CSA for 5 kids

mollycat29

i kicked my ex husband out in August 2003 and by the november he did a disappearing act. the CSA told me that they were looking for him, and finally last August , after 3 years, i suddenly start getting £5 per week from the CSA.

We have 5 kids together and he gets away with paying £1 per week for each one of his kids! how is this right?? and i was told that he didnt have to pay any arrears for the past 3 years cause they didnt know where he was????

Can this be right?? it doesnt sound right to me. what do you think??

Tanya x

Mr_Green_Genes

It's probably best not to start a post in the way you did, you might not necessarily attract the kind of posts you're maybe hoping for.

The way it works is that an assessment will start from the point when the CSA send out the MEF (the paperwork asking for the NRP's details) so it could indeed be correct that he's not liable for any arrears. As for the amount, if he's on benefit, £5 covers it.

j-baby-scotland

Agree with the above, though not about how to start a post... that's up to each of us ourselves,... but for that amount it would appear your ex is in receipt of benefits.

daveboy

First of all I wish to declare that I started a thread on the CSA recently.

Still won't stop me saying that this sort of issue should be considered before you have children, and not after when there's no money around.

It is the reason I won't have children. Whilst there are guys out there who won't pay, there are women also who just want to take the guy to the cleaners.

dmg24

daveboy wrote: »

First of all I wish to declare that I started a thread on the CSA recently.

Still won't stop me saying that this sort of issue should be considered before you have children, and not after when there's no money around.

It is the reason I won't have children. Whilst there are guys out there who won't pay, there are women also who just want to take the guy to the cleaners.

Really unconstructive comment.

I don't for a minute think that the OP is trying to 'take the guy to the cleaners'. She hasn't stated that she wants thousands off him, just possibly more than £5 a week!

emmaroids

whats wrong with the first post??
and 1 pound a week per kid is laughable, take him to court, make him pay tbh.

Mr_Green_Genes

emmaroids wrote: »

whats wrong with the first post??
and 1 pound a week per kid is laughable, take him to court, make him pay tbh.

It was the kicking him out bit I was referring too, is all.

As for the £5, if he's on benefits, that's what the law sets out is the right amount for him to pay. You can't get a court to increase it because they've got no jurisdiction where the CSA are involved.

mollycat29

I feel i have to explain myself a little bit. I do understand the view of the absent parent in regard to the CSA, as my partner is going through it at the moment for his son and is expected to pay £120 a week out of £200 wages, and the CSA are not listening.

I kicked my ex husband out because he was sleeping around and was bringing drugs into the house, and i didnt want that near my kids, he was also abusive, so my only option was to ask him to leave.

He kicked up a stink saying i was stopping him seeing the kids, but it was he who arranged to come and see them and didnt turn up leaving me to tell the kids, and found out later he was enjoying himself too much in the pub.

As far as the maintenance money is concerned, he made a prior arrangement with me to pay £50 a week towards the kids. then disappeared leaving me and the kids low on money until i proved to the CSA that he was no longer giving me any money and had gone off. As the CSA took £20 off my income support because he was supposed to begiving me £50.

So my view of the CSA is not a good one im afraid, they punish the single parent by leaving them short of money when things go wrong and let the absent parent (absent by choice) get away with years of not paying anything towards their children, we were married for 10 years, and it was his choice to have 5 children too.

I'm not being abusive to or about anyone, i am just mad that their father has gotten away with not paying anything for 3 years and is now only paying £5 a week. it just isnt right, and i was only seeking other peoples opinion of the situation.

Tanya x

aMeLia'S~MuMMY

Sorry to go off the point here but .............

How come the CSA are taking £120 out of your partners wages of £200, there is something amiss here, if he owes regular maintenance and arrears the maximum they should take is 40% net income, £120 is 60%. You need to get this situation looked at, I can see your frustration ~ what are they not listening to?

:A

kelloggs36

Yes, Amelia's-mummy is right - it rang alarm bells with me that he is paying such a high amount of money. Even under the old rules, the maximum he could pay is 30% plus arrears (but even then no more than 40%), and under the new rules it is 25% if he has 3 or more children- plus a bit for arrears. Either he needs to have a new assessment done, or he hasn't told you what he is really earning!!

As for previous comments - the fiver flat rate applies to those NRPs who are on benefits and can't be challenged unless you can prove he is working and claiming and they close his benefit claim. If he is on benefits there is nothing you can do. If you have evidence that he is doing something else, then you need to report the facts so that Criminal Compliance can investigate - they can ask banks for details of transactions in accounts and so can tell if there is other money going in which he would have to justify.

I agree that the CSA seem to let the PWCs all down by siding too much with the NRP even when faced with the facts of non compliance, they still keep giving chance after chance after chance, whilst all the while the children are having to go without. If the Government were made to pay all cases after an assessment was made, so that the children were protected, I am sure they would make more effort to recover the money from the NRP!!!

MJMum

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