CSA could cost me my career

skiTTish

Yes £650 does seem like an awful but having kids is expensive ,if you didnt want to pay mayeb you should have thought of that before ?
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13Kent

If you are on the old system you won't be put onto the new one - we've been down that road with our MP and he was as much use as a chocolate teapot!

The problem with arrears is that the CSA are under orders to collect them within 2 years so they are increasing the amounts paid. I thought they were only meant to be able to take a maximum of 30% of your pay anyway (but maybe that doesn't include arrears) but I could be wrong I'm sure someone on here could confirm that.

Ask for a Clerical breakdown of your calculation. You may have to ask more than once but insist on it - this will give you full details of how your amount has been calculated.

I hope you manage to sort it out.

dibnah_2

Welcome to the world of the CSA, I dont know what your take home pay is, but I was on £1100 take home and paid £650 to the csa for one child which when you add my £400 mortgage for the ex family home which I was still living in into the equation left me £50 a month to live on. I got my MP involved after I was told I had to pay arrears for the previous 3 years as well even though I had already paid them and had bank proof of payment but got nowhere. My ex wife had a rich new husband and a good paying job. I subsequently had a total mental breakdown and was put on the at risk register. I lost my house and later I lost my job due to not being able to handle pressure anymore. So are you better off on benefits? Well benefit of £62 a week will see a deduction of £6.50 for csa maintenence so you have to survive on £55.50 a week (which is over £200 better off than I was when I was working!). If they stop your benefits you are still be no worse off if you are in the same situation as me. Forget about shared care, my child is here every holiday for the entire holiday and 4 days a week every week, they wont listen and simply take her word for contact they wont even come out unannounced and see for themselves that my child is here.

The bottom line, you are the wrong sex in a matriarcally legislated country. You are lower than any person of any ethnic origin in their eyes and anything you say is lies. Only women speak the truth and have any rights. Once you understand that this is how the CSA operate you can better try and assess how you can deal with them.

dibnah_2

In addition to my earlier post, do not quit your job or force your employer to sack you as you will still be liable for the full amount, this is true if you tried to take a lower paying job even if you took a lower paying job for a good reason. this is because you are seen as deliberately trying to reduce your charge, the old rules are really bad. Your only way out is redundancy or in your case a discharge.

In response to an earlier post, I was told 10 years ago by a very agressive CSA advisor that even though we had a court agreement for payments which were always paid on time and more besides that I had to pay the csa if I wanted to see my child. But I agree with the poster above the csa payment is for maintence of the child not for contact.

As someone else posted the normal CSA payment is around 40 % but in my case this was much more. I guy I worked with who took home £1000 a month and had no mortgage was paying £800 a month for one child.

wendyloub

hmmmm maybe I should contact the CSA I get £220 per month for 3 children from my ex, and he moans at that!!

I do think £650 per month sounds like alot of money for one child, especially a child who you don't see, and who's mother is living with another man. I couldn't do that to my ex and would have to sort something out with him myself.

DX2

skiTTish wrote: »

Yes £650 does seem like an awful but having kids is expensive ,if you didnt want to pay mayeb you should have thought of that before ?
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:rolleyes: A little late now don't you think!

DX2

Nixxx wrote: »

I haven't read the whole thread so apologies if this has already been mentioned but i just read this bit on the CSA website

http://www.csa.gov.uk/en/setup/who-can-use-csa.asp

"Who can apply for maintenance through the CSA?

A parent or person with care or a non-resident parent can ask us to work out child maintenance and set up a payment arrangement.

In some circumstances, we may not be able to accept an application. For example, we may not accept cases where:

• the parent with care or the children are living abroad, or
• the non-resident parent lives abroad and does not work for a UK-based employer, the civil service or the armed forces, or
• a court order instructing the non-resident parent to pay child maintenance was made before April 2003, or
• a court order covering child maintenance was made after April 2003 but has not been in force for 12 months, or
• there is a written maintenance agreement which was made before 5 April 1993. "

Don't know if i've read it wrong or if its of any use but i thought it best to post just in case.

I think you have read that wrong! Saying nobody in the armed forces don't have to pay child support would be the biggest loophole ever lol Every NRP out there would be signing up just to avoid child support.

shell_542

dibnah wrote: »

As someone else posted the normal CSA payment is around 40 % but in my case this was much more. I guy I worked with who took home £1000 a month and had no mortgage was paying £800 a month for one child.

The normal figure for CSA2 is 15% for 1 child, 20% for 2 and 25% for 3 or more. 40% is the MOST they are supposed to take from your income if there are arrears.

Nixxx

Ah i see, didn't think of it like that, please ignore my post.

thanks

DX2

wendyloub wrote: »

hmmmm maybe I should contact the CSA I get £220 per month for 3 children from my ex, and he moans at that!!

I do think £650 per month sounds like alot of money for one child, especially a child who you don't see, and who's mother is living with another man. I couldn't do that to my ex and would have to sort something out with him myself.

Oh noooooooo the PWC isn't allowed a life, how dare she live with another man :rotfl: