CSA- I owe HIM

[mummystudent]

My ExP has gone to the CSA with a change in circumstances, new job etc.

Now he reckons I owe him about £480, which is fine, I put our son's money into savings as I have a high income job, and can access the funds to give back to him...

However, I'm thinking he will not transfer it into the savings account HE has for our son (his new job is less money than his old?), which would really p**s me off.

What should I do?!

What he pays now, is it more or less than the csa would officially rule he should pay?

If he pays more and you go through the csa this time then it could work out you owe him
More :(

CSA expect both PWC & NRP's to inform them of changes in circumstance with a month of the change. They can only backdate for a month.

So the most you will have to pay back is a month's worth.

As for the savings account thing - he has NO right to tell you to put it in a savings account. Spend it on whatever you choose to for your DS. Music lessons, a tutor, activities, holidays, clothes, shoes, whatever.

If YOU want to put it in a savings account, then that's fine. Only go that if it's what YOU want to do though.

Personally, I would wait for the CSA to assess what, if anything, you owe him.

My ex has never informed the CSA of his changes in circumstances over many years. This has only involved him coming on and off benefits and claiming to not have any income in between but they have only ever looked into anything if I telephone them. They have backdated changes for more than a month. This has usually only changed things from £0 to £5 a week or back again.

caffeine are you asking me or op?

op :)

Ok thought so, but then was confused lol

Tell him you'll transfer the money over to him when you get the letter from the CSA telling you he's overpaid and you owe it.

But someone also posted that they only back date a month so doubtful he's overpaid that much in a month. :)

Op is your maintenance arranged through CSA or not? It sounds like not and that it's a private agreement to me.

I wouldn't pay him back a penny personally. Unless a court ordered me to do so obviously!

Dont even contact the CSA to ask them about it. Tell him you will respond once you have something in writing from the CSA, and not before! Stick to your guns

Surely it goes from the date the change happened?

So if I ring tomorrow and tell them my ex no longer has a child living with him since a year ago would they back date that?

I phoned the csa when i found out my ex was working again & where. (he moves jobs every few months so that he doesnt have to pay). He started his new job 4 or 5 months before i found out. The csa wouldnt backdate it.

OP dont pay him anything & stop letting him dictate to you.

I used to work for the CSA and i would cringe when i had to tell PWCs that they had to repay money. FGS, the money had presumably gone on the child not champagne breakfasts and cruises!! Any decent NRP would be ashamed to take it back. Funnily enough i don't recall a single one saying no.

Also, if it comes to it plead poverty. Ask what the longest time is they will accept a deduction from your maintenance. They can deduct for a couple of years if i remember rightly so you won't pay a lump sum