Just found out ex has had a pay rise! Please help!

moomoomama27

As title.

I have an ongoing claim with csa for my son. His father left us 8 years ago.

I've just been told by his brother he had a sizeable pay rise approx 6 years ago! I have no contact with him, so had no reason to think he was earning more.

I called csa to ask for a reassessment, but they told me that he's only liable to start playing a higher amount now!! They cannot back date from his pay rise, as he only gets reviewed when someone asks for it, and he us under no obligation to report it! is this correct, when they can access payslips through HRMC?

Can someone advise please thank you!

shoe*diva79

Its correct, the reassessment will be done from when you asked for it. They wont backdate it. You could have asked for a reassessment at anytime, majority of people would have some kind of payrise over a 6 year period.

Lesson learnt - diarise for this time next year to ask for another one!

moomoomama27

I didn;t know that I presumed they just did an annual review anyway!

I cannot believe it's right that he had a 6k payrise for several years and he is not reposnsible for backpay!

shoe*diva79

moomoomama27 wrote: »

I didn;t know that I presumed they just did an annual review anyway!

I cannot believe it's right that he had a 6k payrise for several years and he is not reposnsible for backpay!

No annual review on old schemes. Look at it this way, you/your child havent missed out on that much cash. 15% of £6k is £900 but the assessment would be lower than that because its done on net pay so he would have paid tax, NI, Pension and possibly other stuff like salary sacrifice for sharesave etc.

Even if £900 was the assessment figure for the past 6 years, that works out as just £2.88 a week so I would just suck it up as annoying but you know going forward to ask for an assessment each year.