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At last

16 years ago my financial situation was dire and about to get worse as the CSA came into my life. I stuck with things and continued to rebuild my life, honour my CSA payments, clear debts and now I'm done. As a father, i'm not that good, so focused on ensuring the financial part didn't suffer. It would be easy to dissapear or play hard ball - but I didn't, I just accepted it, got my head down and worked.

Financially it has never been easy and it still isn't as I now have to plan for my retirement, but for all those starting off with the CSA or those in difficulty, stick with it as there is an end.

I was with CSA1 all my time and over the period of time shelled out over £120k and remember that's after I've paid tax.

Chin up all you NRPs :T :T

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  • DUTR
    DUTR Posts: 12,958 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Congratulations,
    3 to 6 yrs to go for me :o
  • bdt1
    bdt1 Posts: 891 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    15 months...........................................................unless they contact us when child is 35 to say £50k arrears due........................they seem to do that these days
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