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Hi there,
First time on and we are currently filling in the Child Maintenance enquiry form sent from the CSA.
They want me to send my last 5 payslips as I am paid weekly. This is very unfortunate timing for me, but not the ex. I have the past 6-8 weeks been temporarily doing lots of overtime for a rushed job which my boss would probably write a letter to confirm. I count myself lucky to be able to do this because the firm is not doing too well and almost everyone is on an overtime ban apart from me (appears I am the only one bring money into the company). Last year there were quite a few redundancies and the threat of yet more is still hanging.
What I can't see as fair, if you apply for a Mortgage, they won't take into account any overtime because it's not guaranteed. Also, tax credits base their calculations out on previous years earnings from P60.
How comes the CSA CAN take into account temporary overtime and do not work their figures out on a previous years wages from a P60? It seems very unfair and surely if you were astute you could work a basic week for 5 weeks before the CSA contact you (or take holiday/sick pay so as to get maintenance calculations down?
As I understand it, the CSA will work my maintenance out including my overtime.
Am I right? Is this right and fair?
Can I appeal or get round it?
Many thanks in anticipation.
Hi There,
From memory when I filled out the forms there was a section where you could put down if the pay slips didn't show a true reflection of your monthly wage so down to infated over time or bonus payments, I woud contact CSA and see if they could work your payments out over 2 or even 3 weeks to show a true reflection of your wage.
Darren
Thanks Darren,
I have filled it in to the best of my ability and going to send my P60 also. I have written a long letter explaining a few facts such as I drive from Dorset, England to Wales every other weekend tp pick my son up and then take him back again on the Sunday which costs a small fortune in petrol, tolls etc. I just hope they will take this in to consideration, but particularly the temporary overtime scenario.
Cheers.
can you not wait a month and send your next 5 wage slips? Thats what I did I made sure I had no overtime for 2 months (I only work the overtime to make up the money I give to CSA) and submitted those wage slips, they didnt seem to mind waiting and certainly didnt chase me for them
I did wonder if we should just wait for 5 weeks of wages slips without overtime. However the letter said we needed to return documents etc by 4th October, which we only received 3 or 4 days previously, so we thought we'd best get them back to the CSA asap. :/
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