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Last year I was contacted by the CSA to make payments towards my 2 children I have. I was already paying their Mum directly but she didn't feel that it was enough. The CSA rang and said she had been in touch and that I had to pay, they came up with a figure but then said but if you can come to an arrangement with your ex then that's fine, we re negotiated and came to an agreement and as far as I was made aware I would never hear from the CSA again and they in fact sent a letter saying that if I continued to pay her I would never ear from them again.
I lost my Job but that was ok because when we came to an arrangement we'd already put this into the equation and we had 2 figures, one for if i was earning and one for if I was not so I started paying the unemployed ammount which was fine for a couple of months but now I have started a business to get myself off the dole but this business is not paying me a wage just yet as we are only a couple of months in and it is just covering rent and bills right now but low and behold she started demanding more money which I did not have to give, I am actually £30 worse off than when I was on the dole but she does not seem to understand this.
The CSA have now got back in touch and are demanding I pay what they say or they are going to take action, I don't agree that I have a case with them as we never agreed to anything or followed through with them last year but they are saying yes we have, I want to go over to the new system but they're saying I can not yet, so my question is this, at what point is there a case? And do they have to get you to sign some form of agreement with them to make you part of a case once they have been in contact? Cheers
Hi Grin, you had a case with them as soon as your ex first contacted them, even though you agreed to pay private, she didn't close the case.
I would tell the CSA that you are now self employed and have no wage, they normally get in touch every 3 months and want details of your accounts
You won't be able to move over to the new system yet unless you have a link (you have another child with someone else and she puts a CSA claim in)
No they don't have to get you to sign anything either
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