Maintenance payments and new partner's salary

jarhead66

The glourious CSA have no plans to move anyone over from CSA1 to CSA2 as they say deducting 15%, 20% and 25% from a net income is far too complecated for the staff of the CSA!!! I have been waiting since 2003 to transfer to CSA2, I was told in 2006 that i would be transfering but guess what thay had I.T. problems!!! so because of the S**t service that the CSA provide i am now paying over £200 amonth more than what i should have been if the CSA had done there job properly!!! The CSA excuse we are just following the rules set by the govement,, well i thought that excuss went out in germany in 1945!!

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clearingout

Birdy12 wrote: »

Actually, I have one more question, sorry.

I'e just read a few more things on the Child Support section. Statistically, what are the chances that partner is paying maintenance under CSA1 rules? Have the majority of these claims been phased out/moved over? Is it more likely that's he's paying under CSA2 ruling?

Don't know if it helps but I think his previous children are 9 and 12 years old. Cousin and partner's child together is 18 months old.

Birdy

when did the mother put in a CSA claim? That's the crucial date you need - prior to 2003, still on CSA1. After that, they're on CSA2.

PreludeForTimeFeelers

jarhead66 wrote: »

The CSA excuse we are just following the rules set by the govement,, well i thought that excuss went out in germany in 1945!!

...and people saying 'that's what they said in Nazi Germany in 1945' went out in 1946!

jarhead66

1945/1946 and adolf eichmann even tried that excuse in 1962 in a Israel civilian court!!! but you must admit that alot of the staff at the CSA have a simular attitude towards N.R.P's!!! LOL

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Birdy12

clearingout wrote: »

when did the mother put in a CSA claim? That's the crucial date you need - prior to 2003, still on CSA1. After that, they're on CSA2.

I know very little about the partner's situation prior to him meeting my OH's cousin so I would have no idea when the CSA claim was made.

Hypothetically speaking, if the claim is CSA1 and partner didn't meet OH's cousin until around 2008, is the claim amount then amended to take into consideration OH's cousin's salary? Would partner's ex have realised they had moved in together and submitted a fresh application, still under CSA1 ruling?

I'm a bit confused on this point.

Cheers, Birdy

kingfisherblue

Birdy12 wrote: »

I know very little about the partner's situation prior to him meeting my OH's cousin so I would have no idea when the CSA claim was made.

Hypothetically speaking, if the claim is CSA1 and partner didn't meet OH's cousin until around 2008, is the claim amount then amended to take into consideration OH's cousin's salary? Would partner's ex have realised they had moved in together and submitted a fresh application, still under CSA1 ruling?

I'm a bit confused on this point.

Cheers, Birdy

I'm not very clear on CSA1 calculations as my case is CSA2, but I would imagine that you have to inform the CSA of changes in circumstances.

Birdy12

Aahh, so the onus is on OH's cousin's partner to inform the CSA that he has moved in with a partner and she earns x in salary? (still assuming it's CSA1 ruling).

Birdy

kingfisherblue

I would imagine so. I get child support from my ex (although it was a battle to get anything for over four years - but that's another story!). When his daughter was born, he was entitled to pay a lesser amount, but the CSA wouldn't take my word for it that he had a child in his household - the details came up when I was chasing the CSA up about getting some maintenance in the first place. They said that there was no child living with him according to their records, and they could not take my word for it due to data protection (even though it would have saved him some money). My ex didn't tell the CSA until his daughter was about three years old, even though I suggested he informed them.

My ex also moved at least twice and didn't tell the CSA of his new address. As I didn't know it either, they had to track him down some other way. the address that he had given was his parents, but he moved to a diffferent town about an hour's drive away.

The CSA told me that it was my ex's responsibility to inform them of any changes in his life and that he could face prosecution if he failed to tell them. I know he was prosecuted about his failure to pay any CM, but as he was unemployed at the time, they could only take £5 a week from his benefits. When he started work and failed to tell the CSA, my payments stopped so I rang to enquire why. The CSA said that they didn't know, but soon discovered that he had applied for working tax credit, so he obviously had to be working. As he had again failed to inform the CSA of a change in circumstances, and had repeatedly shown himself to be unreliable, he has to pay CM via a Deduction of Earnings Order. He also had to pay all outstanding arrears.