Will CSA provide proof of bio father's cicumstances?

[Lasvegas]

The CSA wrote to me to say they were reducing my maintenance as bio father now had a child living with him. Can I have proof that this is the case also can they give me proof of what his average weekly income is? For all I know they could have got my X mixed up with someone with same surname or X may be lying about his circumstances.

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the child has to be his biologically surely for it to affect your payments? Dp's maintenance reduced when we had ds1 (by mutal agreement, we had overpayed for years and don't go through the csa).

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thats not fair!!!!!!!!!!

Well I might write to CSA any way. I would like to know if bio father of DD has any other natural children as slim chance of DD dating her half brother in years to come!

Strikes me that maintenance is not fair irrespective of CSA involvement. My DP pays £280 a week for his 2 children. My X pays me £42 a week for 1 child. My DD is in full time nursery so v expensive to maintain my step children are at state school and incur no childcare costs as their mum doesn't work. I pay about £400 a week to maintain my child largely because the bio father gives such a pittance (under the CSA rules). I find it impossible to understand why I have to pay so much more than bio father even tho the choice to have a DD was joint one.

The standard 15% formula from CSA is a joke as kids under 5 are a lot more expensive to keep (childcare costs) than a 15 year old child.

I'm with you on this!!

How can the CSA reduce the amount WE have to pay to his X by 25% and we have 4 under 6 years old but they want 15% of his earnings for her one child who is 9 years old, in full time education, has free school uniform, free school meals, out of school clothes bought by us and her Gparents and none of the money actually goes to my SD anyway as her mum is on income support and most of it goes to the government. It basically means that we have £100 pw discounted to bring up 4 small boys (2 of which are still babies) and have to pay £65 pw for one child. What the government doesn't take goes to her so she can sit on her arse all day while all her children are at school (3 by 3 different fathers who are ALL paying CSA and ALL having visitation) in her 3 bedroom house paid for by us and every other tax payer whilst she claims benefite gets a free education (because she is on benefits) even though she has NO intention of doing anything with her qualificaions as she will lose her benefits if she works. While I run myself ragged looking after 4 boys under 6 and two of her children sometimes (one of which isn't boilogically ny DH's but he has always bought up as his own) with no money left!!!

They manage to get all this money from the fathers who see their children and were paying the mother for them aldready as they are the good dads who don't dodge the system for fear of imprisonment and losing their homes and new families yet they get nothing or next to nothin gfrom all the crap fathers that deny the children are theirs, dodge the system and don't give a shit!!! It's THEM who should be paying NOT the good dads that try their best to do everything for ALL their children.

I think it's ridiculous that they can reduce a woman's money because the father has taken up with someone who has children by someone alse (surely those children are already being paid for by THEIR boilogical father through the CSA) and it shouldn't therefore affect the money pays YOU.

Oh yes, that is too much logic for the CSA to understand!!! (and that is coming from me, a mum who is PAYING CSA but not claiming it)