Reassesment on CSA.

kelloggs36

That doesn't mean that you will be assessed under the new rules - just that the carer's allowance will be reduced!). I need to know the following:

NRP net income per month
Your net income per month (separate out any child benefit, or tax credits though)
Housing costs - if mortgage, amount outstanding, monthly payments and interest rate. If rent, the amount per month you pay
Council tax you pay
Ages of all the children for whom you have to pay maintenance
Do you have any other children in your household? If so, are they just yours or yours and the NRP's?

Blonde_Bint

Thanks watsonnicole1 when this happened to us no one believed me. It had never happened to anyone that I knew you see. People said i'd made a mistake should have seen my best friends face when I showed her the paper work, the best of it was that the csa only upped the amount when I claimed, so its obvious thats why they took the... think it was a tenner a week back then. All paperwork dated within the same week.

DS yes it is a bad thing to happen actually more a pointless activity really, at the time I was just mildly amused by it, at least it was a simple just upped our payments by the exact amount of chb, could have been worse could have taken a fiver extra:D oh btw not sure this occurance had anything to do with the pwc from what I remember I dont think we had a problem with her at this time so I dont think she prodded the csa on this occasion but I could be wrong she could have phoned CSA when our child was born, anythings possible.


lol csa: 'nice one nrp getting extra ten quid in their household, I dont think so, i'll have that'

LizzieS_2

Blonde_Bint wrote: »

upped our payments by the exact amount of chb, could have been worse could have taken a fiver extra:D oh btw not sure this occurance had anything to do with the pwc from what I remember I dont think we had a problem with her at this time so I dont think she prodded the csa on this occasion but I could be wrong she could have phoned CSA when our child was born, anythings possible.

Ok an answer in maths (sorry if csa headings are incorrect).
If the maintenace requirement is say £50pw from your husband but household affordability (which includes all income from anywhere) says he can only afford £20pw, then £20pw it is. Another child will add more to the needs of your husbands income, but it will also bring an extra income of £10pw (using your figure here so as not to confuse anyone). Overall the maintenance requirement will have gone down from £50pw, but it would still be more than the extra income you gained.

The csa would not automatically reassess (that is my understanding even when the pwc is on benefits), so the reasssessement could only come 2 ways:

1) pwc asked, knowing there was another child - with a copy of the calculation and a genral concept of how the system works, she could see the payment would go up.

2) nrp reported an additional child which then had a knock on effect.