The CSA are rubbish because.........?

Question

What is your own personal experience with this slip-shod agency?

Answer 1

Because the guys working for companies get their wages docked to make sure they pay up - ( these are the ones we read about in the newspapers who end up hanging themselves / having breakdowns coz they can`t cope ) - and the self employed guys - the ones who earn the big money - lie about their earnings and get away with paying zilch. CSA`s answer to this is " They know this man is obviously lying about how much he earns but they can`t call people liars, so they have to take his word for it as he`s shown written proof." ( he wrote it himself by the way - does his own books - and takes everybody for a ride ) - fact !

Answer 2

I was with someone that was being ripped off by the CSA. His wife had kicked him out and he was happy to pay for his kid but she didn't feel the amount he was offering was enough ( I felt it was plenty ) and so she went to the CSA there where taking over £1000 per month leaving him owing money after he was paid. The CSA even wonted to know what I was earning they said they wonted take money from me but in a way they do cos they look at the combined earnings and the dad ends up paying more. At the end of the day we where living together but we where not married so how is it fair that i should pay for his child and support his ex wife. They where always losing form and you could never speak to the same person it is a complete sham. Also they admitted to us that they where taking more money from the dads that they could find to pay for all the dads they couldn't find and to re fill the big pot of money that was empty. As a woman I feel this is very Wong at the end of the day the dads need to start up a new life I am not saying they shouldn't pay for their kids but not as much as the CSA think they should pay.

Answer 3

My ex (the father of my 2 kids) is self employed, and does his own books, so when the csa write to him about his earnings, he makes it look as though he only has a pittence to live on.
In reality, however, he can afford to have 3 horses, go to portugal 3 times a year with his girlfriend and her 2 kids, buy a brand new pc, and only eats organic food, and goes to the pub every friday and saturday night!

Dont get me wrong, i would rather have my kids everyday than do and have all the things he does, but it annoys me that while i have brought up our kids for the last 6 years, he has NEVER once given them so much as a penny!

The csa needs to be able to take a look at peoples personal and company bank accounts to see what is really going on.

The csa have told me that they know he fiddles the books, but does not have any proof, therefore they cannot do anything about it.

That leaves me and our children struggling to get by every week, with them rarely having new clothes, and having to spend as little as possible on food, just so they can have things like school uniform!

Sorry for the rambling on, but the whole situation totally rubs me up the wrong way!

Answer 4

£40 a month is rarely going to do something is it? it rather is like a kick interior the tooth. once you married him i'm guessing you knew he had luggage. Your mistake became offering any such distress quantity of money by way of fact of this she contacted CSA. And if CSA have been to calculate what your hubby is entitled to pay you will see it's going to be around £40 each and every week no longer in keeping with month.

Answer 5

OMG!! To cut a very, very long and boring story short, It took the CSA 3 years to shift themselves into finding my ex. He was then able to fake the DNA test (he got his mate to take it) and they wouldn't do a thing to help me. I have never recived a penny from him but then again, I niether want or need it now. Although I did at the time. The CSA should have been scrapped ages ago. They couldn't run a raffle.

Answer 6

I am lucky in that my ex doesnt have a problem supporting the kids we made together!
However, my brothers ex-gf reported him to the CSA (he was paying for his daughter in the beginning but stopped as she refused to let him see her and he didnt feel this was fair) and basically took a shed load of money out of his wages, of which she only got about 40% anyway!
And she got much less than he had been originally giving her in the first place.

Answer 7

mines another story about a scumbag self employed father lying about income and the csa will only do something if I can prove he's lying...this should be there job after all the goverment has agencies to investigate benefit fraud. CSA IS A JOKE

Answer 8

i agree there crap my ex hasnt payed me since oct 2006 when he lost his job (his fault)he used to pay £100 a month but now claims hes not working and has no money but he can still find cash for his car to drive,fags and drugs and his girlfriend to....
csa have said he could pay just £5 a week but he cant be bothered to do that,and every time i call them to find out whats going on they just dont have a clue. im no money grabbing person but it does come in handy each month so i can buy clothes and shoes, and at the moment im not working due to illness so im struggling at the mo and his money would help me.

Answer 9

When my husband first left, I contacted the CSA, it took them a while to find him but they did. I know get regular payments of which i wouldn't have got if i hadn't gone to them. He left me with his 3 children to live a life of what he called freedom from children. So basically i cant fault them, my children have benefited from there work. I agree though it is out of date now and they need to update there policies, and there ways of receiving money from the absent parent.

Answer 10

I know someone who works for the agency, so, personally, although I agree it needs improving, I disagree it should be closed completely, putting over 1000 people in a deprived area of the UK out of employment, including in cases where both parents in a family of four work in the agency.

I think it needs improving, but it shouldn't be the end of employment for so many people.