Csa 2 to Csa 1?

Mr.Whitey

Any advice on the above question would be appreciated!

My payslips (until recently), showed DEO deductions against 'CSA 2', my latest payslips show deductions against 'CSA 1, with a £30 a week increase in payments:eek:

I thought that it was intended progression of cases from csa1 to csa2, and then eventually, onto csa3?

Can cases be regressed (as it were), from csa2 to csa1?


Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

skibadee

The best advice I can give is to ring them asap, when was the asessment first set up?

Mr.Whitey

skibadee wrote: »

The best advice I can give is to ring them asap, when was the asessment first set up?

The original assessment was set up in 2003, it has always been a csa 2 case, however, (and this may have nothing to do with it), I did have a previous case on csa 1.

From 2003 the csa did not leave me enough money to live on, and took every single penny of overtime that I tried to earn to compensate, there was no limit on how much they took...after going to my MP, I received a letter from the csa saying that due to "delays in the system" the original csa 1 case had not been transferred to csa 2, but now had been (presumably thanks to my MP).

At that point my payments dropped to a more stable amount, (roughly £78 a week for three children).

Eighteen months ago I received a letter from the csa stating that since my eldest child (the one from the csa 1 case) had reached the age of 18 (actually she had reached 21) the case was now closed and that I would be reassessed, I must admit that I expected a small drop in payments, but six months later my payments went up by £12 a week, to £89, and this is when, as my partner noticed yesterday, the payments on my payslips changed to being accounted to 'csa 1' instead of the previous 'csa 2'.

Today they have gone up to £106 a week, yet in the past 6 years my take home pay has gone up by roughly £12 a week... I might be wrong on this, but even if the csa took the maximum 40% of a pay rise, I would have had to have had a £70 a week rise to justify this?

Thanks for your reply, I really just wanted to know if it was within the csa's powers to transfer csa 2 cases back onto the old csa 1 rules, I will be contacting the csa, (and almost certainly my MP) as soon as I've collated the necessary paperwork this weekend.

Thanks!

skibadee

I must admit I've never heard of a CSA2 case going back to CSA1, especially as the CSA1 has now been closed!

It is, on CSA1 30% maximum if no arrears and 40% maximum if arrears I believe?

Mr.Whitey

skibadee wrote: »

I must admit I've never heard of a CSA2 case going back to CSA1, especially as the CSA1 has now been closed!

It is, on CSA1 30% maximum if no arrears and 40% maximum if arrears I believe?

I was talking to a friend who unfortunately has 21 years of experience with the csa today...

He suggested to me that maybe the csa have "found more arrears" on the closed csa 1 case (even though I have a letter from them stating that the case was closed and that there were no arrears on it), and that is why my payslips now show 'csa 1' again.

He had a similar thing happen to him...

In his situation, the outcome was that the csa accepted that they were wrong, and wrote of the arrears, but then (amazingly) found the same "arrears" on his live case.

I'm half expecting the same now.

skibadee

Nothing would surprise me with the CSA to be honest.....we had 15yrs of '' experience '' with them, though to be honest I did find some employees to be more helpful than others, CSA1 is a nightmare thats what we were on.....and some employees contradict what another has said !!

PreludeForTimeFeelers

One thing to bear in mind is that a DEO is a deduction made by your employer - they're the ones who give that deduction a reference on your payslip, not the CSA, so it may just be that they've changed the code they're giving it. Speak to your payroll, or contact the CSA.