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No Drama cases
For those who's cases have come to an end, did you get advanced notice from the CSA?
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DNA test (off shelf)
Which one is recommended? Are they accurate? want to test myself and baby secretly. My girlfriend would leave me if I took one so? Just would like to know, I don't think she cheated, just would like to know 100% Where is a trusted internet site where you can get a good one? I know boots do one, but think online ones are…
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Paying 16 year old directly?
Hi all, My OH pays maintenance every month without fail, at the set amount via a private agreement, the CSA have never been involved, however we have huge concerns that none of this is being used on the children. We buy them clothing and pay for school trips etc on top of maintenance and happily do so. Currently the money…
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CSA arrears
I have had a claim open with the CSA since February 2000. I am being switched to the new system next month. What I forgot to ask when I set up my new claim was what happens to the arrears that are owed to me from the old CSA claim?
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CMS want £206 from 9 years ago
Hi all, My case has just been moved over to the CMS from the CSA. They have contacted me saying I owe them £206 from May/June 2007. I am sure this is wrong. How do I prove they are wrong when they are asking about money from 9 years ago (even the inland revenue say you only have to keep financial documents for 7 years). I…
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CSA state I owe them money from over 10 years ago
Hello All As CSA have stopped handling my payments, I have just set up a family arrangement with my ex to continue my child support. I rang them to inform them this and they have told me I have on outstanding balance of over £600. They state it goes back to when I was on benefits while I cared for my Mum who had…
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What happens in the 'gap' between CSA case ending and CMS case starting?
I am the paying parent and the CSA case ends in a couple of weeks. CMS told me on the phone that they start to set up the new CMS direct pay after the CSA case is closed, and this can take up to six weeks. Does anyone have experience of what happens during this gap? Do I accrue arrears which I then clear when the new CMS…
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CSA: What happens if my circumstances change?
Hello I'm currently paying through the CSA but have received a letter to say I will be transferred to the new Child Maintenance Service later this year. I expect under the new system we will get the service to work out the payments, but I will then setup a standing order to the Mother. (So we won't have to pay the 20% and…
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CMS - flaw in the system causes £20 charge to both parents
I'm a NRP and have been paying CSA for years. The case ends soon as we are being moved over to CMS. I've written to the PWC to see what she preferred to do but no response (its been a fraught few months as she keeps throwing my teenage son out to my place, and then begging for him to come back). In the end I thought it…
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Child Support when child in residential school?
Hi, hoping someone can help. My son has complex needs and is now in a residential school 52 weeks a year. I am still receiving Child Benefit and Tax Credits for him (was surprised to learn from them that I'm still entitled). He is 17 and is in full time education. My ex argues that I am not the primary carer, therefore he…
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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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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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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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Innapropriate reference on child support bank payment
My daughter's father has no contact with her following a family court ruling. He stopped paying CSA claiming he wasn't working. When our case was closed by Csa I applied via the new agency and they decided he should be contributing. Anyhow, I had to give him my bank account details via then which I told them I want happy…
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CM payments, second child in nrp home
In brief, CM set up using CSA calculation in 2010, worked out at £265 per month (I have one child). 4 years ago, first child born to NRP, payments dropped by £40, to £225 per month, he said he used the calculator to work it out. Just had second child, but he has since been promoted at work. Should I expect another drop in…
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Using an umbrella company to avoid child support
My ex is an airline captain earning £10k per month. He sets up a company, he is the director, the only employee and pays himself £600 pm. He generates a pay slip from his 'company' to 'prove' he's on £609 pm and gives that gleefully to the CSA. They use this pay slip to calculate my maintenance which works out at £100 per…
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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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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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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…
