CSA FINISHED!!! They have forgotten me!!

debtel007

I finished my CSA on September 3rd 2012. I carried on paying until the end despite my daughter having a child of her own (see the other thread of mine, its unreal!!). On the day I was due to finish I called up the CSA Bolton and they said I should pay the last month £428.10. I said no as it wasnt a full month and paid them £380 asking for an update if I had paid too much. Surprise surprise, I havent heard a word from them since then. It is unbeleivable to think I guessed the actual right amount. But as the case is finished I will ignore them!!

To everyone that thinks it will never come to an end IT DOES, and boy does £428.10 a month feel good!!

Happy days!

Marisco

Aye, it's a great feeling when you get the "your case is now closed" letter! Happy days indeed

DUTR

debtel007 wrote: »

I finished my CSA on September 3rd 2012. I carried on paying until the end despite my daughter having a child of her own (see the other thread of mine, its unreal!!). On the day I was due to finish I called up the CSA Bolton and they said I should pay the last month £428.10. I said no as it wasnt a full month and paid them £380 asking for an update if I had paid too much. Surprise surprise, I havent heard a word from them since then. It is unbeleivable to think I guessed the actual right amount. But as the case is finished I will ignore them!!

To everyone that thinks it will never come to an end IT DOES, and boy does £428.10 a month feel good!!

Happy days!

Well done, you will get a closing letter/statement, only puzzling thing in the post is the monthly payments, thought they were always rounded to the nearest £ ??

k-hkr

My son was supposed to be starting uni in September so I was expecting to have my case closed. He managed to not get the required grades despite assurances he was revising all the time so has to do another year at 6th form college. He is 19 in January though so I thought thats only another few months to pay.

Now, after reading another thread on here, it seems that the CMEC scheme is due to start in December so I may well get snaffled in that right at the death and have to pay until he is 20. Not only that but I will get assessed under CMEC rules and come off CS1. I have never been re-assessed so still pay the same as I did 12 years ago when I was earning about 35% of what I did last year.

So, I expect to have my payments trebled. This, after recently moving home and taking on a large mortgage, on the assumption that I would be free of payments within a couple of months of us moving!! I have crunched the numbers and I will be in the red each month for a year. Just when I thought there was light at the end of the tunnel. Their timing could not have been any better!!

his_wife

hmmm hate to burst on your parade people, but this new stupid ruling which comes in next month, may, mean that the pwc can reapply and claim till qualifying CHILD turns 20. Great stuff eh..... gutted isnt the word, i am rather hoping,,,, that it will only qualify for people remaining on the system rather than those who have finished with it.

his_wife

why did u have to pay for a child, who, has a child, i thought once they came out of the system, ie, claimed cb for another person in their own name, they ceased being a child!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no wonder the country is in such a mess

makeyourdaddyproud

his_wife wrote: »

why did u have to pay for a child, who, has a child, i thought once they came out of the system, ie, claimed cb for another person in their own name, they ceased being a child!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no wonder the country is in such a mess

Yes, I wondered that?

How is it possible that you should be paying for child that has one of her own?

oesd31

his_wife wrote: »

why did u have to pay for a child, who, has a child, i thought once they came out of the system, ie, claimed cb for another person in their own name, they ceased being a child!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no wonder the country is in such a mess

This happened to my OH it is because if they are still in education then pwc/grandparent can claim that they are responsible for both child and grandchild and therefore can claim CB and CTC for both. It is only if they claim in their own right then they cease to be a child. We did take this up with the CSA at the time and it is another way to play the system.

makeyourdaddyproud

I heard also they no longer get involved with benefit cases, if anyone can throw any light on this?

PreludeForTimeFeelers

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

I heard also they no longer get involved with benefit cases, if anyone can throw any light on this?

Well, people on benefit are no longer compelled to go to the CSA, if that's what you mean. It's been about 4 years since that changed.