Child Maintenance (CSA) questions (merged)

black-saturn

This might be back payment for the child as he has not paid for it in the past. You need to contact the CSA though and ask if they would do it in more manageable payments. I think they take a percentage of his wages so either he is on a very high wage or they have got it severely wrong.

kellyaicken

His take home pay is about £2,700 per month, but already pays £260. per month for his two children who he sees every weekend and once in the week. Obviously he is also supporting my two children and myself as I have gone back into full time studying and then there is the mortgage and bills to pay, at the end of the day we are just struggling to keep our heads above water as it is, this £500 a month loss will tip us over the edge finacially.

hobo28

Is this £500 including the £260 or is the total amount £760?

shaunc196

Contact the CSA, as he should be getting discounts for maintaining your children, as well as his others.

Kelloggs36 will be here shortly, he's our resident CSA Expert, and should be able to point you in the right direction

kellyaicken

He pays £260 to his two boys who we have every weekend and one night in the week, so pretty much shared care really, as he pays for all there school clothes and there out of school clubs. This is not through the CSA but through an agreement with his ex-wife. The Csa have now taken the order through his wages for £500 per month. We have had no warning of this, no letters, no nothing.

kellyaicken

Sorry did not make that very clear. £260 paid to ex wife. Now Csa taking £500 for other child that partner has never even seen or ever had contact with. So in total £760 per month! hope this clarifys, sorry I am all over the place at the moment. x

thesaint

Are you saying that your partner has not had any correspondence from the C.S.A until now?

Today upon my partners arrrival at work, he has an order from the CSA saying that they are deducting £500 a month from his wages, this has come as a massive shock and we do not know which way to turn or what to do.

kellyaicken

Nothing at all, he was in a realtionship with this person 6 years ago, and it was a short realtionship.He had made it very clear to her from the start he did not want any more children as he already had 2 from his previous marriage. She was on contraception, but fell pregnant anyway. When they split and she said she was pregnant, she said she was keeping the baby but she will never ask for any money or for him to see the child. He has had no contact with her or the child since that day and nothing fromt he CSA ever! Apparantly the law has changed within the csa now, because she has been on benefits for all these years, that she needed to name the father so she could still receive her housing benefit, she has obviously done that, they have now tracked him down through his employment and are now taking £570 out of his wages.

Zara33

are we a 100% sure the chap is the father to the child?

kellyaicken

This is exactly what I said to my partner, he feels that he is, but who knows. I said about a DNA test, but he is under the impression that is going to cost him even more money. At the end of the day the CSA have based this figure on assumptions, it is a total shambles,the irony is the child at question her does not even see or benefit from this money that my partner is having to pay, it is just a debt to the government!!!