csa help,

[daisy1964]

In 1993 i recieved an Interim Maintainence Assessment , this was put in place because the forms that csa sent out to me were not filled in and sent back, (through no fault of my own, 2nd wife withheld them from me due to stress related issues,) i finally received the forms in 1995 and was given a Formal Assessment based on self employed income details and this amount was £0.00

They have now written to me and said that the case was closed in 2004. Although they had reduced my payments to zero due to my income, they are now trying to claim £7715 which they state are arrears from the period 1993 to 1995 and they are saying that they sent form csa128 which stated that I still had arrears from the interim assessment, but they quote "unfortunatlely we are not able to provide you with a copy of this letter as a clerical copy is not held in our case papers" My accountant was by this time handling all the paperwork and correspondence to them and he has not got this letter in his files either, and has no recollection of anything of this nature being sent.He wrote to them on 4 seperate occasions in 1997 requesting that the Interim Maintainence Assessment be cancelled and the last letter saying "unless we hear from you to the contrary within the next seven days we will pressume that to be the case." We had no reply,until yesterday when my accountant recieved the letters saying case closed but your client will recieve contact from a debt officer regarding the arrers. Can anyone tell me what a CSA128 is, and where to go from here,..Thanks

[afcwben]

There does not appear to be any evidence that a CSA128 exists so cannot confirm what it may be. However, I am quite sure that if the CSA are using this in theor action you will have every right in a defence to request this detail from them. I would continue to dispute the arrears until proper evidence is supplied

[daisy1964]

With many thanks to you for your reply, there are so many things that do not add up on this, there is a letter that they claim to have sent on 30th Nov 1997, but in the most recent correspondence from them it states,

"but as it was sent to the wrong address it has not been taken as issued till 27th March 1998" So they admit to making a huge cock up with that one so it makes me wonder what else they have got wrong. Will keep fighting and keep you posted. thanks again.

Daisy 1964

[jdes26]

Don't pay nothing until you finally sort out

Remember you can also sar them for all your data and info with the evil CSA

[daisy1964]

jdes26, thanks you for your support, it makes me so mad about the amount of time of contact between them and us, they are not the ones worrying about it all the time. We asked them in May last year for a full breakdown of the arrears that they claim are outstanding so that we can dispute it and we are still waiting for them to reply to that request , the only evidence that they appear to talk about is this CSA128 which is not available in their files (convinient or not?) OH is, and has been self employed all his working life and at that time we had 4 children of our own to support(one of which is disabled so I couldnt work) and therefore his asseement was reduced to nil,yet they find these arrears from where?

Will keep on fighting to get answers..

Daisy1964

[daisy1964]

Further to my original post way back in January,,I have now recieved the data files i requested,(although some is impossible to read) there are many mistakes regarding the monies they say are owed,

they have the wrong phone number, wrong national insurance number on some of the paper work, wrong amount of children from second marriage, and also they have a national insurance number for a child of 8 years old!!! They claim that they have phoned many times and state that "this number does not accept incoming calls" yet go on to write about a phone converstaion to the absent parent on that same number!! There is no CSA128 form, which they stated was issued, and the gap in the correspondence between the parties is 11 years.

December 1996,letter to our solicitor states "It is hoped that with Mr ********* continued assistance,the outstanding debt will be resolved without further recourse to enforcment action, The position with the Maintenence Order will be resolved as soon as a Full Maintenence Assessment is calculated."

another form states that "A**n W*****n would like written confirmation that the accounts are correct and arrears are nil" then there is nothing for 11 years Where to go from here,i dont know,weve heard nothing from them since January of this year so could be waiting another 11 years!!!