CSA and Inheritance

fatherless

Hi,

My father recently passed away leaving me all of his estate. My mam and dad split when I was just 2 I am now 30, all through my life my dad didn't pay csa or if he did it was a very small amount.

Today the csa contacted me saying my father owes the government about £5000 for owed csa payments. About £3500 to them and £1500 for my mam.

My question is can they take it out of the estate left to me? and why did they wait until he passed away to take it off him? I asked the csa the latter question and they said they didn't know why.

Any information will be appreaciated.

lincroft1710

Any money owed by a deceased at the time of death should be repaid from the estate and usually the beneficiaries will not receive any money until all debts are settled. So, yes, if your father actually owed money to CSA, they can claim it from his estate.

fatherless

Ok thanks for that.

romanempire

If I were you I'd check that with NACSA. I was under the impression that death was the only way to escape the CSA.

R.

PreludeForTimeFeelers

romanempire wrote: »

If I were you I'd check that with NACSA. I was under the impression that death was the only way to escape the CSA.

R.

Nope, they work with the DWP's 'Recovery from Deceased's Estates' teams, again it's something that they never used to follow up on but following some changes in legislation a couple of years back they will now contact the estates if the PWC wants the debt collecting.

iluvfreebies

hiya
Yes i can confirm that if there is money left owing and there is money in the deceased estate this would be payable before any monies were paid to yourself x - sorry to hear about ure dad

eskimo26

PreludeForTimeFeelers wrote: »

Nope, they work with the DWP's 'Recovery from Deceased's Estates' teams, again it's something that they never used to follow up on but following some changes in legislation a couple of years back they will now contact the estates if the PWC wants the debt collecting.

Does that mean his mother can stop it by saying she no longer wants the debt collected? Will this stop the money owed to the government too?

PreludeForTimeFeelers

eskimo26 wrote: »

Does that mean his mother can stop it by saying she no longer wants the debt collected? Will this stop the money owed to the government too?

In theory yes, she can tell them not to collect anything owed to her from the NRP's estate, but she wouldn't have a say on whether the Secretary of State debts were collected or not.