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To hate hate hate the CSA!!!

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elizadofuckall · 07/01/2013 14:33

Long story short, have had a claim ongoing since 2007 and he has never paid. I have just received a call from the CSA telling me that they have now made a NIL assessment for the ENTIRE period as he has told them that he has been living off of friends until 2011 and then went self employed and has been making a loss since then.

So living off of fresh air for the entire time and they said they cant prove any different so have made a nil assessment!!!!!

I have told them to close the case and to cease all contact with me as they enrage me more than the non payment!!!!!

Needed to vent!!!!

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flow4 · 21/01/2013 09:08

Ex owes me £25K in assessed arrears, up to the point he left the country, when they judged he wouldn't owe anything any more because he wasn't liable for UK tax. Angry

Perhaps we could try crowd-funding to bring a class action against the CSA for maladministration, kitty... Are there any ambitious, risk-taking lawyers out there who'd like a challenge?!

allgoingtoshitnow · 21/01/2013 12:59

"why don't you apply for custody? "

As a man he'd have no chance of getting it, as you well know. He just has to put up with the shit situation, or take control back and become a 'deadbead dad'.

There are plenty of RPs out there who use the CSA as a form of revenge on their exs, and the money doesn't go to the DCs. The CSA is a blunt tool and makes mistakes in both directions.

JugglingNStruggling · 21/01/2013 21:55

SoftKittyWarmKitty
applying for custody, I wouldn't stand a chance, not many blokes would win a custody battle in the uk, it would be interesting to see the stats

littlemisssarcastic · 21/01/2013 22:35

I have effectively given up with the CSA, and have also had the conversation with them about not contacting me anymore rather than feebly trying to extract any money out of xp.

My xp is a serial job hopper.
It takes the CSA approxiametely 12 weeks to trace his latest job through the HMRC, yet he is very rarely in a job more than 6 weeks.
The last time I rang them, he was working for Bob the builder, and they promised to look into it.
They called me back 4 months later to say they had written to Bob to ask for details of his pay.
I told them he no longer worked for Bob the builder, and hadn't worked for Bob for 3 months.
I explained that he had since worked for Handy Manny for a further 5 weeks, before leaving that job, and going on to work in Big Cook, Little Cook's kitchen before he got the job he was at now, working as an Imagination Mover.

They have managed to catch up with him once, at which point he said he would pay me directly, and they said 'Erm, ok.' Of course, he never did.

They can never tell me anything useful either because it always comes under the data protection act. Hmm

I honestly think the people who work at the CSA have lost the desire to nail the feckless non paying bastards, because they deal with so many and time and time again obstacles are put in their way.

I hate xp for depriving DD of financial support, but I am full of rage that the CSA can seemingly do nothing about it!!
In fact, I am so angry, I sometimes find myself laughing at their feeble attempts to get him to pay now, and that's something I thought I would never do.

There is no respect for the CSA, and no fear of the consequences of not paying.

My xp sees them as an annoying gnat..brushes them away and forgets about them. Angry

It would be easier, I'm sure, to get blood out of a stone.

toothgenie · 22/01/2013 10:10

'Perhaps we could try crowd-funding to bring a class action against the CSA for maladministration, kitty... Are there any ambitious, risk-taking lawyers out there who'd like a challenge?! '

I've often wondered if this would work. I've been through tribunal, been granted a variation due to lifestyle inconsistant with earnings. He owes over £4000. The CSA failed to get any owed money, he made himself unemployed, sold his house, has hidden all his assets, works cash in hand. Hasn't filed a tax return since 2005. Neither the Tax office or the CSA care. He pays £2.50 a week per child. This has been ongoing since 2006. They have powers to enforce NRP to pay but they don't seem willing to try, therefore the irresponsible ones get away, whilst the honest ones get penalised. The system is very unfair.

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