CSA but ive never claimed??

Zara33

thesaint wrote:

May I take the oppurtunity to apologise to the O.P for the accusations of benefit fraud levelled at you.:o

Walking away now>>>>>>>>>> we seem to be covering old ground no point in banging my head against a brick wall!

zoezoe_3

sammy_kaye18 wrote:

2. Seeing as i have never had to claim Child Support as i dont have a child with an ex partner they said there was therefore no debt owing as he (my bf) has always provided for his child, hence the debt being cleared so easily.

not quite. For 5 months, you claimed Income Support and the state provided for your child. Any money your payment paid you during this time should have been declared and deducted from the IS you received. If this did not happen then there has been a mistake.

thesaint

May I take the oppurtunity to apologise to the OP for the renewed accusations of benefit fraud levelled at you.

kelloggs36

on what grounds thesaint? From what the OP is saying there has been an overpayment of benefit - either by failure to declare or by way of a mistake which has been acknowledged.

Zara33

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

thesaint

kelloggs36 wrote:

on what grounds thesaint? From what the OP is saying there has been an overpayment of benefit - either by failure to declare or by way of a mistake which has been acknowledged.

I will explain why I apologised.
The O.P. has been accused of benefit fraud. The O.P. made it clear on more than one occassion that she told income support about her circumstances.
If Income support have made a mistake, the O.P has received money that she is not entitled to, but has not committed benefit fraud. I do not expect you or anyone else to agree with me, but the O.P seemed genuine in her attempt to receive help on this site and has been accused of committing fraud which I find to be without base.

kelloggs36

Agreed and this was put into a few other posts that there would be an overpayment which may be written off, but the CSA can't do this - it has to be Income Support if they prove that they were in receipt of all the relevant info.

Zara33

thesaint wrote:

I will explain why I apologised.
The O.P. has been accused of benefit fraud. The O.P. made it clear on more than one occassion that she told income support about her circumstances.
If Income support have made a mistake, the O.P has received money that she is not entitled to, but has not committed benefit fraud. I do not expect you or anyone else to agree with me, but the O.P seemed genuine in her attempt to receive help on this site and has been accused of committing fraud which I find to be without base.

Would you feel better if i retracted my allegation then and made a full public apology?
Since it was me whom said it was benefit fraud

kelloggs36

I doubt it Zara! Anyway, you were absolutely right in the main concept in there being an overpayment and not being allowed to make private agreements. There quite clearly HAS been an overpayment which the OP needs to sort out. Unless the CSA have evidence (or Income Support) that she did tell them everything that she says she did, she will have to repay the money. I hope that she kept evidence of exactly what she told them - amounts etc and dates that the money would be paid.

thesaint

kelloggs36 wrote:

I doubt it Zara! Anyway, you were absolutely right in the main concept in there being an overpayment and not being allowed to make private agreements. There quite clearly HAS been an overpayment which the OP needs to sort out. Unless the CSA have evidence (or Income Support) that she did tell them everything that she says she did, she will have to repay the money. I hope that she kept evidence of exactly what she told them - amounts etc and dates that the money would be paid.

Kelloggs, can I just say that I was the 1st person to reply to the O.P.
The first thing I told her that if she is claiming certain benefits, she doesn't have a choice where the CSA are involved.

I have not seen anyone say that money has not been overpaid, so not sure why you have stressed this point so many times.