CSA & Self employed

kelloggs36

She would, but he would explain he can't afford to pay her privately AND the case through the CSA, so she has a choice - if I were the PWC in this case, I would have to accept what was on offer.

kelloggs36

So yes, I do know that she would have to accept, but what I am saying is that she accepts and gets half, or doesn't accept and gets nothing.

blimey40

How do you know its not a IMA??

LizzieS_2

Surely if the first pwc is on good terms, she would understand the need to use the csa?

shell_542

She might understand the need but it doesn't mean she'll be happy about being forced to go throufh them, to go without some payments while assessment is being sorted and suddenly having the amount she's getting altered. A friend of mine was in the PWC2's situation not long ago. She wasn't happy at all about being made to go through the CSA when everything was fine between her and the NRP. She couldn't understand why the CSA couldn't just taken into account the private agreement they had when calculating the other assessment ... which ideally they would do, to minimise their workload as well, but no.

kelloggs36

IMAs don't exist on CS2 cases - it is a DMD.

speedster

kelloggs36 wrote: »

IMAs don't exist on CS2 cases - it is a DMD.

same meat, different gravy.

speedster

shell_542 wrote: »

She might understand the need but it doesn't mean she'll be happy about being forced to go throufh them, to go without some payments while assessment is being sorted and suddenly having the amount she's getting altered. A friend of mine was in the PWC2's situation not long ago. She wasn't happy at all about being made to go through the CSA when everything was fine between her and the NRP. She couldn't understand why the CSA couldn't just taken into account the private agreement they had when calculating the other assessment ... which ideally they would do, to minimise their workload as well, but no.

exactly. some things aren't as black and white as some would have us believe.

there is a grey area to most situations.

kelloggs36

That's as maybe but the law is as it is, and she will have to like it or lump it.

kelloggs36

IMAs were penalty assessments, DMDs aren't - they are only imposed on self employed so that arrears don't build up whilst they get their accounts together.