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Hi,
Don't know if anyone else has same issues but I had 1 night stand with a woman years ago but she was living with someone else. 2 years later I met my partner, it was after our 2nd child was born I received a letter from CSA saying this other woman had stated I was the father to her child. I sent forms back saying I wanted a DNA test but CSA started taking payments anyway. I then went to my doctors where CSA had sent the DNA kit & had my test done but never received any results from anyone so I assumed she hadn't bothered taking the child but throughout all this CSA where taking money straight from my ESA entitlement. After about 2/3 yrs I received a letter from CSA saying I was never eligible for this child and payments stopped but have had no explanation & no refund.
How is this right??? How can they take money on the word of someone saying your the father without a scrap of evidence to say you are??? Should I be receiving a refund for the money they took????
Thank you.
Regards
Og73
Unfortunately Og73, CMS are likely to say that they were "acting on information they believed to be correct at the time" - or similar. I paid for my youngest for a year almost, and when DNA testing confirmed she was not mine, I just had to swallow the loss of £950 as well as the loss of a child...
You can argue it with them, but i wouldn't expect too much I'm afraid.
BD
How unfair is that???? Think they need to sort it out. Going by their rulings then any woman can give them any random blokes name & they just take money from them regardless. They disgust me, it caused chaos in my home & clearly this woman knew I wasn't the father else she would of took him for a DNA test.
I have contacted CSA a couple of times, a year on I'm still waiting for them to get back to me. haha I wish they'd took this time before taking maintenance for a child that was nothing to do with me.
Thanks for replying though, I was wondering if anyone had the same issues.
Og73
I'd go and see your MP and ask him to raise a complaint - it's bad enough that they take the money in the first place, but they are only following the rules, However, they shouldn't take so long to clear it up, and if you aren't liable, then you want a refund for the cost of the DNA test, as well as trying to get back any money you have paid since the DNA test.
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