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Hi I have just read somewhere that if your partner is unemployed you can pay a reduced rate of CSA. My partner was unemployed April 2010 to October 2010. She did not receive any job seekers allowance ad she was told that she wasn't entitled to anything as she had received a redundancy payment. As she has worked from the age of 17 she didn't think to pursue this and left it. During that period we had to get our mortgage payments reduced until she found employment. It was an extremely miserable time for us. However she managed to get a job in October 2010. But during that time I still had to pay full CSA payments (which were a lot more than our mortgage) Financially it was [censored] during that period. My question is this. Can I approach the CSA and try to get money back for during that time as I should have been paying a reduced rate?
Thanks
Hi and welcome.
This is a new one on me.
I would say you wouldn't be able to claim a rebate in my oppinion, I have never heard of a rule that takes your partners income into account when calculations are made, the payment is based on your wage alone, if the CSA were to start giving a reduction if partners were unemployed then they would surely have to take the partners wage into account in the first place when they work out what you have to pay, also any change in curcumstances needs to be declared straight away in order for changes to take any effect, so I don't think even if this rule does apply they wouldn't look at it this far down the road.
Sorry not to be able to give better news.
GTTS
Partners incomes were only taken into account in pre 2003 cases as far as I am aware, but in any event, if the CSA weren't informed at the time of the unemployment of any change, then there is no backdating of the calculation I'm afraid.
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