Just how much can the CSA take from me?

November 6, 2014

WOW!! This is one to make you stand to attention. I have being contacted by the CSA who state I owe them £64, 000 for a twenty two man I know nothing about. It would appear to have been the result of a one night stand in 1992.

To say my world has been destroyed is an understatement !! My current salary is approx £18 K, how much can they take from my salary per month?

Any help or advice would be really appreciated, as my existing family life has just collapsed!!

Comments

  • Richard Gent says:

    Jesus Pat! That is ridiculous.

    If this is honestly the first you have heard of this and the ‘child’ is now 22, I cannot see how the CSA is justified in pursuing such a retrospective claim.
    Have you spoken to the Mother in question? Why has this just come about now?

    The CSA was not set up for situations like this.

  • Bill says:

    There’s no such thing as a retrospective claim.
    Claims can only start from the date a PWC makes an application and there must be a qualifying child.
    If you have never been contacted previously then you cannot possibly owe this amount.
    If you have been contacted previously and chosen to ignore their communications then that’s a different story.

  • Sad Pat says:

    Bill on November 6th, 2014 5:31 pm

    Hi Bill, I have never had any contact with the CSA, until this letter stating I owed them approximately £64K arrived. Demanding an immediate payment of £30,000.

    I can only assume the child is the result of a one stand way back in 1991. To add insult to injury since 2000 I am now unable to have children due to testicular cancer.

    I cannot contact the mother as the CSA will not provide me with any details re the young man nor his mother. Currently I cannot afford the DNA test. I will take a DNA test, and if I am the father I will accept my responsibilities.

    Yet I cannot figure out how they have come to this figure of £64,000, I can only assume I have been charged approximately £3,000 x 22 years ? Hence my original question, what is the maximum the CSA can charge me from a salary of £18,000 ?

  • Richard Gent says:

    Bill,
    Thanks for pointing out the rule re retrospective claims. I did not know that.

    I know you post a lot of good advice on here so it looks like Pat should be in the clear unless he has had previous communication that he has ignored.

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