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I am an 'Absent Parent' in the eyes of the Child Support Agency. I guess this is true when I live in Cambridgeshire and she lives in Tyneside. My ex and I split when I was still serving in the Army and wasnt prepared to leave before I had served my full 22 years. The ex remarried 6 days after the decree absolute was finalised overnight I became 'Old Dad', he became 'Big Dad'.
I have to say he's a nice bloke, it just his wife who I can't stand. I have been dealing with the CSA since then, paying what they ask regardless of whether I think it is the correct amount, easy life is better than fighting them and running up masses of arrears.
I now no longer serve my country and am no longer earning the same income. The CSA paid me a visit asking why I hadn't paid for 3 months, I said "How can I pay when I'm not working?" It wouldn't appear to matter to them. She took away my last 3 payslips and the latest copy of my mortgage statement. Meanwhile I crossed my fingers and hoped that I would still be able to afford the nice house my new wife and I had bought three years previously.
Somebody within the CSA couldnt read...
Unfortunately, somebody within the CSA couldnt read and typed the wrong address into their system. I heard nothing until a bailiff popped a demand through my door 12 months later asking for over £4,000. I had been taken to court without my knowledge and found liable for that amount.
Twelve months further on, I am still fighting what is their mistake, not mine. I have eventually cleared the amount owing to the bailiffs but now face arrears for the 12 months during which this dispute has taken place. One step forward, feels like 20 or more backward! Yet again the Child Support Agency make a mistake but somebody else has to pay for it.
When will the Government finally put the useless thing out of its misery? Probably never, they couldnt afford the redundancy package for all the staff no doubt! Hopefully the CSA complaints team will look into this. I finally spoke to someone in the Agency who was helpful and explained the correct steps to take.
I wait with baited breath for the outcome, although deep down I'm so sceptical about the whole thing that I probably get stung for even more cash than I am already lumbered with. Here's hoping.
By: Fostered Gaz
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North Carolina keeps finding another way to keep adding more to the support
Than I owe, my son and I keep in touch a couple times a week every week
He lives in Rocky Mount NC I live in Idaho Falls Id. He has brought his family and my two grand kids
to Idaho several times and I have gone to NC several times to visit also, point I am getting at is we get along very well he is a good kid , at this time he his 26 years of age, Belinda Harper Justin’s mother abandoned
the boys at the age of 6 years old, due to a bad drug problem, so they went to there Grand Mothers to live
and after talking to Belinda the mother she has told me the boys Never went to a foster home
I have paid my child support off 3 times now, now North Carolina is saying that I owe 1790, more
Because the kids were put into a foster home, there was no foster home they went to there Grand
Mothers home to live, then to an aunt’s home to live.
There was never anything said to me about this until now that they were in a foster home
And after talking to my son he has made it clear that they were never in a foster home
Is there anything I can do to put a stop to any of this?
Diale Davis
http://child-support-agency-cmec.blogspot.co.uk/
Here is some information which is quite helpful as the CSA/CMEC staff will not tell you and funnily enough they have taken it down from their site - I wonder why?????
The flat rate of child maintenance is £5 a week - no matter how many children are involved.
The non-resident parent pays a flat rate for child maintenance if:
their net weekly income is between £5 and £100, or
they or their partner who they live with gets Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, income based Employment and Support Allowance or Pension Credit, or
they are getting one of the following benefits:
contribution-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
State Retirement Pension
Incapacity Benefit
Carer's Allowance
Widowed Mother’s Allowance, Widowed Parent's Allowance, Widow's Pension
Severe Disablement Allowance
Industrial Injuries Benefit
Maternity Allowance
a training allowance approved by the Department for Work and Pensions
Armed Forces Compensation Scheme payments
a War Disablement or War Widow’s Pension For our ex servicemen!
Bereavement Allowance
a social security benefit paid by a country.
I am a resident parent who thanks to the csa`s fantastic regulations have to pay them as well as supporting my kids living with me at the same time ....... why because dispite providing the csa with all the evidence they have asked for my ex denies i have my kids 4 nights per week therefor i am not telling the truth, but to quote the csa " we are here to collect on behalf of the non resident parent and not to carry out an investigation into fraud"
I had a letter from the CSA saying that they were going to attach an order on my earnings to the tune of £300 a month. It's a lot but I don't mind paying for my daughter. Then coming up to Christmas I did a load of overtime so I could give my son the best Christmas ever. Strait after Christmas I did even more overtime so I could save for us to go on holiday for my boys birthday in May.
Now for the second month running they have taken £422 out of my earnings, leaving me just £830. That means they have taken their 300 plus all my overtime! My rent alone is £600. After Council Tax and bills we will again be living off the child benefit for the month. No holiday for us. I dread something happening to the car because how could I afford to fix it. No car, no job (I live out in the sticks) and to top it all, my daughters Auntie is complaining because she hasn't received ANY money from the CSA yet. I spoke with CSA and they said she will get £150 this week. So where is the rest of the money going??? Am I paying for other children with absent fathers that don't pay?
I don't know how we will survive. I have worked out that with petrol costs and deductions of earnings, I would be £160 a month better off on benefits. How is this country ever going to get better? I'm one of the lucky ones to have a job...or so I thought. I get £5 a week from my son's drug addict mother who is and always will be on benefits. Compare that to the £422 I am paying every month.... Can you believe, when I said this to the CSA they told me to stop doing overtime!!! I just don't know what to do. Can anyone help?
sharribell