have to provide proof that I’m the father?

Hi,

I read on deadbeatdads about a court case they had where the CSA admitted that an employer can refuse to pay the CSA unless they can provide proof you are the farther of a child. Until they provide this then a DEO cannot stand.

I asked deadbeatdads for this but was not lucky enough to be taken on as a case so was wondering if anyone had seen this case

9 thoughts on “Do the CSA really have to provide proof that I’m the father?

  1. I think there is something I remember reading where an employer can refuse to accept a deo order until csa can prove its the actual person they are after….its in the employment act but cant remember what section….can try googling it and see what you find or someone else might be able to offer more advice.

  2. The very name of this organisation raises questions. But that said they do fight the CSA so we are on the same side. I have studied law for years but I am ultimately a pragmatist. The CSA can fine your employer if this is not true. and The fine at last look was about £2K. So your employer is not likely to argue with the CSA on your behalf.

    If you want some ammunition. heres a trick. vary your income by an hours work. then declare the change. what this will mean is a new assesment. this will raise the opportunity for you to appeal their decision. when they inform you of the new amount they will have to inform the court you can then argue in court why you shouldnt be paying by DEO. the CSA will of course try to discourage you but there is nothing they can do to stop you having a say in court. I will say your not likely to win but you can test the DBD theory you mentioned.

  3. Things is it never went to court just like a lot of people they just applied it as this is there preferred option unlike an attachment to earnings. I also cannot vary my hours.

    The worst fact was we did have a witness verbal contract between us which I adhered to without question. Paid her money yet she got the CSA involved because she want more money. She lied about what I had previously paid said it was “because I owed her”

    I have tried with my MP, ICE and the CSA themselves. I also found the Payroll company is a member of the institute of Payroll so have a vested interest in me paying as they are also part of the CSA. looking at this now I am screwed either way and will be paying for the next 10 years while she sits on her fat arse getting all kind of grants, benefits, and a nice chunk of my income. In the past couple of months she has been give in excess of £3000 and they say crime does not pay?

    Would be nice if I could tell lies all the time and walk away with money like that.

  4. @CSA Warrior. Cheap tricks is the last thing we need to get to our aim of CSA reform. There is a small but specific category of NRPs who truly deserve the attribute ‘deadbeat’ and that is the category that spends all their energy on avoiding their responsibilities with cheap tricks and ‘job hopping’. They don’t realise that the case-load backlogs they cause at the CSA means that deserving PWC’s and NRP’s with wrong assessments don’t get the attention they deserve while CSA deals with bogus complaints like that. People with bugus variations deserve the label of terrorist, not warrior.

    Why not concentrate your energy on making the rules more fair for both NRPs and PWC’s like allowing for reasonable travel costs to be excluded from income including a pence per mile allowance to see the kids four times a month and daily travel to and from work? Why not ensure there is a decent minimum level for the NRP’s new family to live off, because shifting poverty from one family to another cannot be a useful function for the state to spend taxpayers money on. 40 Pence for every pound the CSA disperses to be exact. That is the real scandal! The real scandal is that the CSA seems to be a government employment project for useless gits who would never find employment in a real job and get paid to torture PWCs and NRPs alike.

  5. The thing is if an employer is misinformed and just acts it buts them at fault and leaves them open to legal action. This would then force the employee such as me to sue there own employer or to live with the consequences.

    The CSA needs to change drastically when I gave this some thought it amazed me really first off my taxes pay for the CSA to do what they have done to me, secondly they pay for here benefits and finally she now gets 15% of my salary!! How the hell is this fair!!! Plus right now if I were to prove I was not the farther would I get my money back?? NO

    The CSA should be more of mediators, to work out agreements between the parents then intervene but not they are like rabid dogs and just go after blood. It is the resentment between of them getting involved that do cause upset. As stated I was paying without fail, she gets to keep all that money and got arrears, I am so close to the line at the moment it effects my health and me doing my job.

    This has forced me to re-evaluate everything, should I work, should I go live abroad not in an EU country or should I just go self employed. I would much rather set up a fund for the child rather than give her the money. So far she spent what she has got on a HORSE TRAILER how does this benefit the child!!

  6. “my taxes pay for the CSA” ???? Not ‘your’ taxes Daimien, ‘our’ taxes, all of us including your little bit of course, but mainly including tax payers that never had children and tax-payers with families that never called on the CSA to perform a function of the state that most of us would never dream of using, because when it comes to the upkeep of our children we are responsible and make our own private arrangements. Now I know some PWCs are just not willing to enter in such a private arrangement so my comment is not aimed at those NRPs that have no choice in the matter and PWCs whose exes just go AWOL..

    Now if you said the CSA is a taxpayer funded government employment opportunity for incompetent loosers that would never found a real job in real life, I could agree with that!

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