My ex and csa

melx

Hi I wonder if anyone can help me?

I managed to finally get some help from the CSA to get support for my children after many years and him demanding DNA tests.

He was paying £450 a month but i have just had a letter saying that he will now be paying £54 a week, less than half the original amount.

I contacted the CSA and they told me that he has told them his circumstances have changed ie: his wages and they have just taken his word for it, no proof just him over the phone.

He works in Sales and his job is commission based. His salary is £13,000 PA.

His hours havent changed and neither has his role at work so how is it possible his wage has been cut in half. I believe that he may have had a couple of bad months coming up to Christmas and that these are the details he has given to the CSA.

I know that he wouldnt work for £13,000 a year, he thinks too much of himself to do this and his lifestyle wouldn't allow for it!!

I dont know what to do next, I work full time and this is a big drop for us a family after 16 years of no money at all.

The CSA has said for me to wait a couple of months and ring them again but can anyone suggest anything else I can do or even ask the CSA to do on my behalf?

Thanks for reading and any comments gratefully received

x

DUTR

Perhaps you have the wrong concept of what the CSA is about, they are not acting solely on your behalf (PWC) .
Requesting a DNA test is no big deal, and if you are sure the child(ren) are his then why object?
You mention sales role, which maybe salary plus commission, as you mention perhaps the extra has reduced and therefore the assesable amount has reduced to.
They ask for payslips not just take a verbal submission, from reading other posts for some reason the PWC may get to see these.
16 years is a long time and must nearing the end of qualification for CS laibility.
Seems like as they suggest you will have to wait a few months then request a re-assessment.

melx

I didnt object to DNA tests, we had them they are his. His children were fully aware of why they were at the doctors and what the tests were for, he text them and told them.

They didnt ask for payslips they told me today they just took the details over the phone.

He is a medical sales rep manager with a team of people working under him so i seriously doubt that he has taken a loss of £14,000 a year working the same hours and commuting into London.

My youngest son has possibly five years left before he goes to uni.

The money I received went solely on the children. Train and bus fares, pocket money and school trips etc.

kelloggs36

Can you appeal against the decision and ask them to request evidence?

melx

kelloggs36 wrote: »

Can you appeal against the decision and ask them to request evidence?

I'm not really sure but I really want to. I just think it is very unfair, he doesn't see the children unless I take them to his mothers house (we live 100 miles away) and only then if he is not "busy" He has even visited the town near us on numerous occasions and not bothered to see them.

He doesn't buy them birthday or Christmas presents.

It just seems odd that they have taken his phone call to the CSA at face value.

Crellow4

You will have to request a mandatory reconsideration, following this outcome you can then apply to the independent appeals system. I suspect that written evidence will be sourced as part of the reconsideration process.

melx

Crellow4 wrote: »

You will have to request a mandatory reconsideration, following this outcome you can then apply to the independent appeals system. I suspect that written evidence will be sourced as part of the reconsideration process.

Thank you I will look in to it and call them back after the weekend x

CSAworkerx

Verbal evidence is now taken as fact, Alltho that is usually in a new case, personally i would have demanded wage slips to show a loss in income, and you yourself admit you think he had a few bad months up to xmas, if this was the case then the assessment is reflective, Can you appeal? Yes, but youll be asked for proof, which you wont be able to provide, it is at a sole discretion of the caseworker to ask for slips, and to be fair, they will only ask for the ones he gave as verbal evidence, meaning if he did have a fw bad months upto xmas, and proves it, the assessment will stand.

Thats if they ask for the slips, there is a massive push for verbal evidence atm, They very well might not, Man recon is diffrent, i "think" they have to ask for psyical proof of income in an assessment which is contested, but dont quote me on that, if prelude reads this he/she might have the definite answers.

makemem1

Thank you I will look in to it and call them back after the weekend x

Platy123

Kellogs36 could you please clear your inbox so i could pm you?