CSA backdated question

gems3435

Hi, i'm very puzzled at the minute me and my partner split up a few years ago (we are still on good terms) and my ex received a letter (about 2009 i think) saying that the CSA are doing an assessment and they will get back to him and it was about 3 or 4 days later that they got back to him saying that he has has to pay nil (but he wanted to help and contribute what he could) and that was it nothing else from them....NOW....

Recently he received a letter about 3 weeks ago saying that he now has to pay £7.20 a week child maintenance and it will be automatically taken from his benefit under some new rules or something that has been brought out (neither of us understand it really).

So a bit of the story now what i am really wanting to know is what's the chances of CSA coming back and backdating payments even tho in the original letter the assessment was nil? Is there even a claim to backdate?.

kevin137

Do you want the money from him...??? You don't give much information, so some assumptions have to be made...

You have the children...??? Either you opened a case or you where on benefits so the government opened a case for you... And you have never closed the case or had any further interaction from them...

If that is the case and you do not want anything collected, then simply phone them up and ask them to close the case. There are different rules now to when the case was dated 2009, then if you claimed benefit, the government opened one automatically, now they don't... So you can close the case and forget about it if you want, and if there are any arrears you could also ask this is NOT collected on your behalf, the only money they would collect if it is owed, is until the change in rules and the money may be owed to the SoS, if this is nil, then it is all irrelevant...

gems3435

Of course i want the money but as i said even tho the letter (in 2009) said nil he still wanted to pay and he did. So basically i'm not losing as he didn't want to neglect helping but now it's been dictated by the CSA what he pays.

After the letter nothing else was done with regards the CSA it was just left and i guess we just assumed the case was done, even more after not hearing from then again.

I know he rung the CSA recently and was told something like that case (2009) was on the old system and they are now looking back at old cases (which suggests it wasn't closed?) that's why he has just heard from them and has to pay.

As for the backdated i was just curious if the CSA could come back saying he owed backdated payments from that 2009 letter.

kevin137

They could well do, but that is not to say the money would be owed to you if you where on benefits...

If it is an amicable relationship now, and he would pay anyway, then do you really need the CSA to collect for you? As for being an old case, old as in how long, if it was opened in 2009, then it is CSA2 so not old rules...

galangm8

gems3435 wrote: »

Hi, i'm very puzzled at the minute me and my partner split up a few years ago (we are still on good terms) and my ex received a letter (about 2009 i think) saying that the CSA are doing an assessment and they will get back to him and it was about 3 or 4 days later that they got back to him saying that he has has to pay nil (but he wanted to help and contribute what he could) and that was it nothing else from them....NOW....

Recently he received a letter about 3 weeks ago saying that he now has to pay £7.20 a week child maintenance and it will be automatically taken from his benefit under some new rules or something that has been brought out (neither of us understand it really).

So a bit of the story now what i am really wanting to know is what's the chances of CSA coming back and backdating payments even tho in the original letter the assessment was nil? Is there even a claim to backdate?.

Yes the CSA can reassess and backdate, especially when they have made a mistake.

Why did he get a nil assessment?

£7.20 is the minimum payment they deduct from a 'benefit' on old rules.

When you say he still wanted to contribute and help (even though he was on a nil assessment) and he did, you say, how did he do that?

Did NRP tell the CSA to collect or did he pay you direct?