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Hi All,
Any help would be great as i just don't know what to do next.
This might not be easy to follow but i will try my best.
Split up with X Wife (3 children) many years ago (about 7) ever since then i have paid CSA , (still see kids often and we all get on great even with the x wife)
When we split up it was not long before i met someone else and now i have 2 children with this person (yes didn't want any-more kids but me being softly i stuck by). So i was supporting 5 children- 3 to the x wife and 2 younger children.
Now here is where it gets tricky, I spit with the mother of the 2 youngest children but we sorted Financial Support out between ourselves due to the fact CSA and the Gov was wanting parents to do this. The payments to the 3 oldest children did not change and with the little 2 i was now supporting 5 still but none living with me. (for around 2 years i was single)
To make things even more confusing i am now with someone else who has two children of her own (i cannot have anymore. good job a lol) So now i am supporting these 2 children as well, now that is 7 kids in total i am now supporting. (now the time to take [censored])
Anyway moving to the CSA, we got in contact with them due to change and my current partner has not has any support from the children's father since they were 6 months old.
CSA has said that my payments do not change do to the fact i am still supporting 2 children, (ok easy everything is the same) but they say i owe around 4,000 in back payments to the 3 oldest kids mother for the time i was single as payments should have gone up because i was not supporting the 2 little ones as i moved out and was single, this i have explained that even though i had moved out i was still supporting the 2 little children (and the 3 oldest) but not through CSA but direct to their mother by standing order every month.
There reply was because payment to the 2 little children was not through CSA they don't take that into account but it was them and the Gov that wanted parents to sort things out between themselves and now they say i owe £4,000.
There is no way i can afford this and rather pack in my job as it would just cripple me.
Where do i go from here??????????
hope anyone can follow that!
Yep, I can just about follow that.
The CSA are technically correct I think. However, are they aware that you are now supporting 2 children you do live with? It doesn't matter that they aren't your own. Otherwise I think it's a matter of trying to come to an arrangement with the CSA - it's best to keep in touch with them and try to work with them (however difficult) rather than fight against them.
Cheers for reply actd, yes there are aware i am supporting the 2 children i am with but they will not take into account the 2 younger ones i am aslo paying for and have been for the 2-3 years because its does not go through them.
I did try and explain this but the answer you will just have to appeal
I don't think it would make a huge difference if you were paying through the CSA. Their calculation is basically 25% of your takehome pay for maintenance to the first 3 children, and then this amount is reduced by the number of children you are maintaining now - for 2 children, it is a 20% reduction (ie, the maintenance you pay for the 3 oldest would go down from 25% to 20%), for 3 or more children, there is a 25% reduction (so the maintenance would go down from 25% to 18.75%) so the difference would only be 1.25% of your takehome pay.
That where it is confusing, i have paid support all the time to all children but because the 2 little ones did not go through them they will not take the amount into the case and want an extra £4,000 they think i owe for the time i was single but its been paid all the time but not through them. Its still been paid now through standing order to the little 2 children's mothers bank, not through CSA
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