CSA Arrears PLEASE HELP

nataliekara123

Hello, my partner has serious CSA arrears, on Friday morning the Debt Colelctors came to the house demanding the money, its about £2010.32 he owes in arrears. The thing is he has not worked for a year. He was signed on but had to sign off to help his friend out with some work. My question is how far can this go if he cant pay? He does not have the money to pay £1000 this month and the remainder enxt month. Please help!!!!

nataliekara123

Please help me!!!

Kimitatsu

Did he know about the arrears before? If he did then he should have contacted the CSA to arrange for a payment plan.

Have youtried to contact the CSA? If not that would be my first suggestion, if you have then you need to get an emergency appointment with the CAB and get someone to act on your behalf.

kaya

if he doesnt pay they will take him to the local magistrates court and get a liability order granted (mine is for £20,000!!) , this will enable them to send the bailiffs round or put a charging order against and property you own, if you disagree with the arrears then you need to tell the csa, dont do anything over the telephone, they will lie and decieve you and deny any knowledge of the conversation, do everything in writing and always keep a copy of any correspondence, debt collectors have no powers, bailiffs have powers but they are extremely limited

markeymark

request a payment breakdown asap

nataliekara123

Thanks, he did contact the CSA to tell them about his situation but they didnt want to know and said that he should still be paying his CSA of £160 per month. He lives with his mum still as his ex took his house, can they still take things to repay the debt?

PHYTHIAN

Yep. Get a breakdown and check it and recheck it, they are very very often wrong.

If bailiffs do turn up to take anything....nothing is his , it's all his mums. They can't then take it.

Chances are he will end up in the Magistrates Court and he will fill an Income/Expenditure report. They will make an attatchment of earnings order and take a few quid a week.

nataliekara123

Thanks for everyones help. Will all these arrears go to his ex or have the CSA already paid this to her? He has already filled in a income/expenditures report but nothing was taken into considertion!

jessica10

well he should pay for his child, if i was his ex i would take him to the cleaners. men that dont pay for their kids make me sick!!! now its time for him to start struggling just how the mother to his child has had to

tiggerkian

jessica10 wrote: »

well he should pay for his child, if i was his ex i would take him to the cleaners. men that dont pay for their kids make me sick!!! now its time for him to start struggling just how the mother to his child has had to

:T:T:T good answer meaning you don't know all the circumstances......i know first hand how unhelpful the csa are....i'll leave it there....

shell_542

nataliekara123 wrote: »

Thanks, he did contact the CSA to tell them about his situation but they didnt want to know and said that he should still be paying his CSA of £160 per month. He lives with his mum still as his ex took his house, can they still take things to repay the debt?

Why are they still insisting he must pay £160 a month if he is unemployed ... or is he?

Did he notify them when he stopped working? Did he pay the basic £5 a week when on JSA or IS, whatever he was on. Did he then inform the CSA when he signed off but wasn't working ... but you say he stopped signing on to help a mate with work ... was he earning then? And did he notify the CSA at every change of circumstances?