When to tell the CSA?

ballsonyournose

First post here and i can see there are lots of issues with the csa! Would really appreciate some advice.

Im currently paying between £400-£500 per month by DEO (last month was over £1000!). Currently earn about £56k, but am changing my work habits to spend more time with my son and fianc!e, which means earning £23k.

The CSA have calculated that my protected earnings are around £1400 per month. My question is, do i have to tell the CSA ill no longer be earning as much? If i dont tell CSA, my employer wont take anything from my earnings.

Second question, i dragged my ex through court for about a year to get a contact order in place, as she wouldn't let me see my son at all.
This cost me around £15k, and cost my son the chance of being educated at one of the best private schools in Edinburgh.
Does the CSA take into account monies spent forcing a witch to give me access to my son?

borders_dude

ballsonyournose wrote: »

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Does the CSA take into account monies spent forcing a witch to give me access to my son?

I doubt it!

karenx

If you don't tell them then arrears will start to build up and they will get your employer details through your national insurance number anyway. Either way there's no way out of paying

ballsonyournose

Cheers Karen, there is already a DEO through my employer.

Having read a bit more, as you say, the arrears build up and a liability order would be their next step.

I do wonder what happens if after telling the CSA my income will be halved, they don't adjust the amount and nothing gets paid, and along comes a liability order!

Bit silly how you can apply for a variation, say travel costs to see your child, but spending £15,000 to see your child isant deemed a legitimate cost.

P.S Karen, if i really wanted to avoid paying, its quite simple; being a national of three countries (three passports) and having non-domicile status in the UK. Employer is UK based, but i could grab a shelf company. NOT my intention tho

karenx

Through it do you now have acess? As your payments may get reduced if you have overnight stays with your child.
Just inform them when your income changes and they will request payslips to prove this, then they will work out the new amount and change it.

kelloggs36

You will need to notify them of the drop in income and they will do a new assessment based on this.

markeymark

as kellogs says, once yur work habits actually change the CSA will continue to assess you on details they have

just ask for a re-assessment when your wages go down and you have pay slips to prove it, makes common sense

ballsonyournose

Thanks, the problem i see is getting a reassessment done in June when my wages drop, the CSA using the last two of three pay slips which indicate £56k.

Along come the arrears and liability order, not to mention my son not getting a penny because the protected earnings will cover my entire salary.

markeymark

if thats what you are worried about then you have u will have to wait till you have 3 months with same wage amount, personally cant see you have any arguments with the CSA to be fair, wish i was only paying £400-500 per month and im on a wage thats just went up to £27k

and by law CSA can only take a max of 40% of your net earnings

catenorfolk

You just need to get a letter from your employer confirming change in salary and send with a covering letter to the CSA. Its pretty easy. Once they have this information (send it recorded delivery) they will re-asssess and get the new figures to you quite quickly.

gratefulforhelp_2

Goodness, what an odd thing to do - to have a baby with a witch!