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Okay, here goes.
Child no longer qualifies for maintenance.
Received a CSA letter about arrears of £3500. I said I could pay £2000. They said fine if resident parent agreed
The resident parent didn't respond to any communications from the CSA. I haven't any contact details for her.
CSA said not much they can do especially as cases migrating the CMS Sept/Oct so advised to cease arrear payments and see if the resident parent contacts the CSA or CMS.
I've now received a CSA letter reminding me if the arrears abd it will be moving to CSA.
I've also received a letter from the CMS about the arrears saying they intend to recoup them and that I should contact them and not wait to be contacted by them.
What do I do especially as the arrears are high and the resident parent wouldn't even reply to the CSA.
Contact the CMS as they have said in the letter.
Or just ignore it and risk the consequences.
I've tried to fix this with the CSA but the resident parent hasn't bothered to reply to any contact attempts.
Is this money owed to the CSA/CMS or resident parent? I offered £2000 and had no reply at all. I begrudge paying £3500 who won't even respond to CSA letters and calls..
What are the consequences? They demand the money and I pay it back over 2 years?
Also, let's say I have to pay to the resident parent.
Direct pay will be a problem as we've had no contact for 21 years.
Doesn't the resident parent have to contact the CMS to request payment/chase up of arrears and pay £20 in order to do so or is this chase up purely from the change from CSA to CMS?
I still have the bank details the CSA gave me to pay maintenance via bank transfer so would I use those for direct pay and avoid the 20% fee the CMS have for collect and pay.
If the resident parent would just be more compliant and respond to the CSA/CMS as u have then this could have been resolved months ago.
Hi There,
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It was my understanding that a case had to be opened with CMS, CSA should have closed the case and that's why they had informed you that you still owed money,
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If neither you or your ex contact CMS to open a case I'm not sure why there is one open.
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From memory when my case switched from CSA to CMS I was written too and told that the case would be closed and that a new one would need to be opened.
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I would contact CMS and ask them for more information.
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I also didn't think that CMS and CSA were linked so I'm not sure how CMS could be saying they would carry the debt over.
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GTTS
The CSA is being closed - all cases are being transferred, to new cases of one does not exist, unless the parent owed arrears informs CSA to write them off.
The law means debt owed to CSA is transferred to CMS.
Consequences are that cms pursue money via deductions and court orders etc.
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