[Solved] back dated

Hi Tommy 🙂

I see you are in Scotland and have asked this question before...The only advice I can give is as has been said before, contact your MP and make an appointment to go and see him/her. Take all the paperwork with you and ask him to intervene with the CSA on your behalf.

It isnt fair and the CSA are like government funded gangsters that get away with murder! The only thing that seems to work is getting another government funded body involved to do battle for you, your MP!

You could look into taking the mother to small claims court to recoup the overpayment as I'm sure it was her responsibility to inform the CSA of any changes. She has in effect defrauded you.

Good luck 🙂

i have got my MP involved? how can the csa make me pay back dated money to them.i have payed the money they ask for.

They seem to be a law unto themselves! Have you had any feedback from your MP yet?

no reply from the MP. just a letter from the csa say that they are looking in to my case to see if i have been paying rigth amount of money?
i should have stop paying money sep 2010?

Did you make an appointment at the MP's surgery and go and see him....thats always the best way. I would call his secretary first thing monday and ask for an update. 🙂

how will it work with me paying the child support money back for the back dated money. my son is now a dad, he works? i should have stop pay sep 2010?

so how dose that work out?

I wish I had an answer for you Tommy 🙁

Hi Tommy

Thank you for your post. I am William, the Child Maintenance Options consultant. I am unable to comment on specific Child Support Agency (CSA) cases as we are separate organisations and we do not have access to any CSA case information. However, I can try and provide you with some general information about when a paying parent's responsibility to pay would cease.

Under child support legislation, regular child maintenance payments must be made until a child is 16 years old, or 20 if they are in full-time, non-advanced education (A-level or equivalent), or for as long as Child Benefit is being paid. Before 10 December 2012, the upper age limit was 19. However, if your son was 19 after this date and in full-time education, maintenance would be paid until the age of 20. In addition, if arrears have built up on a case, those arrears must still be paid, even if regular child maintenance payments have stopped.

You mentioned that you found out that you had to stop paying child maintenance two and a half years ago. Was this because your son had left full-time education? If this is the case, your son's mother would have been legally required to tell the CSA if and when your son left full time education. Once the CSA were informed of these changes, they would tell you when payments can stop. You may wish to query this with the CSA directly. To find the contact details for the department dealing with your case, you may wish to visit their website at http://www.gov.uk/child-support-agency. Alternatively, the contact details will be on any letters that you have received from the CSA.