Why does the CSA take my tax credits into account?
I am a non-residential parent who battled long and hard for contact of my daughter paying about £2,500 pounds to get this. During this time I have paid privatly and have always taken responsibility for my actions. There has been abuse from the residant parant towards my new family including two young children that prompted me to have to stop access. I recieved the CSA and was quick to complete the form and get it sorted.
Then I found out that my childrens tax credits will be taken into account when sorting the payments. I cannot understand why my childrens benefits should be taken into account when the resident parents are not (as of apr 2010). The difference between just using my wage and benefits is £44 pounds. This means they are taking £44 pounds away from my children can someone explain how this is not discrimination? They say the new scheme is to stop child poverty is this not creating poverty for the non-resident family who are struggling. Effectively this new system will see difficulty within the non-resident house hold leading to a breakdown leading to more claims!!!!!
They bang on about the 1 in 3 that don’t pay but choose to punish the 2 in 3 that do.
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Why?
Because the CSA is not designed to tackle child poverty and never was. Its primary purpose was to obtain CM from the father to reimburse the exchequer for state benefits paid to the mother.
well said
http://www.classactionhero.co.uk/assist.htm worth a look
As broken father has stated the CSA is not there to reduce child poverty, we even have a manager admitting that to me when an internal email accidentally fell into my hands during a DP request. See here http://deadbeatdadsassociation.co.uk/index_files/Page786.htm
i have much the same this end, the csa want to take my partners working tc and my wages if i was to get a job (currently looking) then they wonder why so many people are unemployed! its not worth me working. its not like im not paying for the kids i have (£78 per week from my partners wtc)
have been paying alleged arrears since 2002,case closed in 2006,then told it was 2007,still paying £45-00 a week arrears for another 18 months,
just got data protection thro,been paying £39-00 a week carer allowance,out of the £94-00 a week csa payments wat a f*****n shaftin…..
I have not seen my children for 3 years my ex committed adultery and I walked out leaving her with a 180,000 house a car and even took them to Florida on holiday for my childrens sake after we had split (which was the worse holiday of my lifetime). Yesterday I argued with the CSA for over 2 hours as christmas and new year I was on shift at my work as I do 4 on 4 off and due to this I was given double time for working christmas house, I had no choice as this was my shift pattern, then I got hit with arrears of 1010 as I had earned more than I told them I had earned, they then informed me that they had looked into my bank account and my Credit cards and I was capable of paying the arrears on the phone straight away, (that will be right) . I pay my maintenance straight from my wages without fail it comes off and never moaned or contacted them, fortunately I am lucky my new partner is happy to live with me if I only had a penny she sticks beside me, but I have now began a petition online looking for 5000 plus signatures to march to the house of commons and hand them the signatures to ask them to make life more fair for the non resident parent, even just to take into consideration Rent/Mortgage and Council Tax so that we can at least manage to start a new life, as the resident parents always seem to manage my ex is on her third rich man now and had the house changed extentions chucked him out, then a builder with his own business and he did the walls outside and patio then she kicked him out and now she is with a taxi driver self employed who has sold his house and moved in with her so why can we not have peace to start over.
If you would please sign my petition you will find it on http://www.mypetition or you can access my partner on facebook on Tracy Walker or please email me.
11 Years ago i had an affair with a married women, not the best i know, however she said she was having trouble leaving him, as he was abusive and violent towards her and her daughter! i got her out of the home, and started my relationship with her, i got told all sorts of things about how bad he was, after 3 weeks of hell trying to help hershe says im pregnant, well i dont know if im coming or going, dont know who the childs might be and 1 night i come home from work, she has moved out taken all of her things, and gone back to her husband who have then subsequently moved to an unknown part of the country!
Speed on to jan 19th she has slappedin a c.s.a claim against me who are trying to pick my two childrens pockets because she believes she has been harshly treated! and of course, because i essentially provided a semen sample i now have to pay for her actions! I will gladly pay for my past naievety through my wages but its very unjust that money awarded to my children shall probably be getting her drunk at the weekend! And whats worse is i have no legal recourse