csa arrears

musikman1

the csa are chasing me for arrears dating back to 1992,my childeran are grown up with childeran of thier own is this legal,they have made an attachment order on my wage i havnt heard from them in over 4 years then this.any one please advise im at my wits end thankyou

Mr_Green_Genes

The quick answer is that it's very difficult to know what to say, given that we have so little information.

If you owe money from the early 90s and the case hasn't been closed, yes it could be legal. On the other hand, there are so many ways in which the alleged arrears may be nonsense that this might be a fishing expedition (they tried that on me once).

Can we have more details please?

musikman1

i was paying child support by means of an attachment of earnings order but because i never reached my protected earnings level my wages dept didnt take anything then i was re assessed by the csa and because i had my childeran every weekend they give me a zero assessment but unknown to me they now say when i didnt have enough to pay because of my protected earnings the amount that i should have paid has been building up so basically i didnt earn enough to pay 17 years ago but now i have to pay this back to the treasury??? they have now got a attachment on my wage

kelloggs36

musikman1 wrote: »

the csa are chasing me for arrears dating back to 1992,my childeran are grown up with childeran of thier own is this legal,they have made an attachment order on my wage i havnt heard from them in over 4 years then this.any one please advise im at my wits end thankyou

The CSA didn't exist until 1993.

kelloggs36

musikman1 wrote: »

i was paying child support by means of an attachment of earnings order but because i never reached my protected earnings level my wages dept didnt take anything then i was re assessed by the csa and because i had my childeran every weekend they give me a zero assessment but unknown to me they now say when i didnt have enough to pay because of my protected earnings the amount that i should have paid has been building up so basically i didnt earn enough to pay 17 years ago but now i have to pay this back to the treasury??? they have now got a attachment on my wage

If you never reached the protected earnings level, it implies that your wages decreased - did you ever tell them?

Hawkmoon69

Protected earnings level on CSA2 is 60% of net income. If you earned a wage then you had enough to pay. My friend was on the 'dole' and he payed £1.50 from his fortnightly giro. Your employer may have been at fault here. This is gonna be a minefield mate.

Write a letter asking for a complete breakedown of the account. and trace all your earnings back to said date. It's gonna be a long hard fight.

Good luck.

Cozworth806

Old rules exempt income was set at personal benefit allowance and housing costs, but it suggest that you may have been assessed on higher wages that then dropped.
It is possible that you were assessed to pay for a time due to this which was never collected.

helper84

of course you are going to have arrears, if you had an assessment to pay some amount of money each week yet you can see nothing is coming out of your wages then i cant understand what the shock is that you have arrears.
it doesnt matter if its the csa, your gas bill or the council tax, the fact is you had an amount to pay each week and it wasnt paid = arrears

the protected earning level is given to your employer to ensure they do not take more than amount. if they cant take anything because of that level then its doen to you to pay the money by another method, or at least contact the CSA if you feel there is something wrong with the details they hold of your earnings.

im not siding with the CSA but you were clearly non compliant in the first place hence the reason they put the earnings order on in the first place, its not there fault the protected earnings breached.

doelani

musikman1 wrote: »

i was paying child support by means of an attachment of earnings order but because i never reached my protected earnings level my wages dept didnt take anything then i was re assessed by the csa

Did your wages dept tell CSA that you were below protected earnings? If noone told CSA your arrears will build up.

When my daughter left school last year I was owed over £2k even though my ex paid by DOE, this was normal as sometimes his employer did not send payments regularly and he was off work sick a few years ago when I recieved nothing. As soon as my daughter left school his employer decided to stop the DEO without the CSA confirming this and took months to get it reinstated to get the arrears owed. Employer said he had a period when he was not earning enough to reach protected earnings about 2 years ago and also 4 years ago. Problem was his employer or my ex never informed CSA of this so the arrears mounted up. I was told his liability stood as the CSA were not informed at teh time. After 6 months and an ivestiagation it was found my ex did still owe me the money and the DEO was reinstated and even though my daughter has been working for 8 months and is almost 19 I am now getting CSA again.

musikman1

Hawkmoon69 wrote: »

Protected earnings level on CSA2 is 60% of net income. If you earned a wage then you had enough to pay. My friend was on the 'dole' and he payed £1.50 from his fortnightly giro. Your employer may have been at fault here. This is gonna be a minefield mate.

Write a letter asking for a complete breakedown of the account. and trace all your earnings back to said date. It's gonna be a long hard fight.

Good luck.

They refuse to give me a breakdown because i owe less than £10k

musikman1

kelloggs36 wrote: »

If you never reached the protected earnings level, it implies that your wages decreased - did you ever tell them?

my wage didnt decrease i kept them imformed all the way the had a attachment order and sent me paperwork each week but never mentioned any arrears building up.as for the csa forming in 1993 they are chasing me from 92