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CSA payments and 2nd year apprenticeship
If a dependant 'child' is over 18 and starts a second year apprenticeship I believe their pay increases from £2.65 to the minimum wage of £4.98 an hour so that 'child' will be earning in their own right approx £200 a week. Would they then be considered to be working and therefore maintenance is no longer payable, or are…
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Question about csa 2 and the using of tax credit information.
Hi again members , i have been contacted by csa with a view to paying maintenance (although i have been paying voluntarily), i was under the csa1 scheme initially when my case was closed after 11 years, now the ex asked for csa involvement again which will place me under the csa2 scheme i believe . i understand how csa 2…
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Arrears but are they ?
Just reading some of the threads on here now I have an issue that giooes back to 2004. In October that year I get a letter saying they'd done an assessment at my ex's request and my payments were to increase by £68 a month and this was backdated some 30 months, giving £2000 of arrears. The next day I got a letter saying…
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Whats the differences between CSA 2 vs the newer 'gross income scheme'
Hi , briefly i wondered if members could advise on the difference between csa 2 (post 2003) scheme and the newer so called '' gross income scheme'' ? what are the differences regards calculating a sum for maintenance (ie rates/percentages etc) ? also if a case was opened against me now would i be on csa2 or the newer gross…
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Can my employer include expenses in a DEO?
My employer recently made a deduction from my wages that left me below the protected income rate. However, because I was reimbursed expenses at the same time my employer claims I still received more than the protected income. My expenses aren't taxable income, they are merely repayments of moneys I've spent out of income…
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problems with ex
Hi, just after a little advice. My parnter pays child maintenance via csa for two children with his ex partner. His ex partner drops the the children off with us each week and then we drop them back off at the end of their stay with us. This way its fair and each parent does a drop off. We are now having problems as my…
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Csa?
Does anyone know if this is right - my ex partner seems to think that because I have put in a single tax credit claim the CSA get notified automatically and get in contact with him to arrange payments through them? He has another child with a different person who he pays £200 monthly for (a personal arrangement, not…
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CSA Arrears
Last year, during a particularly bad time financially, I went through a period of burying my head in the sand, not opening mail or dealing with bills etc. I also wasn't paying the CSA, having started a new job at the start of the year, neither did I respond to their requests for information. I'm aware this was stupid...…
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CSA1 Complaint / Appeal Loophole Query
Hello everyone, Due to the CSAs failure to review an assessment lastyear, I put in a complaint. During the complaint process it came to myattention that the NRP had supplied misleading information for the assessmentlast year, and a prior assessment in 2010/11. I then supplied the CSA withdetailed information of where the…
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New Business, new CSA bill!
My partner came off of disability benefits, retrained and has managed to started a new business in October. He is self employed. He borrowed a fair amount of money to start it but its not doing so well - yet - however, we have high hopes though that it will provide a living in the future. We've just had a new bill from the…
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CSA payments taken for 2yrs when case should have been closed
Im hoping that someone out there can help/advice me please. I split up with my wife when my daughter was 5yr old, and back in 2004 i took the CSA to court disputing arrears that i owed after i had got documentation saying that my case was closed and then reopened again saying they had made a mistake. (You may not be…
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csa payments and off sick
Is it right that if my partner is off sick he pays £5 per week hes off and then once hes back to work his payments are increased to cover the period of time he was off work. For example If he pays £100 per week. Is off sick for 2 weeks so pay £5 for each of thoes weeks This leaves him with £190 owing. This £190 ia then…
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CSA using tax credits to assess . . . OMG is this right ?
hi members . with a connection to earlier threads could someone please advise/clarify for me . . . . i have received a form from csa seeking maintenance , i was on csa 1 but case was closed , now they are wanting to open a new case. i have had a brief look at the form and part of it is requesting tax credits info (wtc +…
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CSA: criminal offences
Hello everyone. Quick question: is it a CRIMINAL offence not to tell the CSA of your new address within seven days of moving to a new property. Secondly, is it also a CRIMINAL offence to mislead the Agency, or fail to tell them of your circumstances, either by lying or withholding information? The CSA say its an offence…
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Help with closing a CSA case and switching to a private arrangement.
My ex and I are sick of the mistakes that keep happening when it comes to him paying maintenance for our daughter. When we split up we went through the CSA as I started claiming income support and at that time his payments to me meant a reduction in my benefits and we were told it was the only way we were allowed to do it.…
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Confused . . CSA / CMEC / CMS . . . who actually sorts maintenance now ?
Hi , after earlier posts regards csa info , i am a little confused , when i have had dealings with the csa in the past it was called the csa and i was on the csa 1 system. My Questions are - 1. what is csa 2 ? 2. why have i heard of cmec ( a supposed superior to csa ? ), then when i try to find some info on the governments…
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CSA want to open a new case eventhough my ex closed it , can this happen ?
Hi . to cut a long history of info short this is my problem. In 2001 i splitup from my ex, we had one child, when i left the family home (it was her home already by the way/i moved in with her) i instantly/voluntarily paid a fair weekly figure for maintenance at £50 per week. Because my ex wasn't happy with this amount (…
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Advice please re leaving employment
Please could anyone advise me where I stand? I live with my g/f who has no children and who owns her own house. She is in receipt of an ill health pension. I am on CSA2 and am due to carry on for a few more years yet. I am currently in full time employment but we want to upsticks and relocate some distance away which means…
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CSA-do they know what they are doing?
Idon't think so! My partner has been paying maintenace for his daughter since she was born. In Oct 2010 they contacted him to say he owed arrears and did a recalculation of the amount he was to pay (£350 out of Novembers wages - impeccable timing). Anyway, deductions continued until November 2013. He had a phone call from…
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CSA and their stupidity......
Hiya everyone this may be a little long winded but will try to keep it short and sweet... I need a little advise really..... I recently contacted the CSA for cm from ex as he hasnt paid up for 3years, I got informed 2weeks ago that in OCT 2010 he had stopped claiming benefits ( I had a Nil assessment in July 2010 which is…
