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sounds nuts. if you have some savings to live off, you can consider signing yourself off from work, tell CMS all this stress and grief caused you to stop working, so you cant pay anything.
Did that over 2 years ago. It’s arrears I owe. They still haven’t given me a breakdown of what I owe, they don’t have to. Like I said, anyone just beginning with cms should tread very carefully, it’s designed to suck dry the paying parent not to provide for the children, which they don’t care about. Corrupt.
they recently recalculated my payments due to overnight stays. so they sent me 2 letters in the post. each letter has a different payment amount, but both for same period. excellent lol. and they sent same nonsense to ex wife. they even sent me text stating that i dont need to call in, they will write to me. now have to call first thing monday morning 🙂
Quick update on my case... all settled although there is a 30 day cooling off period where my ex can claim the extra she gave up on for quick payment (£6000). The manager, John advised this to be 14 day, another example of poor and Unprofessional service.
I had a really nice call to advise me and whilst she was at it explained that I had further costs (penalty fines) to pay in order to remove deduction of earnings order. I agreed to pay £220, and the phone line got cut off. I had 9 missed calls when I regained reception from them! 9, I hadn’t had 9 calls from them in 4 months, in fact struggled to get hold of them yet 9 missed calls. Another example that this service is corrupt. They deliberately try to make things awkward to fine you.
Did that over 2 years ago. It’s arrears I owe. They still haven’t given me a breakdown of what I owe, they don’t have to. Like I said, anyone just beginning with cms should tread very carefully, it’s designed to suck dry the paying parent not to provide for the children, which they don’t care about. Corrupt.
right i see what you mean. taking time off work make things only worse for you in future, as you owe arrears and have to make fat back-dated payments.
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