CSA Sack them (CSA Child Support Agency)

Member Name: HitchJo

Product:	CSA Child Support Agency
Date:	15/06/09 (118 review reads)
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Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Screw up everythinhg

I am from both sides of the Child Support Agency sides. I have a son from a previouse relationship who I have never received any money for but that was my choice. The farther was an idiot he never had his name on the birth certificate and told me to have an abortion in the begining because he wasnt ready to be a farther at 26 years of age. I told him I would do it on my own with no help and have done ever since. He was sub-contract employed anyway so they wouldnt have been able to prove how much he earnt he also knew how to get away with paying due to friends of his that had been doing it for years.

A few years later I met my current partner who I have a child and one on the way with he had also got a son from a previouse relationship. Every week he was paying £31 that we were going into the local post office and paying it by their payment slips, but most weeks when we were going to collect his son we were getting a mouthful because she hadnt received her money how can that be our fault when I had the slips to prove we had paid. We tried phoning for her and csa would only shun us it is up to her to phone and that they had our payment recorded.

We decided because she had got married that we would do it as a private matter and give her the money with a book for her to sign to prove we were paying. This worked out great she got her money we had no greif from her it was lovely.

A few months after she decided £31 wasnt enough and contacted the csa who did confirm that this was an appropriate amount for one child on an earning of £223 per week we still have rent and bills also other children to take care for.

Recently my partner has been made redundant which means we can now not pay her the money. We contacted the CSA and they informed us that we would have to pay £5 per week because that is the minimum. We continued to do this privately until we received a letter from the Jobcentre explaining that they were already taking out £5 per week from his jobseekers allowance even though we had had an agreement with the csa, luckily the week that they started taking the money we hadnt paid her due to being away on holdiay so we havent over paid her. We also pay for karate lessons for him and I will always make sure he has clothes and shoes and well fed when he is here with us because I still work I would never see him go without.

2 weeks after being made redundant we received a phone call CSA "you owe us £1300". This was backdated payments that he had missed I asked for a run down of these payments and they sent me a letter through with all the information for the first 4 months my partner hadnt paid anything and I asked him why. He was out of work at the time and that he wasnt claiming jobseekers due to being self employed before. He told me the csa had told him he didnt need to pay anything.

When he contacted them he told them he was out of work and was there any way that we could pay a small amount each week. They told us no it had to be paid in full. "how are we meant to find that money" was my partners response. Little did we know they could see all the credit cards he owned and informed him that he had £2000 on a credit card not that it bothered them that this credit card was already at £4000 and that he owned another 2 over £2000 that were full not that they cared that there was another family they were making suffer for this. Best thing is she wasnt getting a penny of the money that they wanted because she wasnt working at the time it was state money and that was who had it.

It is a sin that now it is back through the csa when us or her have even asked for it to be done that way when he gets a job again this will all be changed I can assure you of that. They are the most impolite service who will ruin the peoples lives who will always pay for their child and wants to be there for them and will let the no good scum fall off the radar and they will probably be dead before they even find them.

If you can go private if you have a good farther in the childs life I would advise it. If you have an idiot like me go to work part time if you can and they will not get involved because it is seen as a private matter it is a 3rd party that you dont need.

Summary: Go private if you can