Csa ??????

[lormc22]

Hi every one I would like some thoughts please
Last night my husband received phone call from the child support agency his ex wife ( divorced for 10 years ) has applied for maintenance for his 16 year old son and daughter of 18 the lady on the end of the phone was really quite shocked when my husband told her his son was actually in the army and had been in 5 weeks and being paid a salary and his daughter who will be 19 in February is at college but not doing a levels or GCSE she is on a course to learn to work in a supermarket and is in fact working as far as he knows fulltime but receiving EMA he has not spoken to his daughter in over 6 years ( her chouse not his ) apparently his ex wife applied for maintenance in June but his son was living with us really from may and only going to his mothers home when he had an exam ( he only took 4) and would not go to school as he new he was joining the Army and really just waiting for a date to go . So can any one tell me if they think?
Is she still receiving family allowance to ask the CSA to get involved and will the son who is in the army be responsible to pay it back
And also we are in receipt of tax credit working and child as I have a 16 year old who is in college doing A levels my husband only gets 200 pounds a week pay so money is tight if we have to pay fine that’s the rules but I don’t know were its going to come from his ex wife is living with some one but I know she has not declared it and has not for 8 years and I know she is in receipt of benefits how long is maintenance payable for I don’t get maintenance for my son as his father knows all the loop holes why has she done this now we took her to court 10 years ago and got full paternal custody for there oldest child I guess she did not want or she would not have got her income support ?? Who knows?
Thanks just needed to talk about it to some one

[bazak1]

HI,
If your husbands ex-wife receives child benefit for her son who is in the army and the office decides it has to be paid back, then that will be HER responsibility not the sons. Child benefit is paid to the parent for the upkeep of the child, so i cant see how they could claim it back from her son.
The law about fathers and their new relationships and how much they pay gets quite tricky, and you never get the same answer twice.
visit CSA Homepage - Child Support Agency where you can do a sort of online calculation of what your husband is expected to pay.

How maintenance is calculated

They use information given to them by both parents to decide if someone has to pay child maintenance and to work out the amount of maintenance that should be paid. They may also use information from other sources, including the non-resident parent's employer or HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) — which used to be the Inland Revenue.
They work out child maintenance by applying one of four rates to the non-resident parent's income. Income is earnings, money from an occupational or personal pension, and tax credits. They use the amount of income left after things like income tax, National Insurance and any money paid into a pension scheme have been taken off. This does not apply if the pension is set up to pay off a mortgage, when only 75% of the money paid into the pension scheme is taken away from the non-resident parent's income.

The four rates they apply to the non-resident parent's income are:

• basic rate (if they have an income of £200 a week or more)
• reduced rate (if they have an income of more than £100 and less than £200 a week)
• flat rate (if they have an income of between £5 and £100 a week)
• nil rate (if they have an income of less than £5 a week).

They can then adjust the child maintenance based on:

• the number of other children who are living with the non-resident parent, who they or their partner get Child Benefit for (a regular payment made to anyone bringing up children)
• the number of children the non-resident parent needs to pay child maintenance for
• whether the child stays with the non-resident parent at least one night each week.

Changes in your family could mean that the amount of maintenance that needs to be paid might change. You should let them know if any of these things happen

• new living arrangements - if the child who child maintenance is being paid for starts spending significantly more or fewer nights with the non-resident parent
• if a new child starts living with the non-resident parent, either because they or their partner has given birth or for any other reason
• if the number of children that either parent gets child benefit for changes
• if the child who maintenance is being paid for leaves full time education.

I hope this helps.
Baz

[ODC]

Does anyone know if I can send a Subject Access Request to the CSA

[reallymadwoman]

Originally Posted by ODC

Does anyone know if I can send a S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) to the CSA

Yes, but you might not have to. I wrote and asked for all the information they had, and they did eventually supply it for free.