CSA asking questions

FreeworldImpossible

Hi all.

Wonder if someone can help me here.

I live with my partner of 11 years and she has a 13yo son from a previous relationship for which she receives around £10 a week in maintenance from the CSA. The CSA recently decided to look at the claim again (he's been paying £10 a week for around 7 years) and sent my partner a letter telling her the payments were going up to around £550 a month! :shocked: And they told her these payments would start in August, however, they also rang her a couple of days before the letter arrived and told her that her ex is not complying with them.

Anyway, yesterday, she receives a letter saying they need some info from her. The letter requests her employers details and 5 pay slips from her which I can understand to some extent, but then it asks for my name, address d'oh, date of birth and NI number. They also request, that if she has I child to myself, that we send details of my employer and 5 pay slips. I'm just wondering why this has any relevance to her ex's maintenance assessment????

They also request to know who our mortgage is with, the type of mortgage, the original amount borrowed, current balance, interest rate, capital paid each month, interest paid each month and how much our council tax is for the year. :mad: WHY??? What bearing does this have on their assessment??

She doesn't claim any benefits, except for £11 or so a week child tax credits or whatever it is, but that's not been paid to her for around 4 years since they over paid us. Though I did get made redundant 3 weeks ago and have just started receiving contribution based JSA.

Many thanks!!
Mark

kelloggs36

It has a bearing because the PWC income is used in the CS1 assessments. If you have a child together, your income will impact on the child allowance given to the PWC. If PWC works and you do too, then she will get half the child allowance but if you don't work she gets the full amount. The housing costs are required to work out what assessable income the PWC has (if any). If PWC has any assessable income then this is put into the formula, and the NRP portion is slightly less as both parents are to be contributing towards the costs of their children.

mommarat

kelloggs36 wrote: »

It has a bearing because the PWC income is used in the CS1 assessments. If you have a child together, your income will impact on the child allowance given to the PWC. If PWC works and you do too, then she will get half the child allowance but if you don't work she gets the full amount. The housing costs are required to work out what assessable income the PWC has (if any). If PWC has any assessable income then this is put into the formula, and the NRP portion is slightly less as both parents are to be contributing towards the costs of their children.

As far as I am aware the CSA only need the PWC partner details if they have a shared child

kelloggs36

Which is what I said

onetomany

i wouldnt give any details i f the child lives with you it dosent matter how much you earn etc is all done on the absent partne sounds like x tryng to make out joint care

FreeworldImpossible

kelloggs36 wrote: »

It has a bearing because the PWC income is used in the CS1 assessments. If you have a child together, your income will impact on the child allowance given to the PWC. If PWC works and you do too, then she will get half the child allowance but if you don't work she gets the full amount. The housing costs are required to work out what assessable income the PWC has (if any). If PWC has any assessable income then this is put into the formula, and the NRP portion is slightly less as both parents are to be contributing towards the costs of their children.

Thanks!!

I'm a touch confused as to how us having a child together should impact on what his Dad has to pay to support his son mind, but it's irrelevant anyway as we don't have any other children, only the one who the maintenance claim is for.

kelloggs36

It all has to do with the exempt income of the PWC - she will get the full child allowance for the child that is hers and the NRP's but will only get half if any child you have between you has a parent that can afford to contribute towards them - your child is supported by you and the PWC, so she gets less allowance in her exempt income. You are at liberty to refuse to give your details at this stage. Is this a normal assessment or has the NRP requested a departure on the grounds that you can contribute towards the housing costs?

FreeworldImpossible

kelloggs36 wrote: »

You are at liberty to refuse to give your details at this stage. Is this a normal assessment or has the NRP requested a departure on the grounds that you can contribute towards the housing costs?

I'm not sure what you mean by this kellogs......sorry!

But what happened was her son, for reasons we're still not 100% sure of, said that he no longer wished to spend two days every weekend at his Dads. Upon hearing this his Dad rang him and more or less threatened that if he didn't visit him the next weekend he'd have nothing more to do with him ever again. :mad: Which naturally upset the son to such an extent he hasn't wanted anything more to do with him since.

After a few weeks his Dad's family got involved and it culminated in the Grand parents turning up at the house more or less pinning it all on me and my partner, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Anyway, whilst at the house the grand parents more or less made out that it was their sons maintenance which paid for our house and everything, which really riled my partner. Quite how they claim that when you receive £43 a month is beyond me. :mad: It doesn't even cover a months school dinners for him, let alone finance a house. My partner was so incensed by this that she got onto the CSA to ask how, despite his Dad having had many different jobs over the years her maintenance had not changed in over 7 years! And it's escalated from there really. So I'm not too sure of what's what anymore. I've filled in the form, and given them my details as I don't mind supporting her and her son at all. In fact I look upon him as my own. I was just curious as to why they were requesting such information about myself and our mortgage.

I do know though that he hasn't paid any maintenance now for getting on two months, and when the CSA rang her a couple of weeks ago they said he was being non-cooperative with them.

kelloggs36

It is just a run of the mill assessment at the moment. If the NRP wants to, he can make a separate application to the CSA for a departure from the assessment to factor in your contribution to the housing costs which will mean that the PWC's bit gets less housing costs to offset against her income and this in turn increases her liability and reduces his. If PWC only works part time or has no job this will fail anyway as there won't be any assessable income to put into the calculation. You however can do the same - apply for the NRP partner's income to be used in the assessment in respect of reducing the NRP's allowable housing costs which will increase the amount used in the assessment.

D3CAV

Hi All,

Sorry but iam new to forums and not sure how to post a new one.Can somebody advise on the following.
I have recently received a letter from the csa asking for my partners contract of employment,this is after sending all information they requested i.e payslips for myself and my partner ect.I dont understand why they need this it seems really strange.does anybody know why they would need this..?? Please answer if possible.

Thanks

kelloggs36

Is this a CS1 or a CS2 assessment? ie when did the case start?