My salary reduced but my CSA payments increase – how?

December 9, 2012

My case started in 2003. My ex partner tried to disappear with her husband. As far as anyone was concerned, I didn’t exist and the ‘new’ father was taking full responsibility. According to the CSA I certainly exist and payments have been taken as deduction from earnings for the last 5 years. I seem to have owed the amount of £3600 for ever and doesn’t decrease when I ask for an account break down.

For the last 5 years I have been paying £380 per month (1 child) this includes arrears. As we know, the fact that I don’t see my child, have any idea where she lives or any clue about her welfare, doesn’t change the fact that I still owe the money. The most recent development in the case is my informing them of a 15% reduction in salary and the the result being an increase in the monthly payment to £560.

I had been able to adjust my mental state to cope with the loss of a large amount earnings per month, given the fact that I don’t even know if the kid is still alive 15 years later, but the situation I find myself in now is ven more desperate.

And the moral of the story is…Have no morals! I thought, 15 years ago, that I was doing the right thing by not going ahead with a termination at 5 months, my partner neglected to inform me of the pregnancy until 4 months in! I know it looks like a stitch up but at 19 I tried to be a man about it and grow up.

I’m not looking for any help, I know the agency are a law unto themselves, it’s like living behind the iron curtain in the 70’s. I just wanted to share my depressing story with you and hopefully this will stand as a warning to others: If you are not completely sure – TERMINATE.
I’ll leave you with this…

“There is only one decisive victory: the last.” – Karl von Clausewitz It will be mine.

Comments

  • Alice says:

    What was the date of the previous assessment? Has there been a re-assessment since the case was opened in 2003? If not what is your salary now in relation to what you were earning when the case was opened?
    If you have only had the initial assessment and you have had wages rises meanwhile and your current salary (after the recent decrease) is still higher than it was when the initial assessment was done then your liability will be higher as it is a straight 15% of your salary (less any reductions for any children living in your household etc)
    If you think that the assessment is incorrect you have 28 days from the date on the Maintenence Calculation letter to appeal.

  • Marc Plested says:

    Update on this case. Firstly, my apologies for the wording of my initial statement. I had just received the letter and was fuming. My words about termination were harsh but as I haven’t seen her for ten years and her name has been changed then can I even refer to her as ‘my daughter’ now? It certainly doesn’t feel right any more. Even after countless attempts to re establish contact through courts, her mother has achieved her aim, by using the lowest, dirtiest tactics imaginable to stall the process.

    The £3,600 has been covered by a personal loan, it has costed me £800 for the finance but I get some semblance of a life from now on! I am still wholly disgusted that the agency act in the manner that they do. I’m happy (ish) that I have covered the debt with the loan. I guess, with the recent re structure of the agency and their new approach to settling new cases, i can see they wanted the debt cleared as soon as possible, especially as the child on the case is rapidly approaching 16 years old and if she chooses to leave education this year then It could all be over.

    Who knows, maybe she will contact me one day when she is old enough to really understand. My worry is that she will come asking for money, it is only then will she understand that the holidays, BMW X5 and private number plates etc. were actually bought with money that was hers.

    It’s a real shame that even after all this time, the mother has not re considered the option for me to see the child. I don’t think she quite understands that what she has done is fundamentally wrong. Karma has played a part in this too, the mother is medically incapable of bearing any more children. She made such a massive mess of this situation that she has forfeited any further chances of submitting scum to the gene pool (thank goodness!)

  • Wife beater says:

    Marc plested is a drug smoking women beater. The holidays bmw x5 and other things are paid for by wages you pathetic sad excuse. By your statements above also a stalker!!!! She does not want to see you because you used to bully and shout at her smoke weed and drive around with her in the back. There is no karma you pathetic little shit. You have your first job in 35 years an think your hard done by you sad horrible little boy. There is no mess in my life no mess at all. You are the one with problems hiding around corners spying on people you COWARD.. YOUR Worry is that she will come to you for money… Are you for real She and I need for nothing.. The police have been informed of your strange stalking ways AGAIN.

  • Marc Plested says:

    It’s great when thick cunts try to write an email! nice grammar and punctuation Kerry, well done but could do a lot better! Domestic shit slinging is your forte, so i’ll indulge you for a while..

    The ‘drug smoking woman beater’ line is a classic, the opener to many Jeremy Kyle episodes, just your style too, trashy and cheap. You have used every low trick in the book and are a walking cliche! I have no criminal record but hey I know someone who has, for violence, your husband!

    I’ve given you the rope, now hang yourself, please!

    Shame you never grew up or learnt to command the English language in the correct manner, shame on you.

    Shame you have to make up stories about me even though you haven’t seen me for 12 years! clutching at straws to say the least.

    You have always had a special way of making yourself look like a twat and the reply above is proof. Like one of those mis spelled, semi profound, statements usually found on social networking sites, you are the queen of the idiots.

    I’ll step off, you continue to feed Meg false memories and fake stories, the mere fact that you drive round in an X5 with a private plate says everything about you, sad.

  • Marc Plested says:

    The police don’t like being drawn into these kind of disputes and especially dislike the people that instigate them so carry on because it is the only card you have left to play and you will be the one arrested for wasting police time.

  • Marc Plested says:

    OK Kerry I must agree with you on one thing, it’s not Karma, it’s just your insides, the’re rotten, your fallopian tubes and womb went up in smoke in the Good Hope hospital incinerator!

  • Marc Plested says:

    Yeah and one more thing…..

    Hey everybody, you know this slag that is mouthing off at me right now? you know what she does for a ‘living’, spray tanning, mmm classy. Bet you earn loads of money doing that and whatever your husband does now? I heard he got the boot from Horizon, I spoke to a couple of lads who told me he was a massive prick! and Len? don’t make me laugh. EVERYONE in the maintenence section at Kingstanding council thought he was a massive prick too, I checked.

    I’m sensing a theme here.

  • Marc Plested says:

    Please take an English language GCSE at the very least before any future replies!

    Thanks in advance x

  • Wifebeater says:

    YOUR ARE VERY BITTER AND VERY STRANGE!! STAY AWAY FROM OUR HOUSE AND FAMILY, AND GET A LIFE

  • Marc Plested says:

    Didn’t take the hint on learning how to construct a sentence or paragraph. I am strange, I let you have that kid when I should have pushed for the abortion. When you eventually grow up you will realise what you did to trap me in that situation.

    Even your dad thinks the same, he’s just terrified he’ll never see Meg again if he voices his opinion. I think any family that had a child taken away from them would be bitter. You act like I was just a step father, it’s fuckin’ weird!

    I’ll say publicly now that from this day I will never make a claim to be Meg’s father and you can carry on with your lives. Your husband continues to call my work place and that’s fine because they back me all the way. I do have separate issues with Cowley that go back to school, before any of us knew you. I will resolve these issues with him at a later date.

    Thanks for giving me the opportunity to get some points across, even if you do think and write like a 5 year old

  • Brian O'Blivion says:

    Definitely a stalker. Deadbeat loser.

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