CSA, how much more can we take?
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Yes another gripe to add to the ever continuing list of CSA gripes.

I left my wife in 2003 but before I did I made sure they were well catered for.  Well that was a bad move on my part.  I paid my ex £16,000 lump sum for Child Maintenance so we could get on with our lives and not involve the CSA ,and then a further £1,880 total of £17,880 all of which could be proved if required at a future date.

The CSA contacted me in September 2004 looked at my income and said I need to pay £73 a week for my two Children.  I stated that I had an arrangement with my ex wife, which they checked, came back to me and told me to carry on as we were.  All was well and I thought to myself, I'm covered for the next 5 years and have bought my children's clothes, shoes, and all that they need but most of all love and happiness.

How much in arrears?  £14,000 they reckon!

But oh no, not quite as sorted as it seems because it's August 2008 and time for and AOE (attachment of earnings) order on my wages.  Well naturally I contacted the CSA to find out what was going on and they said "you have not paid your ex wife any maintenance for 3 years and 10 months, so you now owe over £14,000".

CSA, how much more can we take?

I explained the arrangement and the lump sum to them and involved a solicitor to with proof of payments etc., but all they said was that the payments do not count as "your ex wife applied for Income Support in September 2004 and your payments were just before that date."  At least they admitted they were to blame for not getting in touch earlier as my file was cast to one side and not correctly looked into until now.

So thanks to the ever wonderful and competent CSA I'm now paying £634 a month £14,400 in arrears, my life has been turned upside down and don't know which way to turn.  The CSA seem to me to be there to ruin family life and extract money from fathers no regard for feelings or circumstances.  Life is now a living nightmare and I feel like a convicted fool.  I just wish someone would shut the CSA down once and for all.

By: Poor Ash!


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can anyone advise me?
My ex is now pregnant and people are telling me to go TO the csa as its safer than just giving her money.
Is she entitled to any assets and inheritance money that I have or just my wages as unfortunaly she has a little gold digging in her?

thanks guys
*ukghost  18-Aug-2010 23:17

 
The CSA are nothing but a bunch of wheelclampers, using the law to extort money from, people who have all ready paid into the system once via taxes and who are being targetted again.
*Bled dry  17-Aug-2010 11:51

 
Andy. I have done exactly that. Everything in writing, but all that I get back now is "we have looked into your case and have no further comment to make". I have written to Duncan-Smith and am waiting to here from him. I want all of my money back with interest and compensation and damages. CSA is a company made up by politicians. I am waiting for the day that there is a successful case through the Supreme court and then the flood gates will open. I am not giving up until this shambles is shut down. Phillip Davies M.P. has called for the abolition of the CSA just recently. When this shambles crumbles I will be campaigning to have Parliament bulldozed, as M.P.'s are not representing the will of the people as they are supposed to do!
*Rippedoffdad  11-Aug-2010 11:17

 
We all know the csa are a terribly managed goverment agency. I too have had 10 years of very offensive treatment at the hands of the agency. It very nearly caused me to have a nervous breakdown, trying to keep all the plates spinning. Then one day, I thought enough. I reassessed my own finances, submitted it all and now I just let the csa wash over me. I remind myself that it will one day end and as for my twisted ex, well what goes around (I hope) will come around. My biggest recommendation to anybody dealing with this lot, is to only have contact in WRITING. Do not talk over the phone. It will drive you mad and you will get nowhere.
*Andy  10-Aug-2010 17:33

 
The csa are very good! At picking on the vulnerable and the ones who have all ready paid. Finding the ones who have never paid is too hardfor them! They should be shut down now! I understand what it costs to bring a child up......because I have brought one up on my own!
*Rippedoffdad  09-Jul-2010 16:37

 
I think the csa are very good ................ maybe not in your case but my ex husband hasnt payed a thing in two years ....but now csa have found him and he now only has to start paying for now ...and its not alot . fathers dont understand how much it costs to bring children up .
*bumble bee  06-Jul-2010 12:54

 
The CSA took my career in 2003 with an attachment of earnings that was so badly assessed I was £40 a week better off on the dole. I was borrowing money for the right to go to work. Recently they contacted me to try and collect again on the basis of their malassessment. I am so incensed I have started collecting names for a Class Action Law Suit concerning inappropriate CSA 'attachment of earnings'. Please join me at www.classactionhero.co.uk
*Simon  05-Jul-2010 11:18

 
Corrupt politicians interfering between parents and children for money. Clean politics? What a Joke! There should be a few more in court, including Brown and the Labour cabinet Ministers, Try Misconduct in public office, bankrupting the country!
*Rippedoffdad  11-Jun-2010 18:04

 
Well I am a mother and I do not get CSA payments from my ex because I believe he looks after them and spends enough money on them and I am not a greedy money grabbin bi@tch. On the other hand my partner now has a bi@tch for an ex as we were paying her every month as agreed and just when we had a short weekend away she was like "how did you afford that" well couple of days later BAM CSA on the phone. They have changed the amount we need to pay 4 times now in the space of a month and we have had no letter. Its no wonder some fathers are ready to quit their jobs !! Rant Over .
*Chelle  10-Jun-2010 12:43

 
Nayab Khan

"A damning indictment of modern women is that prostitutes are more honest than "decent" women."

Well, I suppose you would know - how much do you normally pay?
*Fatima  09-Jun-2010 21:06

 
I would totally applaud anybody that executed all CSA staff an burned the buildings to the ground. This is (as mentioned below) nothing more that a legalised extortion racket. Nobody polices how much money is paid out to the PWCs and subsequently nobody polices how much the PWC spends on the children. So while you are at it, execute gold-diggers too.

A damning indictment of modern women is that prostitutes are more honest than "decent" women. Shame on all all those materialistic women out there. I wish you all MUCH pain and suffering.
*Nayab Khan (Yes. My real name)  09-Jun-2010 20:57

 
totally agree mate , they dont care what you got to pay out!! they will leave you on the streets just so they get there money, dont care what you need to live on, they are scum, and as for you women out there lets be frank life doesnt revolve around money!, most of you moan he doesnt give me money, its the childs welfare that matters not how much money you can make off of him, you should be ashamed gold diggers
*jay  07-Jun-2010 13:21


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