Taking the CSA to Tribunal

I am currently waiting to go to a tribunal on the following pionts, first of all i started to pay for my children in 1994 my payments where £315 pcm i married again to my pressant wife who also had two boys to her previous.I was in the army for 24 year her boys did not receive any help from the csa and still to this day never had a penny, my partner and myself wrote numerous letter and filled in the assessment booklets. but the answer my partner got was that she did not exsist however they still used her family allowence part of my calculations,time went bye and still paying monthly.

it is now the 2000 and serving in northern ireland on whitch i was recieving danger money for being over there the good old csa in there wisdom decided to take the extra money into account and take it of me it was a 4 month tour however they forgot to stop taking the extra money when i returned to the mainland. Mid tour i had an interview in lytham with a case worker called andy ,my currant partner came as well the interview started and we spoke on differant topics the one comment that stuck in my mind was that tracy my partner would be better to leave me, how rood was that we were both gobsmacked.things was sorted out and came to a figure that was more comfatable to survive,payments where met untill june 2006 and i informed the csa that i would be leaving the army on the 19th june.

this was great a new start in civvi street my to girls have left school no more csa.WHAT A MISTAKE settled down in our new house 6 months later postman came shock horrer it was the dreaded csa stating a tracing action had been done on me.the letter stated that child maintenance had not been paid since june 06 i informed them that i was under the impression that my 2 girls had left school so why have i got to pay.the next letter was bailliff action or remorgage and could i pay the sum of £6,500.00 off.after this thing went down hill, we both went to CAB they had communication with the csa and asked for an account breakdown witch we recieved,we then had a face to face interview with a case worker called denise coyle from the csa she informed me the was a shortfall from 2000 of £79 pcm we informed her that in 94 to 95 we was paying £315 however this was’nt on the breakdown she come armed with another breakdown whitch was different from the one of CAB they they had sent.

denise coyle pionted us in the dirrection of ICE who then took us on board and started to look into our case.months and months or letters and phone calls to ICE and to the CSA to martin connor, i wrote the first letter to martin connor he replied but i had to reply within a certain time however the was a postal strike on so noing the way the CSA work i hand delivered the letter to great western hse walked arround the buildind as it was the nightime waving at the cctv noing they would deny getting this letter stating how do i no that you dont owe me the £6.500.00.

shore enough i phoned the CSA up as no reply was sent to me. youve guessed it we did not get the letter, i said i beg to differ look at your cctv coverage on the said time and date you will see me walking round your building with o yes mr edwards we have found it however never got a reply.We received a letter of ICE stating the no arrers in 1999 so the socalled arrears came after99 i told them i was out of work this took 2 and1/2 years for them to take off £1670 they admitted that it was partley the csa fault HOWEVER ive have still to pay the outstanding balance they sent another breakdown witch was different from the first 2 witch was also different 3 breakdowns 3 different amount mmmm how can you have 3 breakdowns for the same account reading different sums.

our next step was to request our data protection in 2007 this was interesting reading as well as breakdown of accounts number 4 well what a surprise another different figure we sived through mountains of paperwork from the data this brought out more conflicting info. O/C,no more payment to be made 2004,W/O acti!
on £4,434.34 so i spoke to ice of my finding yet again but to no avail.

my next step i wrote to my mp he the wrote to steve geraghty for him to do a full investigation on witch was done but not by him, its was the boffins at great western hse of course everything was correct by there standards. (dont think so!!)we have wrote to the onbudsman his reply was for ice to close the case down and he would look at it still waiting.so i am now at the pressent day, ive served in ireland for over 3 year in the hard area’s also served in iraq just after the war health great no problems. different story now high blood pressure loads of time of due to stress and other stress related illness boy it was well worth putting my life on the line to be shafted good style by CSA.

we then put in for a second data protection, this was even better reading they have slipped another child in for me to support how nice of them to think of me in this way had another face to face with a lovely case worker that came with yes you guessed another breakdown it took my trained eye within milli seconds to find another cockup but only for £979.00 Jo Heffy explained to me when i had my assement in2004 this was when my arrears come from how strange my last assement was in 2000 she swore black was blue i did i said to her show me on your b/d were this was ,as it wasnt on the b/d what a farse.after taking 3 personal calls the lovely case worker left and days later she had sent her finding of her interview according to her she told me that i had £13.35 arrears only how strange iam paying £151 pcm deo so we looked at the 2nd data closer and low and behold £13.35 per week for the other child they slipped in but not to worry i finnish paying for this child in 2025.

here is a brief summary of mistake in list form

• child not mine
• denied dna
• no assesment from 2000 -2006
• case closed nil liabilty
• W/O debt re implemeted
• unexplanable amount of money missing and also added
• misconceived on appeal when asking for the 1st appeal
• 2 appael out of time due to being in ireland
• 3rd appael late but granted
• delys and loss of paperwork
• compensation for 20 weeks delay for ice £100
• compensation for w/o £4,434,34 £50 and for the biggy for breaking this marrage up after 14 years and 3 children.

for adding a child thats not mine the graet amount they have exseld themselve with this one £25 for the inconvinience, O/C £647 £1061 £5.68 £736 £111 £132 UNENFORCABLE DEBT £2000 there are more cockups but to many this is SKIMMING THE TOP OF THE ICE.