Old cases csa1 moving to gross income allowance

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gigoo wrote: »

Can I just ask, if they don't backdate payments then how do people end up with arrears? I it when the case is ongoin and an assessment is made? Rather than if you lose your job and then get another reassessment based on your new situation?

How do arrears occur? We have never missed a payment but we aren't assessed every year.

In my experience, 99% of arrears happen like this;
PWC phones up and asks for a new assessment. This request sets what is known as the effective date of the new assessment, which means the date that the new assessment kicks in.
CSA try to contact NRP to ask for up-to-date wage information. Several weeks pass, if not longer. Eventually the CSA contact the employer to get the wage information direct. This could take another few weeks.
Once the wage information has been collected (which could be anywhere within a week to a few months), a new assessment is carried out, and it aligns with the date the PWC asked for the new assessment. Say this calculation has increased from £30 per week to £50 per week, the extra £20 per week would then be due for that elapsed time period (which may be a few months).
I think it's a bit easier on CS2, as the NRP knows they should always be paying approx 15% of take-home pay (not including other factors) - they've not really got an excuse for not knowing how much they should be paying. It's different on old rules, as the calculations were something of a dark art to work out.

gigoo

Thanks that's really clear information.

Are there any circumstanstances where csa do backdate?