My complaint to the Child Support Agency
Hey guys and girls,
I’m writing this through pure hate. This countrys already had it anyway and now your going to have to suffer hearing my views as a 18 year old kid who lives with a father who’s suffering because of YOU.
Your a bunch of no good spineless pigs and you don’t deserve to be paid the money you get for doing this job. You don’t look into sides of an argument properly, you don’t look into things, you slack on giving information to the people paying and to be quite frank when all this finishes with my family I an guarantee you will not hear the last from me.
I find it appaling how you have let my own mother file a case WHILST she was abroad in the Maldives and still cast the ‘vote’ in her favor. How you havem’t told my dad what’s going on when for nearly half a year you haven’t even sorted a payment to the other thing i call my sister.
If they really needed the money there taking from me and my father and stopping us from living our lives then surely they would be contacting you day in day out to find out what was going on . Not to mention the scumbag of a sister has a job as well.
I suggest you really re think your system and hang your heads in shame because from an 18 year old who’s in university and doing her best. I’m seeing my dad struggle. I hope your happy.
Yours Un-sincerely,
Chantele Pearce.
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Do the CSA ever read these comments I wonder, but then really its the Government who make the rules. Having written to the Prime Minister twice and got a reply to both of my letters but the lack of interest in what i had to say was phenomenal. My ex partner lives in his rented 1.3million pound house costing him in excess of £4,000 a month in rent, he drives his rather large engine range rover sport/vogue…his new wife who he married 2 Christmas’s ago doesn’t work as she has had his 6th child the other 5 he doesn’t live with, 4 different mothers, drives around in her brand new Audi Q7. He had 15 of my years whilst the others have not even done 5 each. I never married him because I thought giving him the 2 boys I did was the biggest commitment.
Not in the eyes of the law, in fact there is no law for cohabitee’s and no court in this country that will fight for me.
The csa said in November that my ex does not work as he doesn’t pay any tax confirmed the tax man.
It has taken me until now 6 months, to convince the CSA that yes he does work, he has 3 companies and he is advertising for employees and their salaries start at £22,500 pa. I have with the help of friends, found his house taken photos with the cars on the drive and given them evidence that he does live there.
They then tell me that the tax man has confirmed his employer and that he lives somewhere totally different, a very small house not the very large house he actually does live in.
I cried all day with frustration, then I remember a complaint my ex registered with the police because my son text him and told him what he thought of him. My ex gave the police station the address of the very big house he lives in as his address not the very small one he gave to the tax man.
My ex does not live on benefits as he told the CSA he was going to.
My ex doesn’t need to live on benefits.
But my ex can live in a massive house and drive massive cars and because they are not an asset he doesn’t have to pay any maintenance say the CSA because they do not take bills into account.
The CSA are now filing a case for me because I have told him about the police reference and because my MP who did respond to my letters as I had copied her in on the letters to the Prime Minister. It was only doing this that I got a case worker to look at my case.
I am off work with stress, now the government will have to help keep me, instead of helping me out 6 months ago.
I will not stop at this, I want to help loan mothers who are in a similar situation as me, alone I wont count for much but together as a united front something might be done with this stupid government!!!
Julie Archer
Huni, this isn’t the csa your venting at, this is a web page for people to get advice. Were you ever living with your mum at one point and csa collecting arrears? Might be worth you and your dad lodging a complaint to csa and do the same to your local mp. You shouldnt be left struggling, but you need to get to the bottom of what is going on with the csa. Tell your dad to get a copy of his data file which costs a tenner. Good luck ok.
You are very misguided and obviously have not got the correct information about the CSA and this website. You need to get some help with your anger and as a young person, go out and enjoy yourself, and concentrate on your own life and uni life and maybe learn from the mistakes of others.
Karen, would you be saying this to the young lady if she lived with her mum? What I see is an 18 year old worried about her dad, why should csa hound him when it should be the other way round? And Julie, some guys know how to play the system, whilst honest dads get screwed because they are deemed easy targets, as long as quotas are met and revenue generated, do you honestly think the government care?
I am sorry you and your dad are going through this. It is disgusting the way the CSA treat people and it doesn’t seem to matter whether you are a PWC or NRP.
I am in the same position with my partner. We have 2 kids and very little money to even buy the kids clothes. Best thing to do is write a letter to Noel Shanahan, who is now in charge of the CSA and also write to the Prime Minister, although your letter will get re-directed to CSA anyway.
Julie your situation does seem the exact opposite. Your ex is a businessman, director etc. and has no assets as everything will be in the name of his limited company/s. As such when he submits tax returns it will state he has little or no income as everything will be expenses through the business.
It is unfortunate the way the CSA work and if you are employed through the PAYE system and have to pay maintenance then god help you because that is the only way the CSA will hound you. Self employment is too diffucult for the CSA to do anything about! It is grossly unfair in this day and age that the Government allow 2nd families to live in poverty. CSA told me the other day that I have to keep my partner and he is keeping his ex wife who lives in a large house with her partner who were having an affair behind my partner’s back!!! Really what a joke, I should not be responsible for his maintenance.
This ain’t exactly in corresponding to the previous comments but is about my complete disgrace at the so called CSA.
I have a 2 year old son, who means the world to me. He stays with me 3-4 nyts per week and whenever I give him back to his mother he is clinging to me screaming saying ‘no daddy no’. I split up with his mother when he was about 6 months old as she wasn’t interested in the relationship, glued to her phone 24/7 and only interests was going out to spend money on herself.
I know the kid doesn’t like being with her, as whenever I mention mummy to him he starts screaming no to me, and I also see the way he acts with her. He doesn’t listen to a word she says, misbehaves and constantly plays up to get attention. I think he clearly sees the lack of attention he gets from her because she is too busy living her own wee life and he comes second.
Anyway back to the CSA, I got a phone call back in Jan 2011 being told she had made a claim against me, at the time I had lost my job (electrician) due to recession, and was on job seekers allowance. At that time she was living with her new partner, (undeclared still on all the benefits getting house paid for, income support, child support etc etc) and also was working undeclared herself. I was living on £55/week, struggling to provide food for myself and son but didn’t ask from a penny from her, not what she would have gave me it anyway. But as I was on Jobseekers they said to me to not worry about it as I wasn’t entitled to pay it and that was that. Then the other day I get a phone call. We heard you’ve been off jobseekers since March 11, you owe ex amount of money. I spend hundreds of pounds on my son in clothes, toys, taking him days out every day I spend with him, swimming, play areas, parks, plays etc. While at the same time she is working, doing nothing with the kid, spending next to nothing on him as she doesn’t even feed him right but yet am the 1 who owes her this money? Is it just me or has the world gone mad? Anyone with half a brain could clearly see the kid was better with me and see I spend more in him than she does? Yet this doesn’t matter as the mother has automatic rights to full custody? The system is a total joke, like someone else said I would go to prison before I gave her a penny to spend on herself, if my son needs anything I would be happy to provide it like I do but this whole system is just a total joke.
Robert your story is so like others on here. As she is entitled to child benefit then that is it. If you have shared care the CSA should be taking this into account in your maintenance assessment. Keep a note of when you have your son, take photographs etc. to prove it as you may need it in the future.
If you give your ex money make sure it is done by cheque, bank transfer etc. At least some way it can be proved you have paid. If you buy clothes, toys etc. direct for your son they won’t include that as payment towards maintenance as it is your choice to buy these things. Seems a bit crazy because if you gave her money to buy these things they would take it as maintenance.
The whole system is a complete joke, but unfortunately for us all here, welcome to the hell of the CSA!
Hi Carol, I totally agree it’s a complete joke. How such a massive organisation can not take other circumstances into account I will never understand. Once they want money off you you have no choice but to pay that money end of.
I have started a business up so now no longer working for an employer and any wages will be business money so as far as the CSA will be told I ain’t making money. I refuse to pay her, as for my son he’ll get whatever he needs.