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Why do I have to wait for a year before the CSA does anything?
I am desperate, as I have tried to support two of my four children for nearly two years with no payments from my ex husband. He has signed a consent form to say he will pay £200 a month.
I have struggled to keep us with a roof over our head but am now forced to lodge with a friend and am now on long term sick leave. When I rang the CSA I was told very rudely that I would have to wait a year and a day before I could do anything about his non payment.
I had no idea that this would happen and am now struggling with a lot of debt. It is not my fault my ex has not paid and it upset me hugely to be told so rudely to wait this long. I am so depressed.
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That is disgusting but I had the same. I left my husband because of domestic abuse. I didn’t get any CSA payments for the first two years because of the time scale they give him to reply (which he didn’t) then the further timescales to go for a deductions of earnings (he built up over £3k in arrears!!) I started getting money for the first time last year, it lasted around 12 months then he went and left his job went self employed and now says he is not earning anything yet is driving around in a car and has recently paid hundreds of pounds on a solicitor to fight me in court regarding a residency order I was awarded and a non molestation order I was given against him! I have always given him open access to the children and now he dropped a bomb shell on me that he is going for full custody of all 3 of my young children!! I’m absolutely heartbroken. This whole system stinks!!
That’s disgusting what the csa have told you. Go to your local mp and write them a letter stating this is unacceptable. I fear they may be putting your ex into arrears which would see the csa taking Upto 40% of his net. In a lot if cases this is unreasonable and forces the nrp to either quit there employment or go part time. In either case you will not gain nor will your children.
The csa do not care about the children or your own well being. It’s all down to the stats. To prove that they work they must provide evidence that this system works to the goverment. However saying that to put a child on the bread line so to speaks breaks the human rights of that child and you as the carer.
Try to come to a suitable arrangement with your ex because at the end of the day you will both loose out
your ex is an arsehole and the csa wont chase because it aint worth their while,instead they hound fathers on the paye system to get their targets and bonuses.
Oh and welcome to the wonderful world of the csa..its usually the nrp they are rude to lol
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