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Why are the CSA so unresponsive?
I separated from my partner in 2007, and he refused to pay maintanence.
I contacted the CSA 6 months after the split, and made a claim, which I then spent the next year ringing to try and follow the progress. After a year, I was still no further forwards, and the CSA said they had no record of my claim.
After yet another year of constant ringing and emailing, I contacted my MP who wrote to them.
5 Years on, he is now paying £5 a week from his jobseekers allowance, and the CSA informed me after 6 months of these payments I could claim for compensation.
I have writted and emailed to try and make this claim, and again nothing, am now at a loss at what to do next.
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Generally the csa are only interested in hounding working Fathers for money because they know they can extort illegal amounts of money directly from their wages, keeping a huge slice for themselves. Benefits only pay £5 a week and they can’t keep any so are not interested in helping.
Jobseekers allowance is supposed to be the minimum amount someone can live on – to take £5.00 a week from this is likely to mean your childrens father has to go without food for one day a week. You seem very unconcerned about someones welfare who is the father of your children. Assume at least you ensure he has a relationship with your children – maybe if he is not working he could share childcare with you or you could work and pay him maintenance to look after your children. Failing that there’s always work……..
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@Poppy – absolutely unbelievably. I’m a sure the op priority is feeding the children and their welfare.
It’s amazing the assumptions that are made, that he doesn’t see the children that the mother doesn’t work. If he doesn’t see the children it’s the mothers fault.
What we do know is the that father should stop being a benefit scrounger and work to support his children.
@eve32 ‘What we do know is the that father should stop being a benefit scrounger and work to support his children.’
I think the phrase that you’re looking for is ‘job seeker’, ‘benefit scrounger’ is such a loaded phrase.
It’s amazing the assumptions that are made…
@MrWhiteyNo assumptions made, the facts were given. Original poster stated he refused to pay maintenance and five years of not paying a penny towards his children he pays £5 a week because on job seekers. Yet @Poppy has the cheek to suggest the OP finds work when for all she knows the OP is working to support her children. No assumptions made. Says it all really.