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My gripe is another CSA related one I'm afraid. My sister has been split from her ex husband for a number of years and he has always been pretty elusive in making child support payments... for example stopping whenever he felt like it. Back last year he stopped paying child support for good following an argument with his daughter. My sister decided to approach the CSA for help.
He has told the CSA he earns £100 a week and they seem to have taken him at his word!
This guy has a limited company (he's a salesman) and is known to have a decent income, in fact he has often boasted about this to his kids and it's also obvious by his lifestyle. He has told the CSA he earns £100 a week and they seem to have taken him at his word! Given the turnover of his company is under 3 million, he only has to submit basic accounts to Companies House which don't detail his income. In actual fact we know he is earning between 35k and 60k per annum.
In my view the CSA should be asking for a copy of his latest accounts, along with his books showing the current period (given that accounts are historic), they should also get hold of his company bank statements etc.
I'd appreciate some advice please. Can anyone suggest what approach my sister can take to get the CSA to actually confirm his income in this case? I'm sure this must apply to many other lone parents out there and seems an easy way to evade payment. In effect he is trying to stall his child support payments until his youngest is 16. I would also like to know if he can be chased retrospectively for payments if we can prove he has lied about his income.
Is the only way to involve a solicitor and then is there a legal right for the wife to get hold of his company accounts? I could go on as this man is devoid of any responsibility for his own kids. Even when he did pay limited and sporadic child support he told my sister he was paying her to bring up the kids!!! Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
By: Kevin
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in short - if he is an employee or on a pay roll - he must pay income tax and NI. it follows the CSA who are after all a part of the DWP would be able to check his tax and NI contributions and by simple maths calculate his gross annual income.
the CSA is a complete and utter joke in my opinion. as you have discovered. they are quite incapable of any robust or thought out decisions and do no more than cause upset and distress.
may I wish you all the very best and do keep on at them.
my advise - do everything in writing - that way they cant go back on what they have said / agreed
kind regards
Boned...
No - the claim has to come from the child's mother and no one else I am afraid.
As far as the CSA would be concerned - there is a private agreement.
Crazy I know
And I pay for everything
Can I claim from h ?
I am a NRP and have been for 14 years. I have always paid maintenance and have always paid for extra items (school uniforms, clothes etc), regardless of my own situation. I've had to take in lodgers to keep my house, work extra jobs etc etc. I've had solicitor costs just to enable me to see my child every other weekend. I have to pay for petrol to go and see him, and I still have to feed him when he stays.
Throughout that time, his mum opted to work part time hours because "your money and the tax benefits mean I don't have to work full time". She has got re-married, had additional children, and lives in a smart house.
I got made redundant 2 years ago, and couldn't afford the same maintenance payments. I started my own business, and this year I used the CSA online calculator using my tax assessment form which included salary and dividends. I adjusted my payment accordingly, and she hit the roof. She opted to go to the CSA to see "what else she could get".
I sent all the details to the CSA and they've advised that they will not take my dividend payments into account. I argued the toss with them, as their assessment was less than half the amount id already agreed to pay her, but they wouldn't even collect the higher amount as it was not correct.
So she now gets less than half the amount, so I pay the difference into a separate account for him in case there's anything he needs. If not, he gets to have it when he's 18.
Just bear in mind that a lot of NRP's have their own house to keep, bills to pay and children to feed. The majority will work their back ends off to help support their children. They shouldn't be made to feel like scum when they hit hard times. I find it amusing that her stunt backfired, and my son said that it served her right and perhaps she could go to work if she wanted to do more for him too. He also asked if the surplus could go towards an xbox.. that's my boy.
I am a parent (father) and I have paid my CSA on time every month since the case was opened.
I have always sent my salary slips to the CSA if they ask and / or if I had a pay increase so that I was paying the correct amount
I see my children every 2 weeks - would d0 more but they live 70 miles away - and I go for them on the Friday and take them home on the Sunday - so I do almost 300 miles every 2 weeks.
I feed and cloth them and buy birthday and Christmas presents as well as take them on holiday and ask for no money from their mum
the weekends I don't see them I am working
the csa have just decided to back date their calculations to march 2012 - 1 and a half years ago and now want arrears of over £1000 and a monthly increase on almost £100 despite my constant communication with them re my income.
I already have £200 more going out than coming in
I totally agree with the concept of the csa
but they have never and cannot confirm what the funds I send are being used for
by the way - their mum takes delivery of here 63 reg car this week (my car is 10 years old)
good old csa - getting it wrong consistently for almost 20 years
There are exceptions to this if a parent is such a negative role model
grumpyoldwoman