The CSA have said I owe £3,000 – how has this gone so far?
I have just been informed by the csa that over the past two years, I have been overpaid to the value of £2,700. Due to my ex husbands unco-operative behaviour with failing to provide income details, the csa set him a default maintenance figure.
He has now 2 years later,supplied his books, accouns etc, hich the csa tell me the hmrc have verified and on revising what he should have paid, I now need to pay him nearly £3000 back.
How can this have gone so far, and what would be my next step. Will be going to my local CAB but im so worried, its keeping me awake. As the csa had to investigate him, send nforcement officers to him, take him to court for non payment, how can they now tell me, that he shouldnt have been paying me 2 years ago?? Help!
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Did you involve the CSA initially? If so, stop whingeing and just start paying him back, as you have become a victim of your own actions. Now you know what it is like to be a NRP, with all that entails as far as the CSA
Nice in it that you owe csa for a change. Not nice is it. Now you know how we feel..
I don’t believe your story because if this was did to him not supplying his income details the CSA wouldn’t backdate it for him, they’d recalculate his payments from when he supplied details. If they are backdating then it’s because they’ve had his info for ages and not done anything with it.
They can’t do a backdated assessment. They can only take infirm action into account from the date he or you supplied it
Wow there’s no need to be bloody rude!! She was only asking for advice!
no need to be so harsh guys, we all know the csa is a useless agency and its their fault she is in debt not hers, in the end the only people who suffer are the children. wether she applied to the csa for need or spite is another story and everyone has their own story. as for the debt you could approach the ex and say you cannot afford to pay this and his children are going to suffer and I can pretty much guarentee he would drop the debt, if however the boot was on the other foot and he approached you saying he couldnt afford to live would you give him the same chance, probably not, hence you get comments and hostility from the guys above. at the end of the we are all adults, and should sit down and work out a proper payment plan so it benefits everyone.
Not harsh, just a reality check
Wow, unsurprisingly a load of nasty, one sided comments from angry bitter men with previous dealings of the CSA….. Predictable! I only initially contacted them as my ex refused to pay for his children at all. And now he allegedly cannot afford the default payment, although has recently returned from holidays to Barbados and Africa! I did not ask for you to get personal, and you have no idea what he has put me through the last few years. I merely was questioning why the CSA would backdate it , from two years ago. When will you men realise that the maintenance is for the children, not the ex wife, and ultimately its the children that suffer the consequences. Peter Frost do you know my ex? I should introduce him to you,think you’d get on well. Both selfish, bitter, sad , controlling old men.