Advice please, case reassessed and ive now got arrears!!

J4mesg

Sensemaya wrote: »

Difficult to say.

In your position I would try to save up a little just in case arrears are owed. In my experience account breakdowns can differ wildly due to various staff working the figures out.

It will be interesting to see if they send you an account breakdown from day one through your MP and then a separate one -not from day one- for the Appeal. If this happens study the figures carefully.

If arrears are owed you can negotiate a figure that is comfortable for you. Again it's best to liaise through your MP with this one. Arrears don't have to be paid within 2 years or in one lump sum.

My ex owes the SofS circa 14-15K because of advance payments. At one stage they weren't going to bother collecting this sum at all as they classed it as 'low priority' but I complained as well as the case officer.

His situation is nothing to do with me any more:T but I hope they are making him pay.

They called me today and i pointed out in 2004 i moved house and had increased housing costs as well as i joined the company pension at £120 per month.

So hopefully that will sort things out!

cheers J

PreludeForTimeFeelers

J4mesg wrote: »

They called me today and i pointed out in 2004 i moved house and had increased housing costs as well as i joined the company pension at £120 per month.

So hopefully that will sort things out!

cheers J

Did you notify them at the time?

J4mesg

No but the PWC didn't notify them at the time either her oldest daughter left education, so they cant backdate for that and no take into consideration my costs.

J4mesg

The called and then lettered me, my assessment has been reduced again due to my pension payments, so my arrears are wiped out.

If my ex doesn't play ball and accept this then I will go down the route of getting my increased housing costs added to the assessment and it will hit her harder in pocket.

quite happy to pay my way but wasn't happy to get hit with arrears from 2004 especially when the figures they used for the assessment were incorrect, and through no fault of my own they tried to backdate it 9 years!.

Fission

krashovrload wrote: »

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I cannot see how a change in the PWC circumstances should mean that you're liable for more maintenance - esp. if the change was that PWC went on to have another child.

The OP said that the PWCs elder child left education (or the equivalent). That would mean that certain allowances in the maintenance requirement (referred to as "maintenance needed" in notification letters) would no longer be divided by two and would be applied in the OPs case at the full rate instead of half rate.

Depending on the other circumstances of the case, that could quite easily increase the assessment by the £6 a week he mentioned.

galangm8

J4mesg wrote: »

No but the PWC didn't notify them at the time either her oldest daughter left education, so they cant backdate for that and no take into consideration my costs.

Can I ask, if both yourself and the PWC did not inform them of CofC's, how did this surface all of a sudden?

I have had 'mistakes' from 9 years ago also reviewed and then reassessed quite recently, but it certainly wasn't easy but you seem to have managed it in 10 days!

How did you manage that?

Thank you

galangm8

Fission wrote: »

The OP said that the PWCs elder child left education (or the equivalent). That would mean that certain allowances in the maintenance requirement (referred to as "maintenance needed" in notification letters) would no longer be divided by two and would be applied in the OPs case at the full rate instead of half rate.

Depending on the other circumstances of the case, that could quite easily increase the assessment by the £6 a week he mentioned.

Do you know how the 'allowances in the maintenance required' are actually divided when there are 2 NRP's in the CSA equation?

Thank you