If dp has been paying too much csa does he get a refund?

[charliecat]

Or is that just wishful thinking?

My DP found out a few months ago that the CSA hadn't been taking into account his mortgage or the £200 a month he pays on a pension. He wrote to them and after about 8 months they decided to tell him that he had been paying about £200 a month too much for the last 2 years. They would not give him a refund but took it off what he already owed. We tried to contest it as we had lost out with interest etc. but they wouldnt have any of it! Still at least our payments have been reduced now which is something.

When dp started paying csa they took £100 a week out of £180 a week wages because they said he hadn't paid his ex a penny since they split up a year before. He had infact given her £50 a week and sahe even rang them to confirm this, but they still insisted he had a year of arrears and took £100 a week of him for a month. We had 8 week old dd1 at the time and no one gave a toss.

In the end they reduced the payments, but they still to this day insist that they owe dp nothing.

Oh and they still reckon he has arrears after 7 years of him paying them.

Same here Nutcracker. DP had paid BM cash each month until she got stroppy one day and a friend of hers said that she would get more if she contacted the CSA. The silly woman believed it, contacted the CSA and the result was DP paying a lot more a month to the CSA and BM getting less than he was paying her direct!

Hence they said he had arrears, which is what they reduced instead of giving him the money as a refund. The CSA suck!

Let's add the CSA to the Tax Credits Office on the list of agencies that need done away with or completely overhauled . . .

Ha CSA. Dp contacted them last year when he was made redundant and they 'lost' his letter. they are now saying he must pay up till November. Weve had to get our MP involved to try and get it sorted.

we are having a right gam,e

just shows it works two ways

wish their was some way that people would sort it out between theirselves wherever possible

Hello Tarantula fancy seeing you here! lol

If they took it off whatever he owes that would be good. Hes writing them a letter now.

To add to that, DP has recently written to CSA again as not only has our mortgage just gone up majorly (come to the end of 2 years fixed) but we had to re-mortgage to pay for some home improvements we had done (new bathroom, new flooring etc). The CSA have written back today saying that they are not prepared to reduce his payments unless he can provide receipts for every bit of work we have had done. The interest increase they are not prepared to pay for as our payments would be only reduced by about £10 per week and they will not change payments for £10 or less per week! Do they not understand that £40 per month saving could make a huge difference to some people? Tush!

I remeber reading somewhere that debts incurred after the child was born are not taken into consideration.
Oh well, life stops there then yeah!

I think it depends on what you mean by debts, they do consider mortgage and pensions, but no other debts, although I do believe they consider debts taken off of the BM. My DP took on all BM's loans and I think he got some grace for that but not sure!

Charliecat, my dh was owed money by the CSA and they repaid it by reducing his future payments over a couple of years. If you think he's paying too much you need to contact them asap and ask for a reassessment.

IME they will only backdate it to the date they receive the paperwork for the new assessment. DH was overpaying for months. He hadn't told them of his change in circumstances as we didn't want BM getting less money. It was only when BM was angry with dh over something and smugly phoned to say she'd "shopped him" to the CSA. She told him we were defrauding them as they didn't know we had a mortgage or a baby. They did a a reassessment and his payments went down (talk about shoot yourself in the foot), but they would only backdate it to the point he returned all his assessment papers, which was fair enough as we should have told them earlier.