Good Morning all, I am wondering if you can help. My partners ex has only been paying CSA for the last 2 yrs after 14yrs of none payment. (He abandonded her after finding out she was pregnant.) He got away with not supporting her mainly due to threats of violence and intimidation. I then came along 2yrs ago, reassured her and advised accordingly that many of these type of bullies never actually follow up on these threats. It is purely intimitation.As predicted, her ex, stuck his tails between his legs and started paying as soon as CSA made a claim against him. However, recently he quit his job after 20+yrs in the Police Force and alledgedly wrapped up his part-time small business which we understand he is now running a bit more, but for CIH. As such he claims that he can no longer afford to pay her CSA although he has his Police Pension. Now his son is 16 and still in full time education. He should still be paying CSA surely. Just because he quit his job, the CSA claim he can no longer pay. Can we make a claim against his pension or any other means? I am only chasing this up as my partner still fears him, and well frankly I think the guy is a bully and got away with it for far too long. He wants nothing to do with his son and we have since found out that he may also have a daughter of the same age. Meaning he got 2 women pregnant at a similar time. All in all a nasty piece of work. My question is this, is there a way we can get the CSA to enforce a payment against him or even enforce a default or similar on his credit file? Any advice welcome.

Good day all, I was in court on th 16/4/12 and given an order to pay CT at 20 a week. I've been unable to pay since before christmas and have been asked to appear again. I owe 600 pound and could pay about 250 today. Last time I missed payments i was given stern words by magistrates but allowed to continue with payments as I was ahead of where I should of been. I need to know likely outcome of next appearance? Prison? I'm due in this afternoon and thinking if I don't turn up would I get sent a later hearing? this would give me time to settle up! Thanks

I ampursuing my ex for maintenance payments and the last payment received was backin June 2012 for £5, his benefit had stopped so since then i have contacted theCSA on numerous occasions to obtain a new payment plan, they kept saying timeand time again that they are running checks to see if he is obtaining benefitsor working but nothing ever came back from benefits or HMRC so once again icontacted them this week to find out what was going on as he must have a sourceof income whether it be benefit or from wages, they advised me that they hadexplored all avenues and there was no records for them to pursue and that allcontact they had attempted to make had been ignored (letters, calls etc) due tothis they was going to put my claim on hold, i was not happy with this sodecided to research myself and find that on his twitter account since back inJune he had been added tweets such as 'up early for work' 'just on me break'etc, further delving I found his place of work so i immediately called csa toprovide them with these details but i have now lost faith in them as thesedetails should of been something they should be able to obtain via the hmrc ashe has a full time position and paying tax but yet the csa since June have comeback with nothing, is there anything else i can do to speed this case up as idont really want to wait for the csa to move on this at their usual slow pace,also i dont see/speak with the ex in question so no-way of dealing between usalone. Thanks any help will be greatly received.

Hi, we have received a letter from Northern Rail asking for an explanation for the following reason - my son turned 16 in March and travelled by train in May from Roby to Liverpool and had purchased a childs savaway by mistake (he had not used the train for about 6 months and just asked for a savaway at Roby and unwittingly accepted an under 16 ticket. At Liverpool upon showing his ticket the guard asked his age and my son told him the truth. The guard seemed to accept this and was going to issue him with an adults savaway but then decided to keep his ticket and take his name and address. The journey itself would have cost £2.10 as an adult and the childs savaway cost £2.40 so he had actually paid more than the journey would have cost. My son is in the middle of his GCSE's and is now panicking because of the wording in the letter - "non-payment of rail fare" "serious incident" failure to give satisfactory explanation will result in legal proceedings" "fines" "criminal record" etc. Should I phone them up and try and explain this or write back as they have asked, should we apologise profusely and accept a fine or is there any value in arguing the case? I don't want this to drag on any further as it is already affecting his studies. Thanks

Hi everyone, I have just spent a good few hours reading all the threads but find nothing that suits my situation. So I have loans from 98,99,00 and 01. I live abroad, Europe but non-EU. I have been deferring all my loans since they were taken out. Then it all went wrong, I informed the guys of my change of address and they never noted it. After it all went crazy and to cut a long story short i have ended up paying the arrears on a loan in small installments. They have also slapped a load of charges on for good measure. So, I guess that asking for the original loan agreement will only work for one loan and not the others, so maybe i will try. But now for my real question, I notice that many people take SLC to the small claims court in the UK. Can i do this from outside of the UK? Can they do a CCJ on me if i am outside of the UK? Its all a bit complicated now and the pressure that they put on me is getting me down whenever i have to communicate with them. I will never live in the UK again, my family are here and elsewhere, i have not even visited in the past 2 years. I am almost tempted to ignore them. Any helpful advice would be appreciated. Pete

Hi there. I have become interested in the debate surrounding the RLP company since seeing an item on it on the BBC a few weeks back. Since then I have read a lot on this forum and others, as well as the CAB advice on uncivil recovery. My main question is, I see in many of the threads on this site that those who have been contacted by the RLP are advised to not pay and simply ignore the letters and I just wonder how sound this advice is? Surely such a large company wouldn't just give up on a case and just forget about the money owed? I can not see how a company can just cut its losses and ignore the fees which they do not receive by so many of those who have not paid. Especially regarding cases where there is a true case of shoplifting, to which the police attended and the suspect admitted to the crime. To those who have had contact with the RLP and decided to ignore and not pay, have they stopped sending you letters? And how can you be sure that they won't get in contact with you a year or two down the line, making it a lot worse for you? Especially since some who have posted to this site have commented how eventually outside debt collecting companies get involved after some months of non-payment. Sorry for so many questions. I do not agree with the vast amounts of money that the demand, but I am just curious as to the success of the advice given on such sites as this. I hope you can make some things clearer for me here. Thanks very much for your time reading this. Jo.

I worked for a tech company as a software developer for 2 and a half years. On the 16th February I (along with 9 others) were placed on redundancy consultation. On the 23rd February we were made redundant, and paid 70% of our wages for January. I was told on that same day my redundancy and the outstanding wages owed to me would be paid to me on the 28th Feburary. On the 28th February some staff members (who are still with the company) were paid in full for January and February. When I contacted the company to ask why I hadn't been paid the money owed to me, I was told that the company was suffering from a short term cash flow problem, but it was owed millions by a large UK mobile network operator (and that the money owed was not disputed by the network operator), and that I would be paid in the near future. On the 4th March 2011 the company sent me an email saying an administrator had been appointed, and that he/she would be in contact with me in the near future. I was also informed by former colleagues that they have been told by the company that they would have to enter into a new employment contract with a different company to protect themselves. After not being paid in January 2011, a company meeting was held (all employees attended). At the meeting I asked two of the directors present if the company was trading insolvent. They assured me they had spoken to their lawyers and that the company was not. My questions are: 1. Can the company simply write off the money it owes me (30% of January's wages, 100% of February's wages up to and including the 23rd February, £800 redundancy entitlement) or can this liability be transferred over to the new company the employees who remain at the company are being transferred to? I heard something about a recent case in which a judge ruled that monies owed to employees who were made redundant from Company A (which was dissolved/liquidated) would be owed to those employees by Company B (a Phoenix company - same people/management from Company A) - citing "TUPE"(?) as the grounds for the ruling. 2. Is it not discrimination if the company pays some employees and not others? If it is, how can I take action against the company for doing this? 3. Can the veil of incorporation be lifted and the directors held personally liable for knowingly trading whilst insolvent (they must have known the company was (cash-flow) insolvent as the company was unable to pay creditors/staff on time). 4. How can I find out who the administrator is, and am I permitted to contact him? Any help would be really appreciated as I have not (yet) been able to secure employment elsewhere and my landlord is asking me to leave the apartment.

Hi everyone, Just some advice please. Some of you will know of my Employment Tribunal Case, but i have a question which needs an answer. If the claim is settled and agreed between the Claimant and Respondent at the Tribunal which then goes in front of the Employment Judge who oversee's what has been agreed and a date of 28 days is given by the Responent in which to pay the compensation or award. In my case the Judge directed that payment must be made no later than 28 days but if the claimant does not receive the payment i am to go straight back to court and report that no payment has been received. Now what happens if the employer does not pay up or is trying to sit this out so they won't have to pay up. What exactly would the tribunal do in such cases. Also if you had to take the ex employer to a County Court will the ex employer pay any costs in doing so. What are the options in such a scenario? There is very little i can find on this subject on the net. Thank you in advance.