CSA help

13Kent

Fission wrote: »

That was impossible under CSA1. The assessment of partner income could reduce liability or leave it unchanged. It could not increase liability. Absolutely not.


Well, the fact remains that in our case once the CSA had details of my income my husband's payments increased by £200 a month. It seems a bit of a coincidence that the increase occurred after the CSA got access to my details.

MataNui

So what 'Steps' would they be Fission? There has never been any legal requirement to disclose a partners details to the CSA despite them claiming it was required. The absolute worst thing they could do is assume a 50% share of bills. They cant force disclosure, they cant do an 'interim' assessment. They can only do a proper assessment based on the information supplied (which is all that is legally required). CSA were and still are a bunch of lying !!!!!!s.

Despite your insistence that disclosing this information could only be to a NRPs advantage (suspiciously quoting the CSA party line, not an employee are you) the absolute mass of evidence available on numerous web forums would suggest otherwise.

justontime

Fission wrote: »

That was impossible under CSA1. The assessment of partner income could reduce liability or leave it unchanged. It could not increase liability. Absolutely not.

It could and did significantly increase the actual amount payable because if the partner was assessed as capable of paying 50% or more of household costs it left the NRP with more assessable income.

It was crippling in our case because I'd previously been widowed so my children had no other support and the system did not treat them fairly. Everything they may have been entitled to was assessed on our full household income with no regard to the amount going out in child support, so we really struggled. It was the fault of the system not my step children, they are wonderful and of course they should be supported, but it was tough.