The CSA allows our money to be taken and used where it is not needed
August 14, 2013
My fiancee has a 5yr old son from a prior relationship and we have a 2yr old son together. Csa make my partner pay a large emount of his wages every month. If it wasnt for the £50 a week child tax credit we would be able to afford food or gas.
To too it off the a year we had his son every other weekend for 2 nights. Sometimes 3 nights. We rang csa about this and they say they would reduce our payments yet as the boys mother denied this they said they had to believe her dispite us havjng proof of him staying with us.
To add insult to injury my partner and i are struggling to give our son a ‘normal’ childhood, we can barely afford a bus ride to the park, and on hearing this my lartner ex laughed about how the money she recieves from us goes straight into her holiday fund.
Csa are a joke. They allow our hard earned money to be taken to where it is not needed abd let us struggle. We went without gas for i days last winter! yet csa dont care. Funny how you hold my partners money for 30 days before handing it to his sons mother your in it for your cut of the cash not to help families!
the money taken off nrp and given to pwc should be given as vouchers for tesco or asda or a clothes shop then the pwc wouldnt be able to spend it on holidays etc, as they would only be able to get something the child needs x
The law needs to be changed and this is one reason why. Fathers do need to pay for their children but the way in which payments are worked out needs to change. Like payments are worked out after LIFE bills and taken into account first like food rent etc. Then they also needs to look at the full household income of the mother and take that into account so the money doze go to mums who really do need it not mums who want the use it to pay their new car off why you cant pay your rent.. They need to stop taking into account working tax credits and child tax credits on the fathers side as an income also. Like this if you agree and for this to change everyone being used as a money cow needs to come together to have there vice heard. Maybe everyone wright a letter to your MP telling what’s happened to you and tell em you want how its worked out to change all on the same day lol? Its not going change by just griping about it on here.
@ Kayleigh – play them at their own game, tell the CSA that you have split up and would like to raise a claim against the father (he would need to have alternative address) and that would ensure his ex gets less as the child maintenance would have to be split equally!!
Sasha – mothers like that would only sell the vouchers for cash at a discounted price and fund their holiday…. they have no morals or standards…
My experience with the CSA has been good. My understanding is that if you are only having the child weekends (normally every other weekend, this is not enough contact to have payments reduced. As you have a child together, that child is counted for first before the CSA accounts for the absent child’s maintenance. Would it be the case that you just don’t wish for the other child to have maintenance from the father, ( your partner). Your child has already be accounted for first, so you shouldn’t be struggling financially. My ex-husband pays maintenance and why shouldnt he.Why should my child suffer, because he thinks its unfair to pay maintenance, he doesnt do much else for the child.