How long does it take the CSA to pay you any money?

RAS

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

No.

He gave up his job when he left me in July 1996 & I haven't seen or heard from him since.

So you might need to put in a claim with the CSA re ex number 1?

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

RAS wrote: »

So you might need to put in a claim with the CSA re ex number 1?

I did in 1996 & they sent me a letter a couple of weeks ago (apparently ex number 2 starting a new claim makes them review any old ones they have on their system) to tell me that nothing had changed & I was still entitled to £0.

Loopy_Girl

Sorry BCS...I didn't know they had different Dad's. I only have ever seen you refer to an 'ex' and talk about your 3 kids.

Obviously the car is an unexpected bill to pay but to be fair you have known that the kids would be foing back to school and that your daughter would need an expensive uniform.

My idea would be to start putting a small sum away from now every week so that you have funds for next year. Won't help you this year but may stop you being in the same situ next year. To be honest you are financially better off than most parents who are on benefits as you do get extra in the house for you and 2 of your kids.

I can't remember what benefits you are on but have you checked (if your council does them) if you are entitled to a school clothing grant?

There's no way the claim will be settled and paying out in a few weeks especially if he is not willing to pay you some money when he picks the kids up but it's worth getting the claim in anyway.

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

Sorry BCS...I didn't know they had different Dad's. I only have ever seen you refer to an 'ex' and talk about your 3 kids.

Obviously the car is an unexpected bill to pay but to be fair you have known that the kids would be foing back to school and that your daughter would need an expensive uniform.

My idea would be to start putting a small sum away from now every week so that you have funds for next year. Won't help you this year but may stop you being in the same situ next year. To be honest you are financially better off than most parents who are on benefits as you do get extra in the house for you and 2 of your kids.

I can't remember what benefits you are on but have you checked (if your council does them) if you are entitled to a school clothing grant?

There's no way the claim will be settled and paying out in a few weeks especially if he is not willing to pay you some money when he picks the kids up but it's worth getting the claim in anyway.

I've got the money for the uniforms but I don't have money to fix the car as well.

Thats why I was hoping that my daughters dad would pay for her uniform as I have to pay for my other 2 son's which would hopefully enable me to pay for my car too.

We live in a small town & I need my car.

I don't think they do school clothing grants anymore or at least my Social worker said that they don't.

It's just frustrating that my car couldn't wait another month to breakdown when I didn't have the uniforms to lay out for. :mad:

Loopy_Girl

It's what they call sod's law I'm afraid!!!

Are you eligible for a budgeting loan? Could maybe try that and then at least the car would be fixed. I know it's pretty vital that the kids are driven to school so maybe that's an option?

Breast_Cancer_Survivor

Loopy_Girl wrote: »

It's what they call sod's law I'm afraid!!!

Are you eligible for a budgeting loan? Could maybe try that and then at least the car would be fixed. I know it's pretty vital that the kids are driven to school so maybe that's an option?

Thanks for that, thats a great idea I hadn't thought about. :T

I was toying with the idea of asking my land lord if I could pay my rent a couple of weeks late so I could get the car fixed.

Shermanator123

They do still do school grants if your on Income support etc.... £20 for a child going to primary school and £40 for Secondary school hope that helps.

hypogal1986

Csa are a waste of space I placed my case january 2008 my ex has always been working and still two years later i've recieved £20 in two years. my ex has moved jobs three times but i have always rang the csa. might take you also a long time to get any money from your ex

skintlady34

Shermanator123 wrote: »

They do still do school grants if your on Income support etc.... £20 for a child going to primary school and £40 for Secondary school hope that helps.

I tried to apply for that and was told that only certain areas have this, our area doesnt do it.

Two4Tuesday

All I can add to this is that the CSA can be slow in paying even when the NRP pays up on time. I had a temp job for a few weeks from August and phoned the CSA the day I got my salary and payslip to pay them via debit card. My ex told me more than a week later that the money still hadn't been transferred to her.