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£1000 arrears at £5/week for 4 years?
Hi A friend is recipient of CSA, and the non-resident parent has built up arrears of over £1000. They currently pay at a rate of £200/month, suggesting an income of around £1300/month. The repayment they've negotiated with the CSA would push this to £220 per month, meaning they pay off the £1000 at a rate of £5 a week over…
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Would Social Services contact a pregnant person?
My cousin is pregnant and living with her bf in their own appartment. No one really likes him as he is a bit of a tit and has a bit of a chequered past - he never sees his child from his previous relationship for various reasons.. He's not even allowed supervised visits. He's been to anger managemen etc too. 3 weeks ago,…
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Help Please- CSA/Child benifit confusion
My daughter is now 18 and attending college on a one year advanced course. I assumed I would no longer have to pay but as the child benefit office do not class this as an advanced course so my CSA payments continue. Before this the CSA advised that advanced courses would mean and end to my case ???? Can anyone advise if…
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Child maintenance payments
Hi! My fianc!e has 3 daughters. She divorced in 2003 and the county court order specified that he had to pay £125 per month per child until they were either 17 of finished in tertiary education, whichever was the latter. Oddly there was no provision for inflation. He has paid this regularly for over ten years, including…
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Child maintenance payments
Hi! My fianc!e has 3 daughters. She divorced in 2003 and the county court order specified that he had to pay £125 per month per child until they were either 17 of finished in tertiary education, whichever was the latter. Oddly there was no provision for inflation. He has paid this regularly for over ten years, including…
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CSA Confusion
Wonder if anyone can shed any light on this please. Hubby has been paying maintenance for his child (now age 17) for last 15 years. I am not sure what CSA system he is on, he pays the mum direct. He was last contacted by the CSA about 8 years ago when she wanted a review of his situation. He was told what his payment…
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CSA recalculations of earnings
Hi can anyone advise how often the CSA can recalculate my earnings with regards my payments to my ex wife?
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Old CSA Case Problem... Help Please
Hi I had a case with the CSA many years ago. The last time I received anything was when my daughter was about 15, she's now 27. I gave up trying to get any maintenance for many reasons and gave up trying to give them info. Anyway, fast forward to June this year I have a phone call out of the blue about CSA collections and…
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apprenticeship
I was hoping to get some information on when a child leaves 6th form and starts an apprenticeship. At this present time we do not know if the course is an "approved" programme led apprenticeship or a course provided by an employer as part of a job contract. We could not ask the ex directly as there has been a severe…
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First Tier Tribunal anyone?
I have put in an appeal to the first tier tribunal. Basically the ex didn't do company accounts for 4 years and could not submit them to the CSA when I put in my claim in May 2012. I told them he was a company director and took dividends at that time. In November 2013 when he finally submitted them in just before we went…
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Advice please on formal complaint to CSA
In the middle of June 2014 CSA had a second liability order granted for the sum of £9000. I rang the CSA to be told the liability order will now be sent to the bailiffs. Early September I rang them for an update only to be told it hadn't been sent to the bailiffs, it was the mistake of the CSA. I received a telephone call…
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Anyone else miss a payment due to 'upgrading system'?
Or however you would like to put it?! I've only just managed to find out why I didn't receive anything in September.Apparently, with the change to the system where parents are now charged,there were a few cases where the system decided not to bother with September leaving 'a few' of us with no payment. Although,I'm…
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Child support ending
My husbands son is going to be 18 next month, he finishes education next year. He's been told as he is on CSA 2 that the rules of that scheme mean he stops paying maintenance the September of 2015m he finishes a levels next May but child energies js kay able to the end of Aug/sept of that year. However it says on the csa…
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CSA1 Assessment
Hi all, new to this forum so apologies if this question has been asked before. Does anyone know how to work out an assessment on CSA1 rules? Or if I can PM someone who would be able to work it out for me? Thank you in advance.
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how much for child maintenence?
Hey guys If I have a child with an ex. And now how 2 children with my new wife who lives with me. How much on average would I need to pay in child maintained for my child who lives with my ex. He probably stays with me once or twice a week. My earnings are around 450 pounds gross.
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CSA arrears
Can anyone help I have recently been contacted by the CSA who are after arrears even though the dates are when my child went on to further education. "Which she didn't" I was on DDE "but" the child did not go on to further education. I have told them but they say I need to inform the benefits agency. Shouldn't this be…
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Help with calculating maintenance
Hi I'm after some help with calculating child maintenance but it involving 3 kids and 2 mothers I come out with £1400 per month after tax I have a private arrangement with my eldest child's mother of £120 a month and I have access every other weekend I now need to work out what I need to pay for my 2 little ones to the…
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*sigh* csa again...
Hi all, hope you lovely people can answer a question please!! bit of background, my husband ceased work in april 2010 to care for our children and was classed as 'nil assessment' due to his having no income. May 2012 we separated, and he claimed income support for approx 3mths while we were apart. In august 2012 we got…
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Do you have to be a child's biological parent to be forced to pay child support?
Hi. Here's my circumstances. Me and my partner have recently split up. My ex has a 4 year old daughter from a previous relationship. Although I'm not her daughters biological father and I've never had formal parental responsibilities, can she still take me to the CSA to make me pay child support? I've offered to pay a…
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CSA or whatever they are called now...
Have the maintenance amounts changed recently..? My ex earns around £600 per week. I only get £30 by private arrangement at the moment. I am sick of being taken for a fool and am now going to make things more formal. I went on the government calculator things and it says the amount should be £53 a week..? She has our child…
