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Missing payment & can't get through to CSA on either number - how do I contact them?!
I receive maintenance each month via a DEO that my non-compliant ex is on and for the last few months it's been late, so I've had to call and chase it. I've had no issues getting through on the phone previously. I got through each month to find the payment had been received but not pushed through at the CSA's end, meaning…
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WARNING - CSA have made up arrears!!
Hi, I am putting this on here not to complain or to scare monger but to warn you to check your paperwork thoroughly. My husband is a nrp who has always paid child support through the CSA. The case has just transferred to CMS. He underwent a reassessment last year due to a change of job and was advised that over £1000…
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Previous CSA Calculations Incorrect
So my husband and I decided to look into the rates that calculate the CSA payments out of curiosity and it seems his looks like it was in the wrong rate for a period of time a few years back. When he first started paying CSA he was paying arrears between August 2009-February 2012. Once the arrears were paid from February…
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HELP!! CSA Back Payments 10+Years
I will try and keep this to the point without getting too irate! I have received a letter from the CSA asking for back payment for a 6 month period in 2006 totalling £800+ I have a 14 year old son from a previous relationship, being so young the 'relationship' never got off the ground and ever since I have paid my…
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Child support when you marry - can the ex demand double support?
Asking on behalf of a non mse friend She is getting married in a couple of weeks to a man who has 3 children with his ex wife. He does pay child support and it is a private arrangement not done through csa, always pays on time etc... Now the ex wife has called him and asked how much he is going to be increasing his…
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New to child maintenance; question regarding irregular work
After trying for over three years to come to a private arrangement I made the call to cms today to make an application for direct pay to get maintenance for my son. My ex is a labourer and works via an agency and I think that he has a few occaisional weeks where he doesn't get any work. How will the CMS work out what he…
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Stopping child suppott
Hi Would really appreciate any advice. DSD dropped out of college last year and is now supposed to be working full time for a family business (although I don't think she is actually showing up often). Anyway she is now 18 and paying her mother rent from her "salary" so we would like to stop paying maintenance. We've always…
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When will my case move?
Hi there. Is there somewhere I can find out when my case will move please? The NRP is on a DEO with four figure arrears. Two children. Thanks so much.
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Can i claim csa although still live together?
Hey! Before i start i must apologise for the randomness of this next question but there is a method in my madness and hopefully someone will be able to set me straight! ok,so my partner has a child from a previous relationship whom he sees regularly and pays £400 a month CSA,this was started from the month his son was born…
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CMS question - vindictive PWC
In terms of full disclosure, I am the wife of the NRP but I have no issue at all with him paying maintenance (other than the fact she has refused to let him see his kids for six years despite him having a judgement in his favour for access). I was had not met him when they were married so I was not the OW. So the old CSA…
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suing the csa
I read this elsewhere on the forum: The CSA have immunity from criminal liability because its a government agency. Also you cannot sue the CSA because you cannot sue the State. Is this true?
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Left a perm job for a temp one that has now ended can I claim js
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Child support and agency work?
Hi Guys Wonder if you could help us. We are trying to organise child support for my partner daughter his ex has filed for csa he works via a agency atm and will be going self employed as of next month. With the agency he only finds out on the Friday if he is working the next week or not. We can just survive on my money as…
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Child Maintenance for Dad
Hi I'm after some advice i've been separated from my wife for nearly 4 years we have a 6 year old daughter. I usually have my daughter every other weekend or sometimes three weekends a month. Due to my ex's work sometimes she has to go away which means i look after my daughter. Shes currently away at the moment until the…
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Widows pension query
Hi just wondered if anyone can advise. I currently receive a widowed mothers pension my husband died in 1999. My daughter turns 18 in July and I know when I initially applied for it they advised that the child component would be removed and I would then receive a widows pension. However with the changes to widows pensions…
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CTC and DLA when child turns 16
Hello everyone, my daughter turns 16 in April and I receive CTC for her and her siblings I also get careers allowance and she gets DLA. Now I was warned she will have to claim PIP when she's 16 but I haven't heard anything from DLA regarding this... I'd it a completely new benefit... Will she have to be reassessed and all…
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Cms calculation challenge
Hi I am hoping someone can offer some advice. My husband submitted paperwork to the CMS to allow the maintenance claim to be calculated. It included his 2015 tax return and a 2016 projected return. He was made redundant in 2015 and the tax return included paye earnings as well as self employed earnings following his…
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child support when first child goes to university.
Has any one got any advice on maintenance payments/child support when a first child goes to university? I have three children, two from first relationship. I have paid child support without a legal agreement using CSA calculator as a guide. I always have paid over the advised level so have never needed to go down legal…
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Returning from maternity vs benefits
Hi all, I'm desperate for some advice and information. I'm currently on maternity leave and due back at work in April, week 39. Now work have told me the company isn't doing great and given me a warning that I may be transferred to a different site on my return, but have to wait and see. Already, that location is further…
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Advice Please?
Hi there, I'm hoping you very knowledgeable people can give me some advice. I'm divorced and my own children are all grown up, so no financial issues there at all. At the moment I'm living alone, but I'd quite like to move in with my guy in the future, and we plan to get married at some point in the future. He has children…
