Help For My Son

blimey40

They have just set him up and charging him £55 based on 15% of last years salary. He earns less this year and was asked to send in 5 wage slips to confirm he was being paid less. The calculation should be around £40 and not £55 and they have told him to call back in 52 weeks time and they will review it then. Surely, this cannot be right??? I know they are dim over at these places, but it must be based on what he earns now, surely? He has followed there guidelines, but they are simply not helping.

He owes no arrears, as was set up about 6-8 weeks ago after the PWC started to move the goalposts about visitation. It just goes to show how heavily weighted in the NRP's favour this horrid organisation is.

Any advice, would be welcome on him being able to have the right deductions from his salary, without having to wait a year.

Valli

Can I ask you to reword your post as a lot is unclear.

I would suggest you leave out references to your own past situation. It's not relevant and is clouding the issue here.

If your son has care of the children he is the PWC (parent with care) if not he is the NRP (non resident parent). But 'weighted in favour of the NRP?'

Is he being ASKED to pay arrears?

How many children?

Child support and visitation are two separate issues. Unfortunately sometimes some parents use visitation rights as a bargaining tool.

blimey40

Okay,

he is the NRP. No arrears, started up after PWC went to the CSA and duaghter is aged 7. (one child) Always paid privately beforehand . He is being deducted from a DEO and the figure being deducted are based on last years earnings.

He is a postman and earned more last year, but they simply will not budge and have asked for him to call back in 52 weeks!!, when they will review it then. Meanwhile, the calculation is around 20-22% of his current wage.

I know visitation has no bearing on the case, but thats part of the reason why she went to the CSA. My son being the NRP used to pay £40 per week and felt the calculation would be roughly the same now

Donedoingdebt

Have you put all your requests & proof in writing?

When contacting them by phone, you will often get fobbed off with a load of duff information by the CSA. It's harder for them to do this if there is a paper trail which can be referred to.

Blob

Hi Blimey40.

Your first post was fine by me, can only agree with Donedoingdebt make sure it is in writing and take the paper trail to you MP ands see what they can do to ease the system.

In the event that they have now moved to an anual assesment then my understanding is that his pay will have to change by about 25% before they will do a new assesment! Noone said it was fair!

rachelle60

I am going through the csa for maintenance from my partner and they are using his wages that he gets now not last years, if they can do that for my useless ex then surely they can do something for your son, my ex has done everything he can to try and get out of paying and people like your son who want to pay are the ones that get penalised

brians_daughter

usually they go off last 5 weeks wages slips or 2 months (depending how he is paid) If there has been overtime etc in those weeks that isnt usual you can ask them to look at the wider picture....

Has your son been co operating with csa...sorry to ask but the few ppl i know who get assessed on annual income have either sent p60 info to csa or not been co operating and the employer has forwarded the details on... did he initially send p60 info rather than wage slips?

I know this must be hard for you and your son, but i must point out the CSA are not always on the side of the PWC... I am a PWC and (until very recently) a NRPP so i can see both sides of the coin. and the CSA have not been on 'my side' when assessing my sons father i can assure you.

marksoton

Tell him to ring the bloody idiots up and DEMAND a reassessment. The rules governing assessments only being done once a year are not even in place yet ! :mad:

This is starting to happen more and more often,this is not the first case that has appeared on these boards. I suspect that this is not individual case workers being mistaken it is a management dictate to reduce workload.

They have pulled similar stunts in the past. Your son is being denied his legal rights within child support law. Try them one more time and if they will not budge involve his MP.

This sort of thing makes me so mad, they don't give a fig about the impact on people,quite often the very children they are meant to be collecting money for.

Blob

They only care about meeting thie rtargets and getting their bouns for it, as for the rest of us and the law, not a chance!

blimey40

This case has liteally started about 6 weeks ago, so no danger of it being arrears or him not abiding what they have asked for. He specifically told them, not to assess him on last years salary (posties were paid more for overtime etc), he was asked to wait 5 weeks and send in 5 week wage slips, which I did with a covering letter.

he had a case worker, who now cannot be reached and they are based in plymouth. They, said no need to go through to caseworker as they could deal with it. The person on the other end of the line, told him that he would have to call back in 52 weeks time to be re-assessed.

I will be sending another letter, but paying £55 is way of the top and it should be £40-£42, these £13 pounds will keep accumlating and if this is happening to him, must be happening to others. He is very unlikely to get it back at a future date.

pinksleepybear

Is there any chance he misheard them? It strikes me that 52 weeks is an odd term - wouldn't most people say a year? Could it have been 5 to 10 weeks?