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Lonewolf

Lonewolf

Lonewolf

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I'm surprised there are not more threads regarding the CSA. I have a daughter whom left education more than 18 months ago and has now been working since before Xmas.

I have been paying my whack for the last 6+ years without missing a payment, don't get me wrong, I believe in sharing the burden and supporting my daughter wherever I can.

Like I said, my daughter left education and is now working in full-time work, but can I get my payments stopped...It seems my daughters Mother is still claiming child benefit which means I will have to contimue supporting the CSA for another 9 months or so. Believe it or not, the CSA cannot persue a possible fraudulent claim, that is down to me informing the benefit fraud office with my concerns. I am absolutely fuming that each time I phone and speak with a CSA sdvisor I am left feeling annoyed with their lack of help.

I am left with no other option, but to consult with a solicitor which may result in more expense to me. :mad: Ayone else in a similar situation with the CSA?
 
I'm seeing it from the other side - the missus has two kids from a previous marriage and getting the money off her ex is now in the hands of the CSA, who have done sod all to enforce it.
 
well if she lives at home with her mum then is there not still a household to run, are you in regular contact with the daughter, i'd keep paying if it was me, are you in any major financial harship?
 
Out of interest how does CSA work, do they charge a % of your salary or something? How much where you paying for your daughter (sorry about the wording) per month?
 
dangerstat said:
Out of interest how does CSA work, do they charge a % of your salary or something? How much where you paying for your daughter (sorry about the wording) per month?
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It's 15% for any first child and 20% thereafter I think. Not on a vast amount and my salary been cut again, $1500 in less than 2 years :eek:
 
Why not call the mother and say what you have said here, seems a reasonable enough request.

Otherwise tell her you want something for your money!
 
dangerstat said:
Out of interest how does CSA work, do they charge a % of your salary or something?
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It doesn't work especially if you are on the old system.

Take this as an example.

I was paying £200 a month, when I got a letter asking me to supply copies of 2 months pay slips, which I do straight away. 8 weeks later I get another letter stating my payment had been assessed as £200.00 a month. Great I thought no problem.

Fast forward 7 months and I get a ***** letter from the CSA stating I've been under paying to the tune of £190 per month for the last 7 months. So I'm now £1330 in arrears. When I call up they state that they never received my copy pay slips, and after 6 months of waiting asked my employer directly.

When I asked why they sent out the second letter 8-9 weeks after initially asking for my payslips they state it was nothing to do with the reassessment, and to quote them 'I should have rang up and questioned their official letter and not taken it at face value'.

So currently my payment is £390 per month normal payments and an additional £180 per month to clear my arrears. Utterly utterly retarded beyond words.
 
They are beyond pathetic. They are an organisation which should be scrapped in its entirety, its just a farce and I don't have children I don't support. They are so incompetent and hide behind the "because we can" facade that prevents them actually caring about the peoples lives they destroy.

Take for example one of our friends. She split and had an amicable agreement with the father where he would pay around 40 quid a month. Along comes the CSA and tramples in feet first demanding he pays more. He does pay more, but she sees less and then they cut her incapacity benefit (she has an erroding back and can't walk properly) because the CSA got involved and it was decided that she was being given too much money.

How messed up is that? Here is a genuine case for benefit claims, but she is treated like she doesn't matter. Sickening.

People who work for the CSA aren't allowed to tell people they work for the CSA because of all the threats against them and where they work. I wonder why.
 
It's amazing how ****ed up a system it is. A friend of mine sold his house with his ex and she got 70%. They came to an arrangement with his payments.

He bought himself a nice motor with his share of the divorce settlement. Straight away his mrs was onto the CSA saying If he could afford that car then he was commiting fraud as he's self employed.

He then was given a bill to pay £1700 a month, which he cannot afford.

He spoke to the CSA and they said they had investigated his accounts, his bank manager tells a different story, that they hadn't even requested his info.

He knows he will win and has hired a specialist to sort if out, but it's uneeded hassle.

Then on the flip side another good mate and a poster here (sure he will be along in a minute, when he see's this thread) cannot get a bean out of his mrs despite her having hundreds of thousands in the bank and him bringing up there kids.

The CSA are not interested unless they are butt ****ing a man.

My own mother left my dad with 3 kids to bring up, he didn't get a bean for 10 years. He even told them where she lived and worked. I know if the roles where reversed they would have hounded my father into the ground.

If me and the Mrs split, I think I will save the bother all round and just kill her. ;)
 
Another genius encounter I had with the CSA.

I asked when I would be put on the new system. I got told 5 years at least. My son will by 19 in 5 years, at which point my liablity would end, so I would not need to be put on the new system by then.

When I asked if there was any way of moving to the new system quicker. I was advised to have another child and get the mother to make a second claim. The new claim would be put on the new system straight away and pull across my first claim with it.

:rolleyes:
 
Excuse my ignorance when it comes to the CSA... but why don't you just sort it out between you, as adults - instead of getting some Agency which seems to make a balls of everything to do it?
 
steve-h said:
Excuse my ignorance when it comes to the CSA... but why don't you just sort it out between you, as adults - instead of getting some Agency which seems to make a balls of everything to do it?
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Well my reasoning is because I don't really get on with my ex enough to sort out finances for my son with her directly. She is also of the belief that I earn a lot more more than I claim, so makes a CSA claim to ensure I'm not hiding moneys away. :rolleyes:
 
johnny6 said:
Well my reasoning is because I don't really get on with my ex enough to sort out finances for my son with her directly. She is also of the belief that I earn a lot more more than I claim, so makes a CSA claim to ensure I'm not hiding moneys away. :rolleyes:
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Can you not just stop paying it?

Your daughter (assuming you're the op) is working... if the CSA were to catch up with you (judging from this thread they wont) you could just explain the situation?

edit: read your last post... again can you just not pay it, or refuse to until they look into it further?

390£/month is quite a bit...
 
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