Problem with csa

GP2_2

My husband pays child support to his ex via a private arrangement, however they have had a falling out and she has contacted the CSA for an assessment. The property we live in is in my name only and they want details of my mortgage statement and details of my earnings. Am i legally obliged to send these, I am not happy about this as the children are nothing to do with me. Any advise?

bdt1

If your husband is being assessed on CS1, then the CSA will ask for your details, as they will want to know your earnings to assess whether you can contribute to housing costs, meaning his personal allowance will be lower! You are not legally obliged to give your details but if not, they will 'assume' you can contribute and a penalty/interim assessment will be made, usually giving him less of a personal allowance. They will also consider council tax payments on CS1

If you are on CS2 - which sounds as if you not, then they would just take a straight % of his wage for each qualifying child, and housing costs wouldn't come into assessment.

Kelloggs is the expert on CS1, she's best to advise you

I am also a NRPP and yes this is very intrusive, but there again this is the CSA. I also doubt it really matters that house not in your husbands name, if he has housing costs, then it this is what they look at.

kelloggs36

if you don't send any housing cost details then the assessment will be very high - it doesn't matter whose name they are in, they will be offset against the NRP income. You aren't legally obliged to provide your details, but again, you won't get any discounts, in fact you won't get any protected income at all if you don't. As a rule of thumb, if you earn more, then don't provide your details, but if you earn less then it may be in your best interests to do so. As far as housing costs are concerned, without them they can't do an assessment and it will be an \ima which will be huge.

Honest_broker07

Basic Question when did they split up, this lets us make assumptions as to old rules or new rules ( some refer to these as CSA1 & CSA2, but CSA1/2 are actually IT systems )

borders_dude

Honest_broker07 wrote: »

Basic Question when did they split up, this lets us make assumptions as to old rules or new rules ( some refer to these as CSA1 & CSA2, but CSA1/2 are actually IT systems )

This does cause confusion sometimes.

Im old rules but on the CSA 2 computer system.